Ferrari secure their first Grand Prix pole of the season, Leclerc overtakes Hakkinen in the all-time pole list and Aston Martin record their best qualifying result of the season. Here are the facts and statistics from qualifying at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix!
LECLERC ON POLE AT THE 2025 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX
Charles Leclerc took pole position for the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix, securing the 27th pole of his career. With that, he overtook Mika Hakkinen for 11th on the all-time list of most poles in Formula 1.
This was Leclerc’s first pole position since the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. It was his first pole at the Hungaroring, having never previously qualified on the front row here
Ferrari secured their first Grand Prix pole position of the season – though Lewis Hamilton took pole for the Sprint at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix.
This was Ferrari’s first pole at the Hungarian Grand Prix since Sebastian Vettel took pole in 2017. In total, this was Ferrari’s ninth pole position at the Hungaroring, equalling Mercedes and McLaren for the most poles at the track.
IN THE TOP TEN
For the third year in a row, both McLaren drivers qualified in the top four for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Lando Norris was out-qualified by his team-mate for the first time in his seven appearances at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
George Russell reached Q3 at the Hungarian Grand Prix for only the second time in his career. The only other time he has done so was in 2022, when he took pole position.
For only the second time this season, Aston Martin saw both of their drivers reach Q3.
Fernando Alonso became the first driver to qualify in the top ten on 18 occasions at the Hungarian Grand Prix. With fifth place, he equalled his best qualifying result of the season. He also qualified fifth at Imola.
This was Alonso’s best qualifying result in Hungary since 2014, when he also qualified fifth. 2010 was the last time he qualified higher than fifth at the track.
Lance Stroll ended a streak of four Q1 eliminations by reaching Q3 for the first time since the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. It was his second top ten qualification of the year.
This was Stroll’s first top six qualifying result since qualifying third at the 2023 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Gabriel Bortoleto reached Q3 for the third time in the last four races, recording consecutive Q3 appearances for the first time in his career.
Qualifying seventh for the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix, Bortoleto recorded his best qualifying result to date in Formula 1.
With eighth place, Max Verstappen recorded his worst qualifying result of the season to date at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix. It was the first time he qualified outside of the top seven since exiting in Q2 at the 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri all maintained their 100% Q3 appearance records at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
This was the second year in a row that the Red Bull junior team has seen both of their drivers reach Q3 at the Hungarian Grand Prix. The team recorded the same qualifying result as last year, with their drivers qualifying ninth and tenth.
Liam Lawson reached Q3 at consecutive races for the first time in his career.
Isack Hadjar made it into Q3 for the sixth time in the last eight races.
0.543 seconds separated Charles Leclerc’s pole position lap time and Isack Hadjar’s lap time for tenth place. It is the smallest gap between the top ten qualifiers in Formula 1 history.
ELIMINATED IN Q2
For only the second time in Budapest, Lewis Hamilton failed to reach Q3 at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix. This was his first Q2 elimination at the track, having exited in Q1 in 2014.
With 12th place, this was only the second time that Hamilton qualified outside of the top seven at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Kimi Antonelli failed to reach Q3 for the fifth time this year, qualifying 15th for the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix after his fastest lap time in Q2 – already not good enough to reach the top ten – was deleted.
This was the third year in a row that a Mercedes driver qualified outside of the top 14 at the Hungarian Grand Prix, with George Russell having been out in Q1 in the last two seasons.
Carlos Sainz was eliminated in Q2 for the third consecutive race. The 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix was the seventh consecutive race at which he failed to qualify in the top ten.
OUT IN Q1
Red Bull had never recorded a Q1 exit at the Hungarian Grand Prix prior to 2024. The team has now recorded two Q1 exits at the track in the last two seasons. Yuki Tsunoda qualified 16th for the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix.
This was Tsunoda’s fourth Q1 exit in the last eight races. During that period, the Belgian Grand Prix is the only time he reached Q3.
Tsunoda equalled the record for most Q1 exits at the Hungarian Grand Prix. This was his fourth Q1 elimination from his five appearances at the Hungaroring.
Pierre Gasly exited in Q1 for the first time since the Canadian Grand Prix and was out-qualified by his team-mate Franco Colapinto for the first time since then. This was the fourth year in a row that Gasly was out-qualified by his team-mate at the track.
This was Gasly’s third Q1 exit at the Hungarian Grand Prix in the last four years.
Nico Hulkenberg qualified 19th, recording his first-ever Q1 exit from his 12 appearances at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Hulkenberg qualified on the back row for the third time in the last four races.
Williams do not have the best qualifying record in recent seasons at the Hungaroring. Alex Albon qualified 20th for the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix, making this the fifth time in the last eight years that a Williams driver has qualified last for the event.
This was Albon’s second Q1 exit of the season – his first since the Bahrain Grand Prix.
This was the third time in his tenure at Williams that Albon has exited in Q1 at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
This is the first time Albon qualified last in a conventional qualifying session since setting the slowest time in qualifying for the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The only other time he has been slowest in a qualifying session was at the 2019 Chinese Grand Prix, where he failed to set a lap time.