McLaren’s Oscar Piastri beat title rival Lando Norris to top spot in the final practice session for the Hungarian Grand Prix, with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc third almost four tenths of a second adrift of top spot. 

The session got off to a slow start but after 10 minutes, Alpine’s Franco Colapinto posted the first lap of the morning with a lap of 1:18.006. Yuki Tsunoda eased past that with a time Medium-tyre time of 1:17.022 and as the track began to come towards drivers, the Japanese driver’s Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen moved to the top of the order with a time of 1:16.547 set on Softs tyres. Leclerc' then bypassed that time with a lap of 1:16.406 before George Russell went 0.094s faster. Piastri was on track on the red-banded tyres, however, and the Australian stopped the clock at 1:16.240 to move to P1. 

Verstappen then went for a second attempt and went clear in P1 with a lap of 1:16.202. Leclerc looked set to beat that time by a margin but an error at Turn 12 cost the Ferrari driver. However, despite dipping a wheel off track he still moved ahead of the Dutchman by 0.065s. Piastri had an answer to that, however, and he moved ahead on 1:15.871. 

With 15 minutes left in the session, Piastri went out on fresh Softs for a final attempt, and showing blistering pace, he posted a lap of 1:14.916 to go almost 0.8s clear of the next fastest time, which had just been posted by Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton. Norris then posted his lap of 1:14.948 to take P2 just three hundredths of a second off his team-mate. 

Leclerc was the only driver to manage to close the huge gap to the McLarens and his 1:15.315 left him 0.4s off the pace. 

Behind them, Hamilton held on to fourth 0.768 off Piastri, while Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli took fifth with his final flyer of 1:15.745.

Fernando Alonso was sixth for Aston ahead of team-mate Lance Stroll and the second Mercedes of George Russell and the top 10 order was rounded out by the Kick Sauber pair of Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hülkenberg. 

Oliver Bearman was 11th for Haas and Verstappen could only manage 12th as Red Bull continued to struggle. 

2025 FIA Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix – Free Practice 3
1 Oscar Piastri McLaren/Mercedes 1:14.916 17 210.523
2 Lando Norris McLaren/Mercedes 1:14.948 0.032 20 210.433
3 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:15.315 0.399 17 209.408
4 Lewis Hamilton Ferrari 1:15.684 0.768 18 208.387
5 Kimi Antonelli Mercedes 1:15.745 0.829 18 208.219
6 Fernando Alonso Aston Martin/Mercedes 1:15.794 0.878 18 208.085
7 Lance Stroll Aston Martin/Mercedes 1:15.828 0.912 21 207.991
8 George Russell Mercedes 1:15.840 0.924 17 207.958
9 Gabriel Bortoleto Sauber/Ferrari 1:15.978 1.062 19 207.581
10 Nico Hülkenberg Sauber/Ferrari 1:16.025 1.109 21 207.452
11 Oliver Bearman Haas/Ferrari 1:16.127 1.211 17 207.174
12 Max Verstappen Red Bull/Honda RBPT 1:16.162 1.246 19 207.079
13 Franco Colapinto Alpine/Renault 1:16.247 1.331 21 206.848
14 Liam Lawson Racing Bulls/Honda RBPT 1:16.371 1.455 21 206.512
15 Carlos Sainz Williams/Mercedes 1:16.442 1.526 19 206.321
16 Alexander Albon Williams/Mercedes 1:16.530 1.614 20 206.083
17 Esteban Ocon Haas/Ferrari 1:16.531 1.615 18 206.081
18 Pierre Gasly Alpine/Renault 1:16.570 1.654 22 205.976
19 Yuki Tsunoda Red Bull/Honda RBPT 1:16.878 1.962 19 205.151
20 Isack Hadjar Racing Bulls/Honda RBPT 1:16.956 2.040 18 204.943