Overview

• Max Verstappen delivered a 1:18.792 on his final Q3 run to beat Lando Norris by 0.077 seconds, with Oscar Piastri third.
• The pole lap averaged 264.681 km/h, eclipsing Lewis Hamilton’s 2020 Monza benchmark for the fastest lap ever recorded in F1.
• McLaren start second and third, with championship leader Piastri maintaining a 34-point advantage over Norris heading into Sunday.
• Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc qualified fourth; Hamilton qualified fifth but serves a five-place grid drop from the Dutch GP to start 10th.
• Lando Norris narrowly escaped Q2 elimination before rebounding to the front row, while Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar will start from the pit lane after a power-unit change.