F1 qualifying results: Who takes pole position for the Qatar Grand Prix sprint?

Only 24 points separate the three contenders for the 2025 Formula 1 Drivers’ Championship.

That means every point counts over the final two weeks of the season.

Today, the 20 drivers will take on qualifying for the F1 Sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix, where eight points will go to the winner of tomorrow’s F1 Sprint race. Earlier today, the drivers enjoyed their single hour of practice before the lap times count for real, and it was the McLaren pair of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris who led the way. Piastri topped the timing sheets with a lap of 1:20.924, just 0.058 seconds ahead of Norris.

Max Verstappen posted the sixth-fastest time, clocking in 0.580 seconds behind Piastri.

Norris currently leads in the Drivers’ Championship race with 390 points, followed by Piastri and Verstappen who sit level on points with 366 each. Norris can technically clinch his first Drivers’ Championship this weekend if he leaves Qatar with a 26-point advantage over his rivals, otherwise, the title race will head to the season finale in Abu Dhabi.

We’ll be tracking F1 Sprint qualifying at the Qatar Grand Prix, which gets underway at 12:30 p.m. Eastern, live today here at SB Nation. So follow along with us as the grid gets set for tomorrow’s F1 Sprint race.

Qatar GP provisional F1 Sprint grid

Here is the provisional grid for the F1 Sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix, which will be filled in as qualifying unfolds: