Formula 1 qualifying in Spain
McLaren dominates: Piatri grabs the pole
Updated on May 31, 2025 – 5:18 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
For the fourth time, Oscar Piatri has secured the pole position in this year’s Formula 1 season. In qualifying in Spain just behind him: his teammate.
WM leader Oscar Piatri has conquered the important pole position at the Grand Prix of Spain and thus showed a strong reaction in the narrow McLaren duel. The Australian was two tenths of a second in qualifying at the gates of Barcelona on Saturday than his English teammate Lando Norris – he had approved some ground on Piatri in the past two races.
The two rivals still separate only three World Cup points, in the ninth season race on Sunday (3:00 p.m. in the live ticker at T-Online) Piatri can now expand his lead again. World champion Max Verstappen will start to Red Bull, Mercedes-Pilot George Russell and Lewis Hamilton will start in Ferrari. Nico Hülkenberg in the Sauber failed in the first round and did not come beyond 16th place. Also remarkable: Verstappen’s teammate Yuki Tsunoda disappointed again and became the last.
Statistically speaking, the pole position in Barcelona is as important as on hardly any other route. A good 70 percent of the victories since 1991 have been won here from the first place to start – in Monaco, for example, just under 50 percent.
The struggle for this advantage was now a fairly exclusive matter of McLaren, the opposite had actually hoped for the opposite in Barcelona: the World Association had introduced a stricter rule for the front wings, which could have scratched the superiority of the McLaren. So far this has not been observed.