With the F1 sprint race out of the way, focus turned onto the important matter of qualifying at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chinese Grand Prix.

It was an incredibly 🤡close ba🙈ttle for pole position, featuring some late surprises, as the grid order was determined for Sunday’s grand prix in Shanghai.

As always, s𒅌ome drivers were delighted, while others were💟 left disappointed by their efforts.

Here are our winners and losers from a thrilling qualif𒊎ying in China.

Winner - Oscar Piastri and McLaren

McLaren will be pleased with their qualifying result after turning things around following a diffic🅠ult Friday and sprint race on Saturday morning.

A brilliant maiden F1 career pole for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri puts him in prime position to win and put the disappointment of his home race firmly behind him. It was worth the 47-weekend wait for the Australia꧑n, who produced two laps 🤪which were ultimately good enough to top qualifying.

Teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris couldn’t join him on the front row as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell pipped his fellow Briton at the death in Q3, but McLaren returned to form after being𝓰 left puzzled by their lack of pace in Friday’s sprint qualifying.

Loser - Liam Lawson

It is fast turning into another weekend to forget for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson in China.

Lawson’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:nightmare s🙈tart to his Red Bull career continued as he qualified last for the second consecutive day, with another Q1 elimination further increasing the rapidly-growing pressure on his shoulders. To rub salt into the wounds, he was 0.750s slower than teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen.

After another wretched day behind the wheel of the RB21, the 23-yea🌠r-old Kiwi admitted “I don’t really have time” to find confidence and arrest his current struggles in one of F1’s most unforgiving environments.

Winner - George Russell

Russell left it late to put his Mercedes on the front row, turning in a subl♑ime lap to deny McLaren another 1-2 in qualifying.

Russell ended up just 0.082s adrift of Piastri and 0.050s ahead of Norris to split the McLarens and grab a position that didn’t really look on the cards forꦉ much of the 🍌session.

But Russell once again im♕pressed over one lap, extracting everything and more from his W16 to secure his first front-row start of the year with a lap🤪 which exceeded Mercedes’ expectations.

Loser - Lando Norris

It may seem a little harsh to class Norris as a loser given he starts third ♐on the grid and still has every chance of making it back-to-back wins to further extend his lead in the F1 drivers🐈’ championship.

But Norris himself admitted after qualifying that he has underperformed so far in China. McLaren clearly has the fastest car, but Norriꦇs was left to rue more mistakes in Shanghai as he had to settle wit🤡h the second row.

It follows up a messy Friday and sprint race, in which he made a key error which dropped him positions. P3 is by no means a bad result, but it marks a missed opportunity for Norris to capitalise on t🍌he competitiveness of his McLaren.

Winner - Max Verstappen

Verstappen continues to outperform his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Red Bull and will be rightly happy to take fourth on the grid, especially🌼 when you consider where his teammate ended 🙈up.

Verstappen may be worried Red Bull are the s🍎lowest of all the top teams, yet he remains right in contention as he continues to lim🤡it the damage. After all, he was only 0.176s shy of pole and still outqualiied both Ferraris - who have a car he considers to be quicker than his RB21.

The Dutchman will start aloꦛngside early title rival Norris and will sense an opportunity to potentially take the lead of the championship for the first time this year.

Loser - Ferrari

Ferrari♛’s challeng♍e disappointingly faded on Saturday in Shanghai after claiming both the pole and race win in the sprint.

Having made such a positive start to the weekend, Ferrari were never in the fight for pole in regular grand prix qualifying.168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton continued to be the faster Ferrari driver but was only fifth, one place ahead of teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc.

Hamilton revealed after qualifying that Ferrari changes made his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:car tricker to drive, while Leclerc was left concerned that Ferrari’s display was a true indℱica☂tion of their current performance levels.

Winner - Racing Bulls

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Isack Hadjar bounced back from his Melbourne heartbreak to be the surprise star of qualifying in Shanghai, as he outpaced 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kimi Antonelli to take seventh on the grid. P7 matches th🤪e best qualifying result of any of F1 2025’s rookie crop so far.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda was slower thaꩵn the impressive Hadjar in all three parts of qualifying but ninth place means Racꦓing Bulls are in a strong position to score their first points of the season after a big missed opportunity last time out.

Loser - Carlos Sainz

It has been a tricky start to life at Williams for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz, who was the slowest driver in Q2 and will line up onl𒁃y 15th.

Following a difficult sprint race, failing to join teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon in Q3 added to what is turning out to be a disappoi💜nting weekend for the four-time grand prix winner. Sainz will have his work cut out to score point🍨s on Sunday.

Winner - Estaban Ocon

Haas have endured a truly torrid start to 2025 but 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon’s performance in qualifying will have raised the m🉐ood in the camp.

The Frenchman advanced out of Q1 for the first time this season and displayed encouraging pace in his VF-25, falling just 0.030s s💞hort of what would have been a first Q3 appearance for Haas this year.

From P11, Ocon and Haas have a great chance🦩 to challenge the top-10 and potentially get off the mark.

Loser - Alpine

Alpine entered the campaign being tipped as potential front-of-the-midfield challengers, but the French outfit look well short of൲ that based on a dreadful qualifying in China.

Both Alpine cars were dumped out in Q1, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly only 16th and F1 rookie168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Jack Doohan down in 18th after a spin ꧑that will do little to ease the pressure he finds ♎himself under.