F1 qualifying results: Spanish Grand Prix qualifying coverage

Another thrilling qualifying hour awaits the Formula 1 grid at the Spanish Grand Prix. The sport’s latest triple-header concludes with this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix from Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, and today brings one final hour of practice ahead of the all-important qualifying hour.

The week began with rampant speculation about a new Technical Directive from F1’s governing body, aimed at the “flexi-wings” that have become a major talking point over the past two seasons. While the sport imposed restrictions on rear wings to begin the year, more stringent requirements — and testing — went into effect this week.

While some in the paddock believed this would be a “gamechanger” in the pecking order, that has yet to materialize, at least based on Friday’s two hours of practice. Both McLaren drivers were strong in FP1 and FP2, with Lando Norris topping the timing sheets in FP1 and teammate Oscar Piastri leading the way in FP2.

Yet several teams and drivers are lurking, and with one more hour of practice ahead of qualifying, there is still more for the teams to learn.

We will have today’s qualifying session covered live, so check back early and often!

Note: All updates are in Eastern time

Updates ahead of qualifying

9:41: F1TV looking at the two fastest laps from Piastri and Norris in FP3. You can see where Piastri was best thanks to telemetry data courtesy of F1-Tempo:

9:30: And we are live.

If you are excited there is another live blog for qualifying this morning, you can thank the weather gods. Heavy rains here in Maryland washed out today’s travel baseball double-header, not only saving me a two-hour drive this morning but allowing me to settle in to watch some qualifying. So, there’s that.

Notes from FP3

It was another command performance from Team Papaya in FP3.

Piastri topped the timing sheets in the third and final hour of practice, with a blazing lap of 1:12.387. Norris finished in P2 behind his teammate with a time of 1:12.913, over a half-second behind Piastri’s pace.

Piastri and Norris are the only two drivers to go below 1:13.000 so far this week. Piastri has posted two laps in the 1:12 range this week, first in FP2 on Friday and then his thunderous effort in FP3.

Charles Leclerc finished third in FP3 with a lap of 1:13.130, 0.743 seconds behind Piastri.

Here are the full results from FP3: