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Here’s the report on an emphatic one-two for McLaren in the final practice session.
FP3 has finished and Lando Norris is fastest. Report to follow.
Another traffic incident as Antonelli is held up by Stroll and Tsunoda.
It’s not going well for Alpine. Their drivers are at the bottom of the times and Colapinto just held Gasly up in the final corner.
Hamilton went too deep in the Hugenholzbocht and flirted with the barrier. He hasn’t done a representative time on his softs.
The stewards will investigate the Russell-Alonso incident after the session.
The Ferrari drivers do their runs with six minutes to go. Leclerc is only sixth, behind Verstappen.
Another strong lap from Sainz in the Williams, he’s gone fourth ahead of Verstappen.
An alarming near-miss between Russell and Alonso at the pit lane entrance. Russell was heading to the pits, Alonso moved to pass him on the right at speed and had to back out to avoid a crash.
Piastri is over two tenths of a second slower than his team mate. Verstappen goes for a lap on softs but is almost a second slower. Russell pushes him down to fourth but the Mercedes driver is eight tenths of a second off Norris.
With a quarter of an hour to go Norris is turning the timing screen purple again, fastest in all three sectors on softs, setting a 1’08.972 – that’s less than a tenth of a second off the track record, held by Verstappen.
Those improvement have left Verstappen down in eighth. His team mate Yuki Tsunoda goes 12th, the pair separated by three tenths of a second.
Leclerc hasn’t happy this weekend in the Ferrari, he goes fifth with that lap but remains a few hundredths of a second behind team mate Hamilton.
A decent lap for Carlos Sainz Jnr on mediums puts him fifth, half a second off Piastri.
Piastri goes quickest of anyone in the first sector, can’t match Norris in the middle sector but pips him at the line with a 1’10.120, 0.142s up.
An impressive lap from Bearman now who’s done a 1’10.626 on hards for fourth place ahead of Verstappen.
Lewis Hamilton takes third off Verstappen with a 1’10.566. He spun in each of yesterday’s sessions but has kept the Ferrari pointing the right way so far.
Verstappen improves to third after pitting to have his front wing angle reduced slightly.
Verstappen encouragingly describes his car as “not too bad” after that lap.
Piastri slots into second again, seven hundredths of a second off Norris, much as they were yesterday.
Verstappen, on mediums, looks good in the first sector, six-thousandths up on Norris, then trails sparks through Scheivlak and loses over three tenths in the middle of the lap where he struggled yesterday. At the line he’s 0.760s off Norris.
Lando Norris on-track now, he beats Alonso’s times in all three sectors and plants the McLaren on top with a 1’10.282, eight tenths of a second up on the Aston Martin. His team mate Oscar Piastri is about to start a lap and Max Verstappen is on-track too.
Antonelli takes the top spot with a 1’11.187, six-tenths up on Stroll, on his mediums. But Alonso takes a tenth of a second off that to go top with a 1’11.082. That’s still well over a second off his best time from yesterday.
Alonso is also out on the softs. Stroll produces a 1’11.854 which isn’t quicker than his best time from first practice but put him a tenth of a second ahead of Bortoleto.
Stroll is out on a set of soft tyres now, presumably making up for lost time yesterday. Expect to see the Aston Martin at the top of the times shortly.
Bortoleto continues to head the times, he’s now down to a 1’12.014. Antonelli just four hundredths of a second off that.
Gabriel Bortoleto gets down to a 1’12.966, leading the times, 1.6s off his best from yesterday.
Hadjar pits, he has a new power unit in his Racing Bulls after the problem which struck him in second practice.
Antonelli goes 2.6 seconds off his best time from yesterday on his first lap so the track’s not miles off.
Antonelli has a set of mediums on his Mercedes. Several other drivers are also lapping on slicks, preferring the hard rubber. Hadjar, Stroll, Oliver Bearman and Alexander Albon on intermediates.
The McLaren drivers join the track along with Lance Stroll in his repaired Aston Martin plus Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who also missed a chunk of running yesterday. The Sauber drivers are lapping too – they are in much better shape than they were at this track last year, where they were slowest in qualifying.
Isack Hadjar breaks the silence in his Racing Bulls. The track condition looks decent but he’s taken a set of intermediates to be on the safe side.
Last year, in conditions not unlike these, Logan Sargeant put a wheel onto a damp kerb at the exit of Hugenholzbocht and crashed heavily, wrecking his Williams. The team dropped him before the next race.
Final practice is go at Zandvoort but no one is heading out onto the damp track just yet.
The track is damp following earlier rain. A sharp shower just passed to the north of the track but the radar is otherwise clear for the time being so it should dry out during the session.
Lando Norris was quickest in both sessions yesterday but it remains to be seen who will be McLaren’s closest rivals. Fernando Alonso was less than a tenth of a second behind in his Aston Martin, and they qualified strongly in Hungary just before the summer break. However a red flags and other disruptions during second practice yesterday meant we didn’t get a full read on how competitive the full field is.
Third practice for the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix is coming up next.