Overview

• Red Bull’s Max Verstappen secured pole with a 1:24.892 lap, edging out McLaren pair Oscar Piastri (+0.103s) and Lando Norris (+0.118s).
• Oscar Piastri arrives on the front row leading the drivers’ championship by 15 points over Norris and holding a 61-point cushion on Verstappen.
• Ferrari signalled its resurgence in practice as Lewis Hamilton topped FP1 and Charles Leclerc led FP3 ahead of qualifying.
• McLaren underlined season-long consistency when Lando Norris set the fastest time in FP2 on Silverstone’s high-speed layout.
• Mercedes’s George Russell qualified fourth and Hamilton fifth, with grid penalties set to push Kimi Antonelli and Oliver Bearman further down the order.