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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 11 - Piastri 13
Average gap: Piastri ahead by 0.018s
Median gap: Piastri ahead by 0.014s
Ferrari
Charles Leclerc versus Lewis Hamilton
Head-to-head: Leclerc 16 - Hamilton 7
Average gap: Leclerc ahead by 0.166s
Median gap: Leclerc ahead by 0.111s
Red Bull
Max Verstappen versus Yuki Tsunoda
Head-to-head: Verstappen 21 - Tsunoda 0
Average gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.686s
Median gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.547s
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 21 - Antonelli 3
Average gap: Russell ahead by 0.413s
Median gap: Russell ahead by 0.355s
Aston Martin
Fernando Alonso versus Lance Stroll
Head-to-head: Alonso 23 - Stroll 1
Average gap: Alonso ahead by 0.385s
Median gap: Alonso ahead by 0.374s
Alpine
Pierre Gasly versus Franco Colapinto
Head-to-head: Gasly 11 - Colapinto 5
Average gap: Gasly ahead by 0.148s
Median gap: Gasly ahead by 0.210s
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 10 - Bearman 13
Average gap: Bearman ahead by 0.032s
Median gap: Bearman ahead by 0.136s
Racing Bulls
Liam Lawson versus Isack Hadjar
Head-to-head: Lawson 5 - Hadjar 16
Average gap: Hadjar ahead by 0.213s
Median gap: Hadjar ahead by 0.206s
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 13 - Albon 10
Average gap: Sainz ahead by 0.063s
Median gap: Sainz ahead by 0.055s
Sauber
Nico Hulkenberg versus Gabriel Bortoleto
Head-to-head: Hulkenberg 11 - Bortoleto 13
Average gap: Bortoleto ahead by 0.022s
Median gap: Bortoleto ahead by 0.128s
