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2025 Formula 1 Italian GP
Sep 4, 2025 to Sep 7, 2025
| Autodromo Nazionale Monza, IT
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F1 Italian GP live commentary and updates – FP3
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07:38:45 am
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THAT'S IT FROM FP3
We'll be back for what promises to be a fraught qualifying session, given the narrow gaps throughout the field. Expect many gripes about traffic, and perhaps still more bleeped-out Anglo-Saxon.
07:37:30 am
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Esteban Ocon ends the session P20 but is less than a second off Lando Norris's P1 time. Extraordinary scenes at the temple of speed.
Esteban Ocon, Haas F1 Team, Oliver Bearman, Haas F1 Team
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07:35:55 am
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Fascinatingly, Gabriel Bortoleto finishes the session on 1m19.558s – P6, splitting George Russell and Lewis Hamilton!
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07:34:13 am
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Norris can't improve on this lap. Piastri had posted a quicker lap than his previous one – 1m19.496s – but he also doesn't improve at this final time of asking. But – it is he! – Charles Leclerc does, splitting the two McLarens with a 1m19.352s. That's 0.021s.
Verstappen's last run was 1m19.498s, just a couple of milliseconds off Piastri.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari
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07:30:45 am
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Piastri also out on used softs and it looks like he barely made it across the line before the clock ran down.
07:29:47 am
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Norris also out again, looks like used softs.
07:29:19 am
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Improvements for both Alpines but they're still propping up the order – remarkably, P1 to P20 are currently separated by less than a second.
07:28:10 am
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Russell heads back out on used softs, as does Max Verstappen – who, we should note, is currently P3 after doing a 1m19.513s on his first quali sim. that was just 0.182s off Norris.
07:27:00 am
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1m19.598s for Lewis Hamilton. P6 as we type, and the best part of two tenths faster than his Ferrari team-mate.
07:26:21 am
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1m19.794s for Leclerc – P9 so far. Disappointing, perhaps, but he got a bit greedy at Lesmo 2 and had to catch the ensuing 'moment'.
07:25:19 am
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1m19.861s for Antonelli, that's P10 at the moment – 0.530s off Norris and a little under four tenths off his team-mate, whose second push lap was good for 1m19.515s.
07:23:47 am
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Antonelli also rolling on new softs, interrestingly, he has completed his entire programme this session on that compound – including a 10-lap long run!
Hopefully this push lap will put him in a happy cap-tossing place.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes
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07:22:16 am
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Hamilton and Leclerc now emerging from the pits on softs.
07:21:41 am
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Norris back out on used softs, likely the same set he used to set his P1 time from a few moments ago.
07:20:55 am
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Ditto Colapinto. At P19 and P20, the Alpines have a mountain to climb...
07:20:28 am
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Gasly also going out on softs now after doing all his running so far on hards.
07:19:07 am
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Tsunoda also lapping on softs but he's already done two laps on them and hasn't gone for a push yet.
07:18:34 am
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Verstappen now going out on new softs. We have yet to see what the Ferraris can do on that compound today; Hamilton and Leclerc were last seen on mediums.
07:17:32 am
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George Russell goes P4 with a 1m19.637s - 0.306s off Norris. We remind you of George's comment yesterday that ordinarily that would be good for P4-ish... here not so much.
07:16:39 am
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Liam Lawson's 1m20.132s is over five tenths off his team-mate. Looks like he had a whoopsie at the exit of Ascari and dipped his outside wheels in the gravel.
07:15:33 am
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FIRST BLOOD TO NORRIS
1m19.331s for Lando Norris, 1m19.578s for Oscar Piastri as the McLarens bolt on the softs and show everone who's boss.
Gabriel Bortoleto briefly P3 for Sauber with a 1m19.645s before Isack Hadjar posts a 1m19.603s.
Still both over two tenths off the papaya posse.
07:14:02 am
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We're into quali sims now as the regular frontrunners go out on softs.
07:11:46 am
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TV replays show some 'afters' between Max Verstappen and Esteban Ocon following that earlier incident. Not quite as big in terms of 'afters' as when London Irish hooker David Paice and Gloucester lock Jim Hamilton came to blows after being yellow carded in a 2012 Premiership Rugby match, but still...
Looks like Verstappen not-quite-brake-tested Ocon into the second chicane, thereby getting the last word in. Well done.
07:07:21 am
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Hamilton does a 1m19.929s on his first push lap on those used mediums. P2 and just 0.241s off Verstappen's soft-tyre lap.
Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari
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07:04:44 am
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Both Ferraris back out on used mediums. It looks like Hamilton is going for a push lap because he's purple in sector one.
07:03:53 am
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NEVER MIND THE BOLLARDS
Isack Hadjar under investigation for not going the right way around the bollard after overshooting the braking area at the second chicane.
07:03:07 am
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Albon wasn't on an in-lap – must have just been cooling those softs for another push. He improves to 1m20.105s.
Alexander Albon, Williams
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07:01:45 am
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FAIRIES HAVE BEEN KILLED
Harsh words from the Red Bull cockpit as Max Verstappen overtakes Esteban Ocon into Turn 1, runs too deep, and Ocon briefly repasses him before Max gets the better drive out of the corner.
Verstappen then kills some fairies by deploying some prime Anglo-Saxon (or even Old Norse): "He's such a ****"
What do we think, readers? A word which rhymes with the surname of a 1970s world champ?
06:58:43 am
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Russell is back out, albeit on a used set of softs. Most of the cars circulating on track now are doing long runs of some stripe or other. Just Verstappen and Albon also on softs, and they're on in-laps. Albon's fastest on that compound was 1m20.468s.
06:56:55 am
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Verstappen is first into the 19s – 1m19.688s, on softs.
That's still just 0.366s quicker than Leclerc's time on mediums, mid-way through a long run, though. Leclerc did nine laps on those mediums.
06:54:47 am
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Antonelli's team-mate George Russell puts in a 1m20.736s on the softs. He could have been compromised by traffic on that lap since he had to pass Norris, Ocon and Bortoleto.
Norris is on a long run on hards, by the way, hence his current placing of P12.
06:52:42 am
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Antonelli has just done a 1m20.626s on softs , which is not a great deal to write home about compared with Verstappen's time.
06:51:50 am
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Make that P5, as Charles Leclerc does a 1m20.054s to go P2. That was his fifth lap on the mediums on which he's doing a long run.
06:50:54 am
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VERSTAPPEN GOES TOP
1m20.040s for Max. He's on softs, though. Isack Hadjar's soft-tyre lap was 1m20.620s, by the way, currently good for P4.
06:49:15 am
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Tsunoda turns in a 1m20.775 on his fifth lap on those hards. Lewis Hamilton is in the early stages of a long run on mediums and has clocked a 1m20.953s to go P2 – no, make that P3 as Oscar Piastri clocks a 1m20.639. He's five laps into a run on hards.
06:47:17 am
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Sainz and Bearman have both overshot at Turn 1 and bumped over the run-off. Carlos thumbs through his racing driver's book of excuses and radios the team to say he thinks there's a tailwind into that corner.
06:46:12 am
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Hulkenberg is back out. Our widget indicates he is on used mediums; whether this is the set he's just put a lap on, or one from yesterday, is unknown at this end since our software is not quite up to that level of granular detail.
Nico Hulkenberg, Sauber
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06:43:52 am
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Hadjar has ditched his hards after a lap – scrubber! – and is heading back out on softs, so that might be interesting. Alex Albon and Kimi Antonelli now also circulating on softs.
06:42:47 am
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Tsunoda fastest so far, but it's a modest 1m21.824s. He's four laps into a long run on the hards.
Yuki Tsunoda, Red Bull Racing
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06:39:30 am
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Yes, Stroll and Alonso have parked up, as has Hulkenberg after a single lap. Tyre scrubbery; our data widget reveals both Aston drivers have also completed a lap on hards.
Perhaps what we need at the beginning of this session is Richard E Grant to repise his role in Withnail & I, lean out of the window of a decrepid old Jaguar, and yell "Scrubbers! Scrubbers!"
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