Overview
- Piastri set a 1:11.546 lap to clinch his fourth pole of the season, outpacing Norris by 0.209 seconds.
- McLaren secured its first front-row lockout in Barcelona since 1998, unaffected by FIA’s tighter front wing flex tests.
- Max Verstappen will start third ahead of George Russell after both posted identical times but Verstappen set his lap first.
- Lewis Hamilton battled back to fifth for Ferrari and is targeting his first podium with the team, with Charles Leclerc down in seventh.
- McLaren’s constructors’ lead stands at 319 points versus Mercedes’ 147, and Yuki Tsunoda qualified 20th as Red Bull’s second car faltered.