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Norris leads the way as practice ends but expect a close and record-breaking qualifying session in just over three hours’ time. Here’s the report on practice.
Leclerc almost snatched the fastest time off Norris at the end of the session but ends up two hundredths of a second away.
Piastri goes second, 0.165s off his team mate, while Hamilton does Ferrari’s best time for sixth, 0.267s off. Barely half a second covers the top 10.
Leclerc comes very close to losing control of his Ferrari at the exit of Lesmo 2. They have not looked as strong in this session – has the enforced change in tyre pressure created some handling problems for them?
Fernando Alonso splits the Williams pair in ninth, and now has Andrea Kimi Antonelli for company in 10th, as the Mercedes driver matches his time to within a thousandth of a second.
Bortoleto now goes third in the Sauber, just two tenths off Norris. Carlos Sainz Jnr moves up to eighth, a few hundredths off his team mate.
Verstappen splits the McLarens with a 1’19.513 for second.
A flurry of quick laps have relegated Verstappen to sixth. Hadjar is now third ahead of George Russell and Gabriel Bortoleto – the latter doing a very impressive job in his Sauber.
That time by Norris is half a second faster than his best from yesterday and half a second off the all-time record for Monza.
McLaren switch to softs and Norris jumps to the top with a 1’19.331. Piastri backs him up in second but is almost a quarter of a second slower.
Isack Hadjar is under investigation for rejoining the track incorrectly after going off at the Roggia chicane.
Lewis Hamilton goes second on his mediums, 0.241 seconds off Verstappen who has been fastest pretty much since he left the pits.
Verstappen sets the fastest time of the weekend so far with a 1’19.688 on softs.
Charles Leclerc goes a hundredth of a second off Verstappen on mediums.
Oscar Piastri briefly takes the top time off Tsunoda, who responds immediately with a 1’20.462. But Verstappen beats the two hard-shod drivers with a 1’20.040 on softs. That’s fractionally quicker than his best time from yesterday.
Tsunoda remains quickest on hards but now Max Verstappen has joined the track on softs. Every driver had six sets of softs left after practice yesterday except for Alexander Albon, who returned an extra set of his harder tyres and has seven sets of softs.
Carlos Sainz Jnr does just that now, cutting across the small gravel strip at the chicane. “I think it’s a tailwind,” he says.
Mercedes warn Andrea Kimi Antonelli that a lot of people are going off at the Rettifilo.
Just three drivers have set times so far. Yuki Tsunoda is fastest on a 1’20.775 on hard tyres.
Final practice is go at Monza.
Lando Norris lapped within one second of the all-time track record at Monza yesterday. If that time is beaten today – Lewis Hamilton’s 1’18.887 from 2020 – F1 will have a new record for the fastest average lap speed ever seen.
McLaren were fastest yesterday but Ferrari looked quick and Williams are clearly having a strong weekend as well. But expect Red Bull and Mercedes to show more pace today.
There’s been a potentially significant change overnight as Pirelli has increased the minimum permitted pressures for front tyres by 1psi. This session will give a indication whether any teams will be particularly disadvantaged by the need to run them at 26.5psi.
Third practice for the 2025 Italian Grand Prix is coming up next.