Norris leads Piastri 13-4 in qualifying as Verstappen dominates Hadjar at Dutch GP

Lando Norris extended his qualifying head-to-head lead over McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to 13-4 on the season following Dutch Grand Prix qualifying at Zandvoort, with Norris taking fourth on the grid to Piastri’s first. Stripped of sprint shootout results, the gap narrows to 8-4 in Norris’s favour, though the overall trend remains clear.

At Mercedes, the intra-team battle remains tight. Kimi Antonelli leads George Russell 9-8 across all sessions — 7-5 without sprints — with Russell edging his rookie team-mate by 0.031 seconds in Q3 at Zandvoort to claim third on the grid. Antonelli, who has shown consistent one-lap pace throughout the season, took fifth.

Max Verstappen’s dominance over Red Bull partner Isack Hadjar continued in the Netherlands. The reigning champion now leads the Frenchman 12-3 in qualifying head-to-heads, adding a Dutch GP sprint shootout win to his tally before securing seventh on the grid in Saturday’s session. Hadjar qualified eighth. Verstappen also holds a separate 2-0 record over Liam Lawson, who replaced Hadjar at the sister Red Bull entry for two rounds earlier in the season.

At Ferrari, the head-to-head between Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton sits at 9-8 to Leclerc across all sessions, level at 6-6 without sprints. Hamilton outqualified his team-mate at Zandvoort, taking fifth to Leclerc’s sixth in Q3, where Hamilton was 0.064 seconds quicker in the sprint shootout.

At Williams, Carlos Sainz leads Alexander Albon 11-4 on the season — 9-2 without sprints — continuing a trend that has seen the Spaniard consistently out-pace his team-mate over a single lap since joining the Grove outfit.

These standings are compiled using qualifying results only, with grid penalties excluded to ensure the numbers reflect pure one-lap pace. Where a driver was unable to set a representative time due to a technical issue or incident, that session is noted separately rather than counted against them.