Verstappen overtakes Senna on the list of most poles with a single team, Sainz becomes the first Williams driver to reach Q3 at COTA since 2016 and Bearman equals Haas’ best-ever Texas qualifying result. Here are the facts and statistics from qualifying at the 2025 United States Grand Prix!
VERSTAPPEN ON POLE AT THE 2025 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX
Max Verstappen secured pole position for the 2025 United States Grand Prix. This was the 47th pole position of Verstappen’s career and his seventh of the 2025 season.
Verstappen overtook Ayrton Senna for third on the list of most pole positions with a single team. This was Verstappen’s 47th pole with Red Bull, while Senna recorded 46 poles with McLaren during his career.
Verstappen became the fourth driver to take multiple pole positions at Circuit of The Americas. His pole ended a streak of six consecutive different polesitters at the United States Grand Prix.
Red Bull became the fifth team to record as many as 110 pole positions in Formula 1.
IN THE TOP TEN
Lando Norris qualified on the front row at the United States Grand Prix for the third season in a row.
With third place, Charles Leclerc recorded his best qualifying result since taking pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Qualifying fourth, George Russell qualified in the top six for an 11th consecutive race weekend – the longest active streak of any driver. This was Russell’s best qualifying result to date at COTA.
Oscar Piastri qualified sixth for the 2025 United States Grand Prix. After qualifying in the top four at all of the first 16 races of the year, this is the second time in the last three rounds that he has qualified outside of the top five.
Piastri remains yet to out-qualify his team-mate for a Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas in any of his three visits to the track.
Carlos Sainz became the first Williams driver to reach Q3 at COTA since both Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas qualified in the top ten in 2016.
This was the sixth United States Grand Prix weekend in a row at which Sainz has qualified in the top ten. Ninth place marks his worst qualifying result at COTA since 2018.
For the first time in his career, Ollie Bearman reached Q3 at consecutive races. With eighth place in qualifying for the 2025 United States Grand Prix, Bearman equalled his best qualifying result of the season so far. He also qualified eighth for the British Grand Prix, but was demoted to 18th on the final grid.
Bearman equalled Haas’ best-ever qualifying result at the United States Grand Prix. This was only the third time that a Haas driver reached Q3 at COTA. With eighth place, Bearman equalled the team’s best qualifying result at the circuit, previously recorded by Romain Grosjean in 2018.
Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri maintained their record of reaching Q3 on every appearance to date at the United States Grand Prix. Kimi Antonelli and Ollie Bearman joined them in the club, of which Michael Schumacher and Mark Webber are the only other members.
Fernando Alonso reached Q3 for the fifth time in the last six races.
ELIMINATED IN Q2
Yuki Tsunoda failed to reach Q3 for the tenth time in the last 13 race weekends. He became only the third Red Bull driver – after Sebastian Vettel in 2014 and Max Verstappen in 2018 – to fail to reach Q3 at COTA.
2025 is the fourth season in a row in which Tsunoda has been eliminated in Q2.
Nico Hulkenberg remains the only driver yet to reach Q3 in 2025. For the second race weekend in a row, he qualified 11th for the United States Grand Prix.
This was the first time since 2018 that Hulkenberg out-qualified his team-mate at the United States Grand Prix.
After recording double Q1 exits at each of the last three race weekends, both Alpine drivers progressed to Q2 at the 2025 United States Grand Prix.
With 14th place, this was the first time that Pierre Gasly did not qualify on the back row of the grid since the Dutch Grand Prix.
Gasly remains yet to be out-qualified by a team-mate on any of his seven appearances at COTA – though this was his worst qualifying result to date at the track.
Franco Colapinto progressed to Q2 for the first time since the Hungarian Grand Prix, this being only the second time he has not exited in Q1 in the last eight race weekends.
Liam Lawson has exited in Q2 on both of his appearances to date at the United States Grand Prix.
2021 remains the last time that a driver for the Red Bull junior team reached Q3 at COTA.
Nico Hulkenberg was out in Q2 at the 2025 United States Grand Prix. Recording his fifth Q2 exit at COTA, he overtook Daniil Kvyat for the most Q2 eliminations at COTA.
OUT IN Q1
After having his final lap time deleted, Alex Albon was out in Q1 at the United States Grand Prix for the third year in a row.
Albon’s Q1 exit made this the eighth successive United States Grand Prix weekend at which at least one Williams driver has exited in the first part of qualifying.
Lance Stroll exited in Q1 for the fourth time in the last five race weekends.
Qualifying 17th for the 2025 United States Grand Prix, Esteban Ocon was out in Q1 for the fifth time in the last six races. This was the first time since 2022 that he exited in Q1 at COTA.
Gabriel Bortoleto recorded consecutive Q1 exits for the first time since the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix.
Isack Hadjar crashed out early on in qualifying for the 2025 United States Grand Prix and failed to set a lap time. He recorded the Red Bull junior team’s first Q1 exit at Circuit of The Americas since 2017.
Hadjar exited in Q1 for only the second time in his career. He was also out in Q1 for the Italian Grand Prix, where he qualified 16th.