Lando Norris has topped third apply at F1's Italian GP, heading Ferrari hero Charles Leclerc and team-mate Oscar Piastri forward of a pivotal qualifying session at Monza.
Norris, who's trying to begin chipping away at Piastri's 34-point championship chief, bested his team-mate by lower than two tenths at Monza's iconic Temple of Velocity, with a late effort from Leclerc simply 0.021s shy of the Briton.
Crimson Bull's Yuki Tsunoda led the early operating on arduous tyres as all three Pirelli compounds noticed motion throughout a wide range of run plans.
After 25 minutes Verstappen dipped under the 1m20 barrier with a 1m19.688s on softs, the primary man to go sooner than Norris' main FP2 time on Friday.
It took till the ultimate 20 minutes for pre-event favorite McLaren to start out exhibiting its hand, with Norris vaulting to the highest of the desk courtesy of a 1m19.331s.
That was a useful quarter of a second sooner than championship main team-mate Piastri, who set a 1m19.578s lap, carefully adopted by Racing Bulls man Isack Hadjar after one other promising exhibiting for the French junior.
Piastri discovered extra time on his second soft-tyre run with a 1m19.496s to scale back the deficit to Norris to 0.167s, with the McLaren pair as soon as once more rising because the favourites for pole in a while Saturday.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari
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However as was the case in 2024, Ferrari has emerged as a menace as its dwelling race as Leclerc overcame a number of oversteer scares to take second away from Piastri on the finish, his 1m19.35s lap simply 0.021s shy of Norris.
Returning to the scene of Crimson Bull's worst performances of 2024, reigning world champion Max Verstappen was an encouraging fourth within the RB21 simply 0.002s off Piastri.
The Dutchman's lap additional underlined crew advisor Helmut Marko's optimism that the squad can truly be within the combine with the McLarens this weekend.
Fifth-placed Mercedes driver George Russell wasn't far again both, delivery simply two tenths to Norris, forward of what's shaping as much as be a qualifying session determined by minor particulars.
Sauber was the shock package deal of FP3 with rookie Gabriel Bortoleto taking sixth forward of the second Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton, with Racing Bulls man Hadjar snatching eighth.
Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli recovered from his early FP2 exit with a tweaked run plan to cowl all his bases, and the Italian's soft-tyre run left him ninth forward of Williams driver Alex Albon.
Qualifying for the 2025 Italian Grand Prix follows at 16:00 native time.
F1 Italian GP – FP3 outcomes
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