F1 2025: Head-to-head qualifying statistics between team-mates

F1 2025: Head-to-head qualifying statistics between teammates

F1 2025 head-to-head qualifying record: McLaren

Lando Norris 11-12 Oscar Piastri
Sprint qualifying: Lando Norris 2-3 Oscar Piastri

Lando Norris has held a comfortable margin in the qualifying head-to-head against Oscar Piastri in the past two seasons, with this being their third together as McLaren teammates.

Piastri has made it clear qualifying is a target of his to improve this season, having been on the wrong end of a 21-3 deficit in 2024 – though he was rarely far away from Norris on the grid. In 2025, the Aussie driver has made great headway.

F1 2025 head-to-head qualifying record: Ferrari

Lewis Hamilton 5-18 Charles Leclerc
Sprint qualifying: Lewis Hamilton 2-4 Charles Leclerc

The sport’s all-time leading polesitter is going up against the person who many believe to be Formula 1’s fastest qualifier over one lap at Ferrari this season.

Lewis Hamilton endured a difficult head-to-head against George Russell at Mercedes in 2024, himself an excellent qualifier, and Leclerc has already secured the Grand Prix head-to-head against the seven-time World Champion – though Hamilton has rarely been far away.

F1 2025 head-to-head qualifying record: Red Bull

Max Verstappen 2-0 Liam Lawson
Sprint qualifying: Max Verstappen 1-0 Liam Lawson

Max Verstappen 21-0 Yuki Tsunoda
Sprint qualifying: Max Verstappen 4-1 Yuki Tsunoda

To out-qualify Max Verstappen has been a rare feat in recent seasons, with Sergio Perez on the wrong side of a 20-2 deficit in 2023, and an even more one-sided 23-1 defeat in 2024.

Verstappen continued that dominance in his two F1 2025 weekends with Liam Lawson as his teammate and will be looking to do the same to Yuki Tsunoda, his newest Red Bull teammate.

F1 2025 head-to-head qualifying record: Mercedes

Kimi Antonelli 3-20 George Russell
Sprint qualifying: Andrea Kimi Antonelli 2-4 George Russell

Having beaten a seven-time World Champion 19-5 in qualifying in 2024, George Russell had every reason to go into this season against a rookie teammate in Andrea Kimi Antonelli as the favourite in this metric.

Russell has already wrapped up this particular head-to-head, but Antonelli has overall become closer to his teammate’s qualifying times as the season has progressed.

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F1 2025 head-to-head qualifying record: Aston Martin

Fernando Alonso 23-0 Lance Stroll
Sprint qualifying: Fernando Alonso 5-1 Lance Stroll

Fernando Alonso has held the upper hand at Aston Martin in both qualifying and race trim since his arrival at Silverstone, winning out 19-5 against Lance Stroll last year.

Alonso’s one-lap speed shows no sign of waning as Formula 1’s most experienced driver looks for a 23rd pole position, with his most recent coming at Hockenheim in 2012.

F1 2025 head-to-head qualifying record: Alpine

Jack Doohan 1-5 Pierre Gasly
Sprint qualifying: Jack Doohan 1-1 Pierre Gasly

Franco Colapinto 5-12 Pierre Gasly
Sprint qualifying: Franco Colapinto 0-4 Pierre Gasly

Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon had the closest qualifying battle on the grid last season, with a 12-11 result in Ocon’s favour before he departed one race early at the end of 2024.

This move opened the door for Jack Doohan to settle in a race early before his full-time drive in 2025, with Gasly getting the first qualifying notch on the board against his rookie teammate in Abu Dhabi last year.

Franco Colapinto replaced Doohan ahead of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

F1 2025 head-to-head qualifying record: Haas

Oliver Bearman 13-10 Esteban Ocon
Sprint qualifying: Oliver Bearman 3-3 Esteban Ocon

It’s an all-new partnership at Haas that sees Ollie Bearman take on Esteban Ocon, with the Frenchman taking in his new surroundings after a five-season stint at Team Enstone.

Bearman graduates to Formula 1 from his F2 stint alongside Kimi Antonelli at Prema, and remains a Ferrari junior through his stint at Haas.

F1 2025 head-to-head qualifying record: Racing Bulls

Isack Hadjar 1-1 Yuki Tsunoda
Sprint qualifying: Isack Hadjar 0-1 Yuki Tsunoda

Isack Hadjar 15-6 Liam Lawson
Sprint qualifying: Isack Hadjar 5-0 Liam Lawson

Three races into the new season and Isack Hadjar has a new teammate in Liam Lawson, who has replaced the Red Bull-bound Yuki Tsunoda at Red Bull’s sister team.

Both Hadjar, who has stepped up from Formula 2, and Lawson, who suffered an early season demotion from Red Bull, have something to prove.

Hadjar partnered Yuki Tsunoda in his first two races, tied in Grand Prix qualifying although Tsunoda pulled in front in Sprint qualifying.

F1 2025 head-to-head qualifying record: Williams

Alex Albon 10-12 Carlos Sainz*
Sprint qualifying: Alex Albon 3-3 Carlos Sainz

Alex Albon has been dominant in his qualifying head-to-heads at Williams to date, but in Carlos Sainz finds a stern test of his capabilities.

Both formerly among the Red Bull stable and with strong reputations on the Formula 1 grid, they will both be looking for internal bragging rights within Williams this season.

*Both drivers were disqualified from Singapore Grand Prix qualifying for a DRS infringement, with Albon having qualified ahead beforehand.

F1 2025 head-to-head qualifying record: Sauber

Gabriel Bortoleto 11-11 Nico Hulkenberg*
Sprint qualifying: Gabriel Bortoleto 3-3 Nico Hulkenberg

Nico Hulkenberg became something of a qualifying specialist in his stint at Haas, and he goes up against a back-to-back F3 and F2 champion in Gabriel Bortoleto at Sauber this season.

The two are both contracted to take the team through its transition to being an Audi factory outfit in 2026, with a blend of youth and experience.

*Bortoleto missed qualifying for the Sao Paulo GP after crashing in the Sprint earlier in the day.