Summary

  • Lando Norris on pole as part of McLaren one-two, Max Verstappen only seventh

  • George Russell third for Mercedes, ahead of Ferrari pair Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, Lewis Hamilton sixth

  • Verstappen leads drivers’ championship by 70 points but past five races won by McLaren or Mercedes

Live Reporting

Lorraine McKenna

  1. Jennie Gow
    F1 pit-lane reporter

    Max Verstappen was reporting understeer and he started the message and kept going, it was every corner he came to he had problems, he's not happy with his car at the moment.

  2. Team radio - Leclerc

    "The car as not turning at all... again!"

  3. Charles LeclercReuters

    Charles Leclerc wants to bump his new Ferrari team-mate for next season off the top spot with his latest run. The Ferrari driver is on fresh softs, like Lewis Hamilton was, but the Monegasque can only go seventh on the timesheets.

    He's straight on the phone to tell his pit wall the car is not behaving nicely...

  4. Drop zone

    Danny RicciardoReuters

    11. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)

    12. Kevin Magnussen (Haas)

    13. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)

    14. Esteban Ocon (Alpine)

    15. Daniel Ricciardo (RB)

  5. Jennie Gow
    F1 pit-lane reporter

    Norris and Piastri are both on new tyres - everyone else at the moment, apart from Verstappen, are on used [tyres].

  6. Hamilton goes fastest

    Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are on an out lap, as Lewis Hamilton and George Russell are staking their first claim for the Q2 crown.

    Russell shoots to fifth place behind Max Verstappen but Hamilton blasts his way ahead of Lando Norris with a 1:19.641.

  7. Could Ferrari scupper McLaren?

    Harry Benjamin
    BBC F1 Commentator

    A problem McLaren will have is even if they want to evoke a hierarchy here, they can only do that if they are outright the fastest - and at the moment, if they've also got to battle with the Ferraris, then they are not collecting the points that they need.

    Ferrari will take points off them, which is fundamentally going to diminish Norris and Piastri's hypothetical title charge.

  8. Norris and Piastri setting pace

    Lando NorrisReuters

    The McLaren is a rocket ship, but Red Bull are back in the mix.

    Max Verstappen puts in a 1:19.874 to go top of the timesheets, but that's wiped out by Australian Oscar Piastri and then Briton Lando Norris.

    The gap between the two papaya team-mates is 0.081 seconds.

  9. Carlos Sainz is quickest in the first sector, while Charles Leclerc is rapid in the middle sector.

    Spaniard Sainz goes to the top with a 1:20.328 but Monegasque Leclerc is able to beat that marker by 0.032 seconds.

    The Haas of Nico Hulkenberg slots into the top three behind the two Ferraris.

  10. The soft tyres are bolted on across the field once again as the two Ferraris prepare for their first flying laps.

  11. Go! Go! Go!

    Max Verstappen was sixth in Q1.

    Lando Norris was quickest with a time of 1:19.911.

    Q2 is now ready for cars.

    Red BullsReuters

  12. Harry Benjamin
    BBC F1 Commentator

    There's something not going well for Verstappen in the Red Bull right now and it's not a quick fix.

  13. Abbi Pulling
    F1 Academy championship leader on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It's so close at the top, Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri in second and third were basically on identical times, two thousandths of a second is the difference and that's only Q1. Q3 is going to get pretty intense for the top spot.

  14. The marshals are out with brooms from the 1900s, trying to clear the track of its gravely debris.

    Q2 start will start at 15:29 BST.

  15. The team radios at the end of that session are full of angry drivers. Zhou Guanyu bemoans the amount of drivers going off track ahead of him, while Kevin Magnussen lets out a "oh my god, man!" after his knockout.

    Over at Alpine, Esteban Ocon, who is safely through, was having a heated exchange with his engineer about the traffic at Monza.

  16. Message from race control: "Start of Q2 will be delayed as marshals are removing gravel on track in multiple areas".

  17. Abbi Pulling
    F1 Academy championship leader on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    What a dramatic end to Q1 there where we've unfortunately lost Colapinto, he was fast all weekend and I think he had the capability to get to Q2 but that big moment - he almost ended up in the wall if he hadn't managed to save it.

  18. Williams debutant Franco Colapinto made a mistake on his final run and was unable to save himself from a Q1 elimination.

  19. Out in Q1

    16. Yuki Tsunoda (RB)

    17. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)

    18. Franco Colapinto (Williams)

    19. Valtteri Bottas (Sauber)

    20. Zhou Guanyu (Sauber)

  20. Team radio - Hamilton

    "My seat is still running very hot."

    Lewis HamiltonReuters