Article by Darius Stanescu – published on Sunday, June 1, 2025, 16:41 / Updated Sunday, June 1, 20:44
Oscar Piastri, the Australian pilot in McLaren, left the Pole Position in the Grand Prize of Spain, after he managed to get the best time, 1: 11,546. The race started at 4:00 pm, on the Barcelona circuit, and is LiveText on GSP and TV on Antena 1.
Oscar Piastri is at the fourth pole-postion this season of Formula 1, after winning the qualifications of the Barcelona Spanish prize. Piastri obtained the time 1: 11,546, and Norris 1: 11.855.
Live. Grand Prize of Spain: Piastri and Norris on the first two places
Tour 30/66. Verstappen changes again and goes out on the 4th place, right in front of Lewis Hamilton.
Tour 27/66. Hadjar passed Gasly on the outside and is 8th in Barcelona.
Tour 23/66. Change of leader! After the tire exchange of Piastri, Max Verstappen climbed the first place in the standings.
Tour 22/66. And Norris entered the boxes and was again outdated by Verstappen.
Tour 20/66. Verstappen entered the speakers and returned to the 3rd place. Follow Piastri and Norris for the first tire change.
Tour 14/66. Alonso brakes late and goes out of the circuit, and now he is 11th in the standings. Top 5 remains unchanged.
Tour 7/66. Piastri, Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton and Leclerc are in the top 5 at this time.
Tour 1/66. He left Pole-Position, Oscar Piastri maintained his position, but Norris was exceeded by Max Verstappen in the first turn.
McLaren occupies the first two places in Spain's Grand Prize
On the starting grid, McLaren will occupy the first two places, followed by Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and George Russell (Mercedes).
In addition to the duel between the two pilots in McLaren, the attention is also heading to the World Champion Max Verstappen, who will start from the third place, and to Lewis Hamilton, who qualified for five.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Charles Leclerc and Pierre Gasly will leave positions 6, 7 and 8 respectively.
The training sessions were dominated by the McLaren pilots, with Norris the fastest in P1 and the fastest in P2 and P3, a sign that the team wants to be located as high in the standings this weekend.
Max Verstappen was declared dissatisfied after the qualifications, saying that “it will not be easy” to fight with those from McLaren in the race.
On the starting grid, the first pilot outside the Top 10 will be Alex Albon, and Carlos Sainz missed Q1, finishing at 18th place
The race is expected with great interest, as McLaren has dominated training and qualifications, and Red Bull and Mercedes will try to respond to the challenge.
Pilots will only stop twice at speakers in the race
Today's race for the Grand Prize of Spain will almost certainly include two speakers, due to the extremely high degradation of the tires on the “Catalunya” high -speed circuit near Barcelona.
According to Pirelli data, the optimal option for traveling 66 tours is the start of soft tires, with which to make the first 13-19 tours, after which to move to the average ones.
The last stint will also be traveled with soft tires, and the second stop at the speakers will take place between the 42 and 48 tours.
There are other tire distribution variants, some of them including all three types, and others relying on a set of soft tires and two medium tires.
This strategy with two medium tire sets will be possible only for Charles Leclerc and Haas pilots, Oliver Bearman and Esteban Ocon, who are the only ones who have two sets of medium tires for the race.
All the pilots on the starting grid have a set of hard tires, except Leclerc, Bearman and Ocon, who have a set of medium tires. The three have, respectively, with a set of soft tires.
