Hometown hero Oscar Piastri has delivered a strong lap, but pole-sitter hopeful George Russell is still leading the pack.

However, he’s being chased by Piastri with a 0.157 second gap between them.

For a minute, it looked like Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso was going to make it to Q2, but he was usurped by Alpine’s Franco Colapinto.

The amazing thing about that Q1 session is that Kimi Antonelli, who had pieces of his car strewn all over the track after his crash in practice, has now advanced into the next qualifying session – his Mercedes mechanics having enough time to fix his car. What scenes.