Overview
- Andrea Kimi Antonelli qualified fourth, Lando Norris fifth, with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc set to start sixth and seventh.
- Stewards announced post-qualifying reviews for possible yellow-flag infringements involving Gabriel Bortoleto, Nico Hülkenberg and Yuki Tsunoda, with George Russell cleared during the session.
- A separate technical examination targets the Williams rear wing DRS mechanism on the cars of Alexander Albon and Carlos Sainz.
- Max Verstappen set the FP3 benchmark ahead of qualifying, with the top five separated by just 0.089 seconds.
- Liam Lawson crashed for the second time this weekend in FP3, triggering a red flag as disrupted practice running left teams with limited long‑run data and added strategic uncertainty.