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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 9 - Piastri 13
Average gap: Piastri ahead by 0.063s
Median gap: Piastri ahead by 0.015s
Ferrari
Charles Leclerc versus Lewis Hamilton
Head-to-head: Leclerc 15 - Hamilton 7
Average gap: Leclerc ahead by 0.173s
Median gap: Leclerc ahead by 0.139s
Red Bull
Max Verstappen versus Yuki Tsunoda
Head-to-head: Verstappen 19 - Tsunoda 0
Average gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.708s
Median gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.567s
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 19 - Antonelli 3
Average gap: Russell ahead by 0.434s
Median gap: Russell ahead by 0.379s
Aston Martin
Fernando Alonso versus Lance Stroll
Head-to-head: Alonso 21 - Stroll 1
Average gap: Alonso ahead by 0.366s
Median gap: Alonso ahead by 0.260s
Alpine
Pierre Gasly versus Franco Colapinto
Head-to-head: Gasly 9 - Colapinto 5
Average gap: Gasly ahead by 0.131s
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 11
Average gap: Bearman ahead by 0.023s
Median gap: Bearman ahead by 0.136s
Racing Bulls
Liam Lawson versus Isack Hadjar
Head-to-head: Lawson 4 - Hadjar 15
Average gap: Hadjar ahead by 0.154s
Median gap: Hadjar ahead by 0.234s
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 11 - Albon 10
Average gap: Sainz ahead by 0.008s
Median gap: Sainz ahead by 0.041s
Sauber
Nico Hulkenberg versus Gabriel Bortoleto
Head-to-head: Hulkenberg 9 - Bortoleto 13
Average gap: Bortoleto ahead by 0.059s
Median gap: Bortoleto ahead by 0.130s
