Oscar Piastri leads McLaren front-row for Spanish GP
31st May 2025McLaren’s championship leader, Oscar Piastri, has led a McLaren front-row lockout alongside Lando Norris for the Spanish Grand Prix.
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McLaren has been in strong form all weekend with Norris going fastest in Free Practice 1 before Piastri topped the timing boards in FP2 and FP3. This strong performance comes in the weekend where a new technical directive has been introduced to clamp down on the use of flexi front wings.
Qualifying didn’t stop this run of form as Norris had held provisional pole position in the first run of Q3, but on the second run, it was Piastri who topped the timing boards, pipping his teammate by 0.2 seconds.
Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton temporarily took third position at the end of qualifying but the seven-time world champion was quickly demoted by both Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen and then his former teammate, George Russell, for Mercedes.
In the end, it meant Verstappen rounded out the top three ahead of Russell and Hamilton. Russell’s teammate, Kimi Antonelli, completed the session in sixth.
It left Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, Alpine’s Pierre Gasly, Racing Bulls Isack Hadjar and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso to complete the top 10, in seventh to 10th.
The race will get underway on Sunday, with it expected to be a dry race, at 3pm local time (2pm BST).
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