F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

The 2025 Formula 1 season presents 30 opportunities to compare drivers against their team-mates at full tilt over one lap - 24 grand prix qualifying sessions and six sprint qualifyings.

Our team-by-team breakdown of the qualifying match-ups below, featuring a head-to-head comparison, an average of the gaps taken from the last representative segment in qualifying that both relevant drivers took part in - and a median (the middle value in the dataset, or the average of the two middle values if the overall number of values is even) of those same gaps in order to control for major outliers.

McLaren

Lando Norris versus Oscar Piastri

Head-to-head: Norris 3 - Piastri 5
Average gap: Piastri ahead by 0.125s
Median gap: Piastri ahead by 0.055s

Ferrari

Charles Leclerc versus Lewis Hamilton

Head-to-head: Leclerc 6 - Hamilton 2
Average gap: Leclerc ahead by 0.204s
Median gap: Leclerc ahead by 0.220s

Red Bull

Max Verstappen versus Yuki Tsunoda

Head-to-head: Verstappen 5 - Tsunoda 0
Average gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.864s
Median gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.880s

Max Verstappen versus Liam Lawson

Head-to-head: Verstappen 3 - Lawson 0
Average gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.880s
Median gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.813s

Mercedes

George Russell versus Kimi Antonelli

Head-to-head: Russell 6 - Antonelli 2
Average gap: Russell ahead by 0.248s
Median gap: Russell ahead by 0.309s

Aston Martin

Fernando Alonso versus Lance Stroll

Head-to-head: Alonso 7 - Stroll 1
Average gap: Alonso ahead by 0.315s
Median gap: Alonso ahead by 0.161s

Alpine

Pierre Gasly versus Jack Doohan

Head-to-head: Gasly 6 - Doohan 2
Average gap: Gasly ahead by 0.367s
Median gap: Gasly ahead by 0.460s

Haas

Esteban Ocon versus Ollie Bearman

Head-to-head: Ocon 3 - Bearman 5
Average gap: Ocon ahead by 0.227s
Median gap: Ocon ahead by 0.142s

Racing Bulls

Liam Lawson versus Isack Hadjar

Head-to-head: Lawson 1 - Hadjar 4
Average gap: Hadjar ahead by 0.291s
Median gap: Hadjar ahead by 0.376s

Yuki Tsunoda versus Isack Hadjar

Head-to-head: Tsunoda 2 - Hadjar 1
Average gap: Tsunoda ahead by 0.197s
Median gap: Tsunoda ahead by 0.197s

Williams

Carlos Sainz versus Alex Albon

Head-to-head: Sainz 3 - Albon 4
Average gap: Albon ahead by 0.109s
Median gap: Albon ahead by 0.053s

Sauber

Nico Hulkenberg versus Gabriel Bortoleto

Head-to-head: Hulkenberg 5 - Bortoleto 3
Average gap: Hulkenberg ahead by 0.189s
Median gap: Hulkenberg ahead by 0.086s