Overview

• Oscar Piastri topped qualifying with a 1:08.662, edging Lando Norris for his fifth pole of 2025 and setting the fastest lap ever around Zandvoort.
• Max Verstappen qualified third, 0.263s off pole, with rookie Isack Hadjar delivering a standout fourth for Racing Bulls.
• George Russell took fifth ahead of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, with Liam Lawson eighth, Carlos Sainz ninth and Fernando Alonso 10th.
• The FIA’s new minimum-speed rule for qualifying and reconnaissance laps and an increased pit-lane speed limit to 80 km/h are in force this weekend.
• Lance Stroll crashed in Q1 and failed to set a time, leaving Aston Martin to seek stewards’ permission for him to start the race.