F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

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

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

Head-to-head: Norris 14 - Piastri 13
Average gap: Norris ahead by 0.048s
Median gap: Norris ahead by 0.032s

Ferrari

Charles Leclerc versus Lewis Hamilton

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

Head-to-head: Leclerc 21 - Hamilton 7
Average gap: Leclerc ahead by 0.253s
Median gap: Leclerc ahead by 0.139s

Red Bull

Max Verstappen versus Yuki Tsunoda

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

Head-to-head: Verstappen 24 - Tsunoda 0
Average gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.787s
Median gap: Verstappen ahead by 0.587s

Max Verstappen versus Liam Lawson

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

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

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

Head-to-head: Russell 22 - Antonelli 5
Average gap: Russell ahead by 0.471s
Median gap: Russell ahead by 0.350s

Aston Martin

Fernando Alonso versus Lance Stroll

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

Head-to-head: Alonso 27 - Stroll 1
Average gap: Alonso ahead by 0.402s
Median gap: Alonso ahead by 0.374s

Alpine

Pierre Gasly versus Franco Colapinto

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

Head-to-head: Gasly 15 - Colapinto 5
Average gap: Gasly ahead by 0.289s
Median gap: Gasly ahead by 0.252s

Pierre Gasly versus Jack Doohan

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

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

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

Head-to-head: Ocon 11 - Bearman 15
Average gap: Bearman ahead by 0.078s
Median gap: Bearman ahead by 0.146s

Racing Bulls

Liam Lawson versus Isack Hadjar

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

Head-to-head: Lawson 6 - Hadjar 19
Average gap: Hadjar ahead by 0.200s
Median gap: Hadjar ahead by 0.263s

Yuki Tsunoda versus Isack Hadjar

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

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

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

Head-to-head: Sainz 14 - Albon 12
Average gap: Sainz ahead by 0.059s
Median gap: Sainz ahead by 0.048s

Sauber

Nico Hulkenberg versus Gabriel Bortoleto

F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team

Head-to-head: Hulkenberg 13 - Bortoleto 13
Average gap: Hulkenberg ahead by 0.072s
Median gap: Bortoleto ahead by 0.063s