F1 qualifying results: Max Verstappen takes Spanish GP pole

Verstappen will start ahead of Sainz and Lando Norris (McLaren) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.

Spanish Grand Prix qualifying results: Verstappen on pole from Sainz

What happened in Spanish Grand Prix Q1?

In tricky damp weather conditions on slick tyres, the session was red flagged after Valtteri Bottas spun his Alfa Romeo into the gravel, while Alex Albon (Williams) spun off at Turn 5, Nyck de Vries rotated his AlphaTauri and Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin also took a trip through the gravel.

Verstappen set the pace at 1m13.615s despite being involved in an impeding investigation with Pierre Gasly (Alpine), who then beat him with 1m13.471s as the times tumbled at the end. Norris and then Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) improved to the P1 spot, Hamilton lapping in 1m12.937s for the quickest lap of the session, as Verstappen slipped back to ninth.

Falling at the first hurdle were Bottas, Kevin Magnussen (Haas), Albon, Charles Leclerc – who suffered a disastrous session in his Ferrari – and Logan Sargeant (Williams).

Spanish Grand Prix Q1 results: Hamilton fastest from Norris

Cla	Driver		Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Lewis Hamilton		11	1'12.937			229.759
2	Lando Norris		10	1'13.295	0.358	0.358	228.637
3	George Russell		11	1'13.326	0.389	0.031	228.541
4	Carlos Sainz		10	1'13.411	0.474	0.085	228.276
5	Nico Hulkenberg		9	1'13.420	0.483	0.009	228.248
6	Esteban Ocon		9	1'13.433	0.496	0.013	228.208
7	Pierre Gasly		9	1'13.471	0.534	0.038	228.089
8	Nyck de Vries		10	1'13.581	0.644	0.110	227.749
9	Max Verstappen		9	1'13.615	0.678	0.034	227.643
10	Zhou Guanyu		10	1'13.677	0.740	0.062	227.452
11	Oscar Piastri		8	1'13.691	0.754	0.014	227.409
12	Fernando Alonso		9	1'13.747	0.810	0.056	227.236
13	Lance Stroll		11	1'13.766	0.829	0.019	227.177
14	Yuki Tsunoda		11	1'13.862	0.925	0.096	226.882
15	Sergio Perez		10	1'13.874	0.937	0.012	226.845
16	Valtteri Bottas		10	1'13.977	1.040	0.103	226.529
17	Kevin Magnussen		9	1'14.042	1.105	0.065	226.331
18	Alex Albon		8	1'14.063	1.126	0.021	226.266
19	Charles Leclerc		10	1'14.079	1.142	0.016	226.217
20	Logan Sargeant		6	1'14.699	1.762	0.620	224.340
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What happened in Spanish Grand Prix Q2?

Verstappen set the pace at 1m12.760s, just 0.016s faster than Norris’s McLaren, as his Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez struggled for pace and went off on the opening lap of his final run at Turn 7.

On his final attempt, Perez failed to make the top 10 by 0.051s. In another bizarre moment, the Mercedes cars collided on the run to Turn 1, while passing Sainz’s Ferrari, with Hamilton’s car losing his front wing endplate.

Knocked out at this point along with Perez were George Russell (Mercedes), Zhou Guanyu (Alfa) and the AlphaTauris of de Vries and Yuki Tsunoda.

Spanish Grand Prix Q2 results: Verstappen fastest from Norris

Cla	Driver		Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Max Verstappen		15	1'12.760			230.318
2	Lando Norris		16	1'12.776	0.016	0.016	230.268
3	Carlos Sainz		16	1'12.790	0.030	0.014	230.223
4	Lewis Hamilton		17	1'12.999	0.239	0.209	229.564
5	Esteban Ocon		15	1'13.001	0.241	0.002	229.558
6	Oscar Piastri		14	1'13.059	0.299	0.058	229.376
7	Lance Stroll		17	1'13.082	0.322	0.023	229.304
8	Fernando Alonso		15	1'13.098	0.338	0.016	229.253
9	Pierre Gasly		15	1'13.186	0.426	0.088	228.978
10	Nico Hulkenberg		15	1'13.283	0.523	0.097	228.675
11	Sergio Perez		17	1'13.334	0.574	0.051	228.516
12	George Russell		18	1'13.447	0.687	0.113	228.164
13	Zhou Guanyu		16	1'13.521	0.761	0.074	227.934
14	Nyck de Vries		16	1'14.083	1.323	0.562	226.205
15	Yuki Tsunoda		19	1'14.477	1.717	0.394	225.009
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What happened in Spanish Grand Prix Q3?

On the first runs, Verstappen lapped in 1m12.272s, almost a second clear of the opposition on fresh tyres as opposed to everyone else on used rubber.

On the final runs, Verstappen didn’t need to improve, as Sainz took second – 0.462s in arrears – from Norris, Gasly (who got two grid penalties for impeding, dropping him to 10th), Hamilton, Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), Esteban Ocon (Alpine), Nico Hulkenberg (Haas), Alonso (whose car suffered damage in its early off) and Oscar Piastri (McLaren).

Spanish Grand Prix Q3 results: Verstappen takes pole

Cla	Driver		Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Max Verstappen		20	1'12.272			231.874
2	Carlos Sainz		22	1'12.734	0.462	0.462	230.401
3	Lando Norris		22	1'12.792	0.520	0.058	230.217
4	Pierre Gasly		21	1'12.816	0.544	0.024	230.141
5	Lewis Hamilton		23	1'12.818	0.546	0.002	230.135
6	Lance Stroll		23	1'12.994	0.722	0.176	229.580
7	Esteban Ocon		21	1'13.083	0.811	0.089	229.300
8	Nico Hulkenberg		18	1'13.229	0.957	0.146	228.843
9	Fernando Alonso		18	1'13.507	1.235	0.278	227.978
10	Oscar Piastri		20	1'13.682	1.410	0.175	227.436
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