Austin 2026 Q3 checkered flag post-notes: Ferraris, who were managing decent pace up to Q2, dropping off here again - though we've seen this a lot this season, especially with Mercedes rising. This time falling behind RBR too which is an issue, and we've seen bits of that after the summer break. Still hard to understand why they pulled out an extra set of new softs in Q2 - well, whatever. The real problem is McLaren... Norris's final Q3 lap wasn't even that great, and then he lost it to track limits anyway. But what can you do, the race is tomorrow and they really need to nail it then.