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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 5 - Piastri 9
Average gap: Piastri ahead by 0.088s
Median gap: Piastri ahead by 0.055s
Ferrari
Charles Leclerc versus Lewis Hamilton

Head-to-head: Leclerc 9 - Hamilton 5
Average gap: Leclerc ahead by 0.138s
Median gap: Leclerc ahead by 0.125s
Red Bull
Max Verstappen versus Yuki Tsunoda

Head-to-head: Verstappen 11 - Tsunoda 0
Average gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.668s
Median gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.564s
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 12 - Antonelli 2
Average gap: Russell ahead by 0.310s
Median gap: Russell ahead by 0.380s
Aston Martin
Fernando Alonso versus Lance Stroll

Head-to-head: Alonso 13 - Stroll 1
Average gap: Alonso ahead by 0.362s
Median gap: Alonso ahead by 0.311s
Alpine
Pierre Gasly versus Franco Colapinto

Head-to-head: Gasly 5 - Colapinto 1
Average gap: Gasly ahead by 0.319s
Median gap: Gasly ahead by 0.442s
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 7 - Bearman 7
Average gap: Ocon ahead by 0.081s
Median gap: Bearman ahead by 0.127s
Racing Bulls
Liam Lawson versus Isack Hadjar

Head-to-head: Lawson 2 - Hadjar 9
Average gap: Hadjar ahead by 0.226s
Median gap: Hadjar ahead by 0.263s
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 5 - Albon 8
Average gap: Albon ahead by 0.163s
Median gap: Albon ahead by 0.159s
Sauber
Nico Hulkenberg versus Gabriel Bortoleto

Head-to-head: Hulkenberg 7 - Bortoleto 7
Average gap: Hulkenberg ahead by 0.048s
Median gap: Bortoleto ahead by 0.016s