Overview

• The race begins at 13:00 MESZ with Max Verstappen starting first ahead of Carlos Sainz and Liam Lawson, while Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri line up seventh and ninth.
• McLaren can secure the Constructors’ Championship today, though their starting positions make an immediate clinch uncertain.
• Oscar Piastri switches to a replacement chassis after his Q3 crash but retains P9 under parc fermé rules; Franco Colapinto also takes a spare chassis and gearbox and starts 16th.
• Esteban Ocon was disqualified from qualifying after his rear wing failed the FIA deflection test and will start from the back of the grid.
• Qualifying produced six red flags, brief rain and multiple crashes, leaving Ferrari down the order with Charles Leclerc 10th and Lewis Hamilton 12th as Mercedes start fourth and fifth and Yuki Tsunoda sixth.