McLaren’s Oscar Piastri will start today’s 2025 Spanish Grand Prix on pole position after beating Lando Norris with a stunning lap in qualifying. Piastri leads his McLaren team-mate Norris by three points after eight races in the 2025 World Drivers’ Championship standings.

SportsLine's model analyzes Red Bull's Max Verstappen, McLaren's Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri and the rest of the starting grid's chances at the 2025 F1 Spanish GP

While Piastri's victory was never in doubt, the real drama happened further back in the field with Max Verstappen. Here's what went down in Spain.

Spanish Grand Prix delivered an exciting blend of action and drama which resulted in McLaren once again grabbing

As noted by Mario Isola, Pirelli’s Director of Motorsport, the circuit is a “severe test for car and tire performance,” and it is a race that puts “significant stress” on the tires. As such Pirelli brings the hardest compounds in their range to this circuit — the C1 as the hard, the C2 as the medium, and the C3 as the soft.

That was certainly easy to spot looking at the odds before and immediately after Saturday's session. Piastri moved from a +140 co-favorite with Norris to win the Spanish Grand Prix before qualifying to -175 after securing P1. Norris wasn't far behind, but fell slightly from +140 to +175.

Oscar Piastri dominated Formula One’s 2025 Spanish Grand Prix to win ahead of his McLaren teammate Lando Norris and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. Max Verstappen had long threatened the leaders by unleashing a three-stop strategy to their two,

Formula One have advanced a major shake up to the 2026 race calendar as a new track is set to make its debut, replacing an iconic circuit.