2025 F1 Sao Paulo GP LIVE: Qualifying - Lando Norris goes for pole after Sprint win

Not a lot of time to digest that potentially pivotal São Paulo GP Sprint Race before get our heads back into the game with qualifying for Sunday's main event

Now it is time to turn attention to qualifying for the full-length São Paulo Grand Prix, which takes place on Sunday.

The drivers will be back on track in just a couple of hours time - 18.00 UK - so we'll head for a quick break and return with all the build-up before the crucial one-lap showdown kicks off

"It was a good race, Kimi did a great job and put Lando under pressure. P2 and P3 is a great result, but we need to do the same again this afternoon - qualifying is so tight and overtaking is so difficult at the moment."

"It was a fun race, a big expectation but we tried to keep the pressure on Lando. We came up just short but the wind was picking up, so it was a struggle, but it was a fun race."

[On qualifying] "I'm confident but the field is tight. I think everyone did a few mistakes but hopefully we can achieve the same result or better. 

Meanwhile, while all that was happening...

Norris took the win, scoring a maximum eight points in a race that was stopped to clear the wreckage of Piastri's McLaren (and Colapinto's Alpine) after a crash at Turn 2/3.

That increases his lead to nine points with five races (four grands prix, one sprint) remaining

Very very lucky for Albon, who happened to have run wide into Turn 1, which ultimately prevented him from being in the firing line of Bortoleto's out of control car

The Brazilian looked to be attempting a late lunge into Turn 1, but with damp patches still around, the moment he moved to the inside, it got away from him.

Massive double impact for Bortoleto, whose Sauber nearly rolls in the second hit - car is destroyed but the home hope, who was running 11th, has reported he is OK

Bortoleto's Sauber breaks away from him at the rear under braking for Turn 1, striking the inside wall before spearing right across Albon's bow before smashing into the barriers on the outside of Turn 1

Big crash for Gabriel Bortoleto into Turn 1 coming into the final lap

Norris is holding Antonelli at bay - he holds the lead through Turns 1 and 3, the two best opportunities for the Mercedes driver to make a punt for a first win

Further back, Gasly has gotten the better of Stroll for eighth place

That would be Alpine's first point in eight rounds

Norris is using all of his experience versus Antonelli to squeeze the gap back out slightly to eight tenths but the margin is swinging between them between DRS zones

Norris is clinging on through the twisty bits despite his fading soft rear tyres, but Antonelli with DRS can close right up under braking for Turn 1

Meanwhile, Leclerc has finally got by Alonso into Turn 4 for fifth place

Antonelli is now within DRS range as we enter into the final stages of this race - and that gets him right onto the McLarens tail as they come down to Turn 1 for with four laps to go

Norris reports he is struggling with the rear tyres, which coincides with Antonelli steadily reeling him back into near-DRS range.

The Italian rookie isn't out of this yet!

Alonso is holding onto fifth by the skin of his teeth, despite the present double threat from Ferrari, Leclerc ahead of Hamilton.

Stroll is clinging onto the final point just behind Hamilton, but is under pressure from Gasly, who is chasing Alpine's first point since the Belgian GP

Norris is getting on with this, the Briton staring down an open goal as he leads in a Sprint race that won't feature his main rival in the points.

Antonelli - to his credit - isn't letting him escape but he's crucially just over a second behind now.

The Italian has the measure of Russell though, 1.8s between them.

Verstappen, meanwhile, gave himself work to do when he mis-stepped through Turn 1 at the restart, ceding a plus-two second gap to Russell ahead

Norris immediately bolts to put just over a second clear of Antonelli to get out of DRS range

There have been tyre changes in the break

Norris has switched to the softs, Antonelli, Russell and Verstappen over to the mediums

Just 16 laps remaining, including those spent behind the safety car

The safety car leads the field out as we warm-up back up to a rolling restart

Norris leads Antonelli, Russell, Verstappen and Alonso