F1 Bahrain GP 2025 LIVE: Qualifying latest updates, schedule, results and race start time – UK Times

So a fair bit of pressure on at Red Bull here, with both Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda yet to set a time ahead of the final runs in Q1!

Current bottom-five (16-20): Stroll, Hadjar, Bortoleto, Verstappen, Tsunoda

It doesn’t matter until Q3, but early gauntlet thrown from Norris as he goes two-tenths quicker than Piastri at the top!

At the bottom, both Red Bull drivers yet to set a time!

Current bottom-five (16-20): Stroll, Hadjar, Bortoleto, Verstappen, Tsunoda

Verstappen’s first lap is wrecked at the end as he slides off track!

Lap time deleted. And his Red Bull teammate Yuki Tsunoda has his lap time deleted too!

12:00 to go in Q1 – over half the grid still to set a flying lap!

Here we go then for qualifying!

Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg the first car out on track!

Q1 – 18 minutes where we will lose the slowest five drivers from the rest of qualifying!

The fourth grand prix qualifying of the 2025 season then!

We’ve had three different pole-sitters so far this year, and four if you include Lewis Hamilton in the China sprint!

Oscar Piastri is the favourite here, while Lando Norris will also be eyeing top spot!

McLaren’s to lose, me thinks…

The table-toppers in all three practice sessions, can anyone upset the form book and stop the papaya in qualifying?

Oscar Piastri has looked quicker than teammate Lando Norris and, after his stunning pole-setting lap in Japan last week, you’d be foolish to write off Max Verstappen!

And what about Ferrari and Mercedes? We’ll find out in 10 minutes!

TOP-10 – DRIVER STANDINGS

1. Lando Norris – 62 points

2. Max Verstappen – 61 points

3. Oscar Piastri – 49 points

4. George Russell –45 points

5. Kimi Antonelli – 30 points

6. Charles Leclerc – 20 points

7. Alex Albon – 18 points

8. Lewis Hamilton – 15 points

9. Esteban Ocon – 10 points

10. Lance Stroll – 10 points

“I was so excited about the race that I didn’t even sweat,” Pedro De la Rosa tells The Independent. “I didn’t drink at all – back then if you didn’t put in a drinks bottle, you saved weight on the car. So, we didn’t even fit it.”

Performance over health? He won’t be the last in F1. Yet the second iteration of the Bahrain Grand Prix, 20 years ago, was the most extreme example in the sport’s 75-year history of drivers prioritising pace over physical condition. At 42.6C, beating 40C temperatures in Dallas and Detroit in the mid-1980s, it was the hottest F1 race ever.

“We’ve got an upgrade this weekend, I’m excited,” he said on media day in Bahrain.

“We should hopefully have a bit more downforce. I’m not feeling a huge amount of issues, we lack overall performance at the moment pace-wise.

“Hopefully we take a step this weekend. From my side, it’s rear-end – and that’s it.”