After a drawn-out, red-flag-interrupted first act of the night, Lando Norris finished in first place.
Carlos Sainz, who missed the previous weekend for Scuderia Ferrari, was already on the track, and he got into the car as a kind of test. There was an active but boring lap on the track, where the teams were running medium and soft tires. Mostly because the stage brought several serious mistakes: Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton tasted the gravel, George Russell made a mistake, and the suffering of Mercedes was most spectacular. However, Alexander Albon had the worst time, who “escaped” during an aggressive attack by a wheelie and slammed the Williams into the wall. The two Red Bulls also licked the gravel, while Sainz, who was trying to get out of the pits, was hit by Nico Hülkenberg. The top three places were finally closed by a trio of Lando Norris, Max Verstappen, and George Russell.
