Overview

• Championship leader Oscar Piastri crashed in Q3 and will start ninth, while Lando Norris clipped the wall on his final lap to line up seventh.
• Carlos Sainz secured second for Williams, with Liam Lawson third and Kimi Antonelli fourth after a stop-start session that reset the order.
• Charles Leclerc also crashed in Q3 and starts 10th, as Lewis Hamilton was eliminated in Q2 and qualified 12th after showing strong pace on Friday.
• Qualifying stoppages were triggered by incidents for Alex Albon, Nico Hulkenberg and Franco Colapinto in Q1, Oliver Bearman in Q2, then Leclerc and Piastri in Q3.
• McLaren had led FP1 and FP3 despite an FP1 kerb repair that disrupted running and coincided with fixes to Piastri’s power unit, but their damaged qualifying leaves a Sunday 1-2 title-clincher a tougher task.