It was a McLaren shootout for pole position at Formula One’s 2025 Qatar Grand Prix, and Oscar Piastri came out on top, beating Lando Norris by 0.108 seconds. Behind, Max Verstappen and George Russell will make up the second row on the grid for Sunday’s main race.

Full LIVE text commentary as it happened for the 2025 F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix Qualifying session at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit in Nevada, United States

Follow along with SB Nation as Lando Norris, Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri, and the rest of the grid fight for pole in the F1 Sprint Race at the Qatar Grand Prix

The penultimate race weekend of the 2025 Formula One season is underway, with Max Verstappen’s Las Vegas victory in the previous round — along with the dramatic disqualification of both McLaren drivers — meaning the drivers’ championship is now a genuine three-way fight.

Max Verstappen kept his calm amid the chaos during a qualifying session in Azerbaijan that was stopped on six separate occasions due to a litany of accidents. Verstappen scored pole position, his sixth of the campaign, but behind the reigning world ...

Hamilton, who qualified 20th, misjudged the red-light on the Vegas straight and could have set another timed lap