Red Bull's Max Verstappen, the four-time world champion, has won twice but is third and 25 points behind Piastri. "It's a great feeling to be in the lead of the championship and to have more points than everyone, but it's not something I look at," Norris told reporters at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Thursday.

Oscar Piastri took a brilliant pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix in Saturday's qualifying, smashing the largest margin of qualifying victory for the 2025 season. The championship leader beat team-mate Lando Norris by more than two tenths of a second with a dominant lap,

McLaren's Lando Norris has topped first practice at Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix, having headed Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona. Friday's hot opening session was used as a testing ground for various upgrades across most of the teams,