F1 Qualifying Results: Qatar Grand Prix times and grid positions

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Qatar Grand Prix Qualifying

F1 Qualifying Results: Qatar Grand Prix times and grid positions

The results for F1 qualifying at the 2025 Qatar GP

Kerry Violet F1 News Editor

F1 editor and journalist covering motorsport since 2024.

Saturday 29 November 2025 20:28 Updated: 11:33

McLaren star Oscar Piastri took pole position for the 2025 Qatar Grand Prix on Saturday evening in Lusail as team-mate Lando Norris took a hit in his chances of claiming the championship this weekend.

Piastri has shone in Qatar this year, taking the sprint pole and victory and now the grand prix pole, meaning the pressure is on Norris to get past his team-mate on Sunday or risk the championship fight going down to the wire in Abu Dhabi.

The penultimate qualifying session of the year took place under entirely dry conditions and saw Norris claim provisional pole position, but the McLaren driver once again backed off on his final push lap in an error which could prove fatal to his title chances.

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This left the door open for Piastri, who will line up on the front row for Sunday's main event with Norris beside him.

Reigning champion Max Verstappen qualified third-fastest and will line up next to George Russell for the Qatar GP.

His team-mate Kimi Antonelli finished qualifying in P5.

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton was ruled out of a competitive starting position for Sunday's race as a nightmare weekend for the seven-time champion continued in Qatar when he failed to make it out of Q1.

His team-mate Charles Leclerc may have made it through to Q3 but the Monegasque driver's session was far from perfect.

Leclerc suffered a big spin in the final stage of Saturday's qualifying after dipping a tyre into the gravel at Turn 15, miraculously managing to keep his Ferrari in one piece.

The session was briefly red-flagged after Leclerc's shaky moment and a bizarre problem for Carlos Sainz where a plastic sticker got stuck under the wheel of his Williams.

The session resumed at 10pm local time (AST) but the mistake for Leclerc proved costly as the Ferrari star only managed to qualify tenth-fastest.

Here are the full results from the Qatar GP qualifying.

Position	Driver	Team	Time/Status
1	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	1:19.387
2	Lando Norris	McLaren	+0.108
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	+0.264
4	George Russell	Mercedes	+0.275
5	Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	+0.459
6	Isack Hadjar	Racing Bulls	+0.727
7	Carlos Sainz	Williams	+0.900
8	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	+1.031
9	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	+1.090
10	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	+1.174
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Kick Sauber	OUT IN Q2
12	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	OUT IN Q2
13	Oliver Bearman	Haas	OUT IN Q2
14	Gabriel Bortoleto	Kick Sauber	OUT IN Q2
15	Alex Albon	Williams	OUT IN Q2
16	Yuki Tsunoda	Red Bull	OUT IN Q1
17	Esteban Ocon	Haas	OUT IN Q1
18	Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	OUT IN Q1
19	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	OUT IN Q1
20	Franco Colapinto	Alpine	OUT IN Q1

How does F1 Qualifying work?

The qualifying session is split into three finite windows, which provide a dramatic prelude to Sunday's race.

The bottom five drivers are eliminated at the end of Q1, with a further five eliminated after Q2.

Then, Q3 gives us a shootout between the remaining 10 drivers in the battle for positions at the front of the grid.

Written by

Kerry Violet - F1 News Editor

Having graduated from the University of Sheffield with a 2:1 in Journalism in 2022, Kerry continued her pursuit of finding a full-time position in motorsport through work with the F1 Arcade in London, where she got to meet true fans of the sport and make a live grand prix watch party memorable for them. It was here that she confirmed her dream of combining her background in journalism and love of motorsport, going on to volunteer with the female-led platform Empoword Journalism. Having completed stints as a screen editor and sports editor, Kerry landed her first F1-specific editorial role with GPFans and has thoroughly enjoyed continuing to work closely with the sport ever since. The access GPFans offers Kerry has allowed her to interview big names such as Naomi Schiff and David Coulthard and given her experiences she could only have dreamt of as a young F1 fan.

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