2025 F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix Qualifying: As it happened - Three poles in a row for Lando Norris

Replays show Piastri ran deep into Turn 11 after encountering a Racing Bulls on his inside just moments after Leclerc had run off

Meanwhile, Verstappen is yet again a lingering threat right there alongside Norris going into Saturday's race, while Piastri has a bit more to consider from a less than optimal provisional fifth place

Shout out to Lawson in sixth place too, another strong performance by Racing Bulls to get both cars deep into the top ten

Impressive performance by Sainz in third after his Williams team-mate Albon was dumped out in Q1

However, the Spaniard might be in line for a grid penalty for a Q1 infraction, which will be good news for Piastri as it could move him from Row 3 to Row 2

Massive final effort for Norris, despite losing a big chunk of time with that slide coming onto the final stretch.

Verstappen qualifies second, with Sainz and Russell making up row two

Piastri? Compromised by yellow flags on his final lap (for Leclerc, again), leaving him fifth

Norris is flying, almost a second clear after two sectors

Russell goes fourth

Here we go, the drivers are on their final laps

Sainz goes quickest, for a moment before Verstappen goes quicker

Piastri narrows the gap but can't better Norris' time

McLaren 1-2, followed by Verstappen, Sainz and Lawson - 1min 30secs to go

Norris usurps Piastri by seven tenths of a second to move to the top of the timesheets with 2mins to go

With five minutes to go, Piastri leads Sainz, Norris, Lawson and Verstappen

Leclerc has yet another off-track moment on the brakes into Turn 11 from that super long straight

Piastri moves top from Norris

First cycle of laps are mostly in and it is Sainz who goes quickest early on from Hadjar, Leclerc and Lawson

Very fine margins for error for the drivers in this session on the inters

There is a dry(ish) line forming, or at least, a line less wet than others. But it means the drivers will need to stay in the confines of a slender racing line to get the best from the tyres - something they haven't been doing all that well in this session so far

Good effort from Pierre Gasly to make it through to Q3, maintaining his run of strong qualifying efforts at Vegas since we arrived in 2023.

Fourth in 2023, third in 2024 and top ten again in 2025

Quite stealthily, Carlos Sainz is into Q3 in the Williams, but is under investigation for an unsafe return to circuit after a spin in Q1 that impeded Lance Stroll. A penalty is likely on the way

Here is the top ten that will fight it out for a potentially very open pole position battle...

1- Norris

2- Piastri

3- Verstappen

4- Russell

5- Leclerc

6- Hadjar

7- Lawson

8- Alonso

9- Gasly

10- Sainz

Big effort from Gasly long after the flag fell as he drags his Alpine back into the top ten at the final time of asking

That demotes Hulkenberg, who joins Stroll - who didn't go quicker on the Inters - a pair of Haas' and Colapinto in calling an early end to their Friday nights.

Russell was quickest again in Q2 from Hadjar