{"id":49550,"date":"2025-05-31T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/spanish-gp-qualifying-oscar-piastri-beats-lando-norris-to-pole-as-mclaren-seal-front-row-lockout-in-barcelona-f1-news\/31\/05\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:03:43","slug":"spanish-gp-qualifying-oscar-piastri-beats-lando-norris-to-pole-as-mclaren-seal-front-row-lockout-in-barcelona-f1-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/spanish-gp-qualifying-oscar-piastri-beats-lando-norris-to-pole-as-mclaren-seal-front-row-lockout-in-barcelona-f1-news\/31\/05\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish GP Qualifying: Oscar Piastri beats Lando Norris to pole as McLaren seal front-row lockout in Barcelona | F1 News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oscar Piastri beat team-mate Lando Norris to pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix as McLaren sealed a front-row lockout.<\/p>\n

Piastri, who leads Norris by three points at the top of the world championship, trailed the Brit after the first laps in the final part of qualifying but produced a superb final run to take his fourth pole of the season with a 1:11.546.<\/p>\n

Norris was unable to maintain the form he showed to take pole and win in Monaco last weekend as a scrappy final effort left him two tenths of a second off Piastri.<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen and George Russell were less than a tenth of a second off Norris in third and fourth, respectively, as they set identical times, with the Red Bull starting ahead of the Mercedes as a result of delivering his lap first.<\/p>\n

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Oscar Piastri edged out team-mate Lando Norris to pole as McLaren celebrated a first front-row lockout at the Spanish Grand Prix in 27 years<\/span>
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Lewis Hamilton took fifth for Ferrari by out-qualifying his team-mate Charles Leclerc, who was seventh behind the Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli, for just the second time in nine grand prix sessions this season.<\/p>\n

McLaren’s impressive display made a nonsense of speculation coming into the weekend that the runaway Constructors’ Championship leaders would be hampered by a technical directive introduced in Barcelona limiting the permitted level of flexion in front wings.<\/p>\n

Instead, the reigning champions have produced perhaps their most dominant start to a weekend so far this season, increasingly the expectation that the title battle could be played out from either side of the McLaren garage.<\/p>\n

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Red Bull’s Yuki Tsunoda and Williams driver Carlos Sainz both suffered early exits during qualifying in Spain<\/span>
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Pierre Gasly took an impressive eighth for Alpine, while Racing Bulls rookie Isack Hadjar continued his superb form to seal ninth ahead of Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n

Red Bull’s woes with their second car continued as Yuki Tsunoda qualified last as he failed to make it through to Q3 for a third successive race.<\/p>\n

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Spanish GP Qualifying Timesheet<\/h2>\n
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Driver<\/b><\/th>\nTeam<\/b><\/th>\nTime<\/b><\/th>\n<\/thead>\n
1) Oscar Piastri<\/td>\nMcLaren<\/td>\n1:11.546<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2) Lando Norris<\/td>\nMcLaren<\/td>\n+0.209<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3) Max Verstappen<\/td>\nRed Bull<\/td>\n+0.302<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4) George Russell<\/td>\nMercedes<\/td>\n+0.302<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5) Lewis Hamilton<\/td>\nFerrari<\/td>\n+0.499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6) Kimi Antonelli<\/td>\nMercedes<\/td>\n+0.565<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7) Charles Leclerc<\/td>\nFerrari<\/td>\n+0.585<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8) Pierre Gasly<\/td>\nAlpine<\/td>\n+0.653<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9) Isack Hadjar<\/td>\nRacing Bulls<\/td>\n+0.706<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10) Fernando Alonso<\/td>\nAston Martin<\/td>\n+0.738<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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11) Alex Albon<\/td>\nWilliams<\/td>\n1:12.641<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12) Gabriel Bortoleto<\/td>\nSauber<\/td>\n1:12.756<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13) Liam Lawson<\/td>\nRacing Bulls<\/td>\n1:12.763<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14) Lance Stroll<\/td>\nAston Martin<\/td>\n1:13.058<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15) Oliver Bearman<\/td>\nHaas<\/td>\n1:13.315<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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16) Nico Hulkenberg<\/td>\nSauber<\/td>\n1:13.190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17) Esteban Ocon<\/td>\nHaas<\/td>\n1:13.201<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18) Carlos Sainz<\/td>\nWilliams<\/td>\n1:13.203<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19) Franco Colapinto<\/td>\nAlpine<\/td>\n1:13.334<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20) Yuki Tsunoda<\/td>\nRed Bull<\/td>\n1:13.385<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix we take a look back at some of the most dramatic moments from previous races at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya<\/span>
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Sunday June 1<\/strong>
7.25am: F3 Feature Race
8.55am: F2 Feature Race
12.30pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Spanish GP build-up*
2pm: The SPANISH GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>
4pm: Chequered Flag: Spanish GP reaction<\/p>\n

*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\n

F1’s European triple header concludes with the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona this weekend, with live coverage starting from Friday on Sky Sports F1<\/em>. Stream Sky Sports with NOW – no contract, cancel anytime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oscar Piastri beat team-mate Lando Norris to pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix as McLaren sealed a front-row lockout. Piastri, who