F1 Imola GP 2025 LIVE: Race updates and results – UK Times

Dreams of an Alex Albon podium slip away as Oscar Piastri comfortably gets the move done at the end of the main straight!

Piastri back into the top-3 – but is 13 seconds behind his teammate Norris.

Hamilton gets another pass done, this time on Hadjar, at the first chicane!

Engineer: “P5, great job.”

Hamilton: “Yeah I had to use a lot of tyres to get past those two.”

Hamilton surges down the outside of the first chicane to pass home hero Antonelli and take sixth place!

At the front, Verstappen’s lead to Norris has gone down slightly to 18 seconds…

This is a dream for those yet to stop!

Esteban Ocon has stopped on the grass on the exit of turn 6!

Verstappen pits – 2.3 seconds – and comes out with a 21-second lead to Piastri!

The Australian up to P4 with a move down the main straight and into the first chicane!

Alex Albon, in third, is seven seconds down the road.

1-10: Verstappen, Norris, Albon, Piastri, Hadjar, Antonelli, Hamilton, Leclerc, Hulkenberg, Bearman

Piastri is slowly but surely making his way through the pack… but it’s killing his tyres and Verstappen has a 30-plus second lead to the Australian.

Piastri gets past Hamilton now… Antonelli soon follows.

Super move from Piastri, around the outside of the first chicane to get ahead of Verstappen’s teammate!

Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton is now sixth but is yet to pit.

Top-10: Verstappen, Norris, Albon, Hadjar, Antonelli, Hamilton, Hulkenberg, Piastri, Colapinto, Bearman

Leclerc P12; Russell P13.