{"id":394217,"date":"2026-01-07T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394217\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:09:10","slug":"qualifying-battles-every-f1-teams-fastest-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394217\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualifying battles: Every F1 team’s fastest driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to determine who was the fastest driver for every team on the 2025 grid. The easiest and simplest way to do this is by analyzing their one-lap performances in qualifying. <\/p>\n

We’re taking the best times from the qualifying sessions that both drivers participated in at each track. The average difference between drivers is then converted to a percentage. Wet qualifying sessions were excluded.<\/p>\n

McLaren<\/p>\n

Category
\nNorris
\nPiastri<\/p>\n

Poles
\n 7
\n 6<\/p>\n

Front-row starts
\n 15
\n 11<\/p>\n

Q3 appearances
\n 24
\n24<\/p>\n

Best qualifying position
\n 1st (x7)
\n 1st (x6)<\/p>\n

Average qualifying position
\n 2.96
\n 3.04<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H wins
\n 13
\n 11<\/p>\n

Faster
\n 0.042%<\/p>\n

Mercedes<\/p>\n

Category
\nRussell
\nAntonelli<\/p>\n

Poles
\n 2
\n0<\/p>\n

Front-row starts
\n 3
\n 1<\/p>\n

Q3 appearances
\n 23
\n 16<\/p>\n

Best qualifying position
\n 1st (x2)
\n 2nd<\/p>\n

Average qualifying position
\n 4.38
\n 8.58<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H wins
\n 21
\n3<\/p>\n

Faster
\n 0.312%<\/p>\n

Red Bull<\/p>\n

Category
\nVerstappen
\nTsunoda<\/p>\n

Poles
\n 8
\n 0<\/p>\n

Front-row starts
\n 12
\n 0<\/p>\n

Q3 appearances
\n 23
\n 9<\/p>\n

Best qualifying position
\n 1st (x8)
\n 5th<\/p>\n

Average qualifying position
\n 3.50
\n 12.58<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H wins
\n 22
\n0<\/p>\n

Faster
\n 0.604%<\/p>\n

Ferrari<\/p>\n

Category
\nLeclerc
\nHamilton<\/p>\n

Poles
\n 1
\n 0<\/p>\n

Front-row starts
\n 5
\n 0<\/p>\n

Q3 appearances
\n 23
\n 15<\/p>\n

Best qualifying position
\n 1st
\n 3rd<\/p>\n

Average qualifying position
\n 5.46
\n 9.04<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H wins
\n 19
\n 5<\/p>\n

Faster
\n 0.221%<\/p>\n

Williams<\/p>\n

Category
\nSainz
\nAlbon<\/p>\n

Poles
\n 0
\n0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Front-row starts
\n 1
\n0<\/p>\n

Q3 appearances
\n 11
\n8<\/p>\n

Best qualifying position
\n 2nd
\n 5th<\/p>\n

Average qualifying position
\n 10.61
\n 12.65<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H wins
\n 14-9<\/p>\n

Faster
\n 0.148%<\/p>\n

*Both Williams drivers were disqualified from qualifying in Singapore<\/p>\n

Racing Bulls<\/p>\n

Category
\nHadjar
\nLawson<\/p>\n

Poles
\n 0
\n0<\/p>\n

Front-row starts
\n 0
\n0<\/p>\n

Q3 appearances
\n 16
\n 8<\/p>\n

Best qualifying position
\n 4th
\n 3rd<\/p>\n

Average qualifying position
\n 9.67
\n 12.54<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H wins
\n 16
\n6<\/p>\n

Faster
\n 0.205%<\/p>\n

Aston Martin<\/p>\n

Category
\nAlonso
\nStroll<\/p>\n

Poles
\n 0
\n0<\/p>\n

Front-row starts
\n 0
\n0<\/p>\n

Q3 appearances
\n 13
\n2<\/p>\n

Best qualifying position
\n 5th (x2)
\n 6th<\/p>\n

Average qualifying position
\n 10.38
\n 15.96<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H wins
\n 24
\n0<\/p>\n

Faster
\n 0.391%<\/p>\n

Haas<\/p>\n

Category
\nBearman
\nOcon<\/p>\n

Poles
\n 0
\n0<\/p>\n

Front-row starts
\n 0
\n0<\/p>\n

Q3 appearances
\n 6
\n 3<\/p>\n

Best qualifying position
\n 8th (x3)
\n 8th (x2)<\/p>\n

Average qualifying position
\n 13.79
\n 14.91<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H wins
\n 13
\n10<\/p>\n

Faster
\n 0.161%<\/p>\n

*Esteban Ocon was disqualified from qualifying in Azerbaijan<\/p>\n

Sauber<\/p>\n

Category
\nBortoleto
\nHulkenberg<\/p>\n

Poles
\n 0
\n0<\/p>\n

Front-row starts
\n 0
\n0<\/p>\n

Q3 appearances
\n 5
\n1<\/p>\n

Best qualifying position
\n 7th (x2)
\n 10th<\/p>\n

Average qualifying position
\n 14.21
\n 14.88<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H wins
\n 12
\n12<\/p>\n

Faster
\n 0.034%<\/p>\n

Alpine<\/p>\n

Category
\nGasly
\nColapinto<\/p>\n

Poles
\n 0
\n0<\/p>\n

Front-row starts
\n 0
\n0<\/p>\n

Q3 appearances
\n 10
\n 0<\/p>\n

Best qualifying position
\n 5th
\n 12th<\/p>\n

Average qualifying position
\n 13.42
\n 16.94<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H wins
\n 13
\n5<\/p>\n

Faster
\n 0.269%<\/p>\n

Qualifying H2H records leaderboard<\/p>\n

Team
\n Winner
\n Record
\n Loser<\/p>\n

Aston Martin
\n Fernando Alonso
\n 24-0
\n Lance Stroll<\/p>\n

Red Bull
\n Max Verstappen
\n 22-0
\n Yuki Tsunoda<\/p>\n

Red Bull
\n Max Verstappen
\n 2-0
\n Liam Lawson<\/p>\n

Mercedes
\n George Russell
\n 21-3
\n Kimi Antonelli<\/p>\n

Ferrari
\n Charles Leclerc
\n 19-5
\n Lewis Hamilton<\/p>\n

Alpine
\n Pierre Gasly
\n 13-5
\n Franco Colapinto<\/p>\n

Alpine
\n Pierre Gasly
\n 5-1
\n Jack Doohan<\/p>\n

Racing Bulls
\n Isack Hadjar
\n 16-6
\n Liam Lawson<\/p>\n

Racing Bulls
\n Isack Hadjar
\n 1-1
\n Yuki Tsunoda<\/p>\n

Williams
\n Carlos Sainz
\n 14-9
\n Alex Albon<\/p>\n

Haas
\n Oliver Bearman
\n 13-10
\n Esteban Ocon<\/p>\n

McLaren
\n Lando Norris
\n 13-11
\n Oscar Piastri<\/p>\n

Sauber
\n Gabriel Bortoleto
\n 12-12
\n Nico Hulkenberg<\/p>\n

Pace difference between teammates leaderboard<\/p>\n

Team
\nFaster
\nGap
\nTeammate<\/p>\n

Sauber
\nBortoleto
\n0.034%
\nHulkenberg<\/p>\n

McLaren
\nNorris
\n0.042%
\nPiastri<\/p>\n

Williams
\nSainz
\n0.148%
\nAlbon<\/p>\n

Haas
\nBearman
\n0.161%
\nOcon<\/p>\n

Racing Bulls
\nHadjar
\n0.205%
\nLawson<\/p>\n

Ferrari
\nLeclerc
\n0.221%
\nHamilton<\/p>\n

Alpine
\nGasly
\n0.269%
\nColapinto<\/p>\n

Mercedes
\nRussell
\n0.312%
\nAntonelli<\/p>\n

Aston Martin
\nAlonso
\n0.391%
\nStroll<\/p>\n

Red Bull
\nVerstappen
\n0.604%
\nTsunoda<\/p>\n

Daniel Valente is theScore’s lead Formula 1 writer. Follow Daniel on X at @F1GuyDan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s time to determine who was the fastest driver for every team on the 2025 grid. The easiest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-394217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}