The 2025 Qatar Grand Prix weekend delivered one of the crucial sobering single-lap performances from Ferrari in current reminiscence. When the quickest lap from each single session – follow, qualifying and the race – is mixed, Ferrari ended up slower than seven different groups. That is the primary time because the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix that the Scuderia have been overwhelmed on final one-lap tempo by each constructor besides their two buyer groups, Haas and Sauber.
Quickest lap time of the weekend for every group (all periods mixed)
PosTeamFastest lap (approx.)Hole to fastest1McLaren79.20 s—2Red Bull79.40 s+0.20 s3Mercedes79.60 s+0.40 s4Racing Bulls79.80 s+0.60 s5Aston Martin80.00 s+0.80 s6Williams80.20 s+1.00 s7Alpine80.30 s+1.10 s8Ferrari80.40 s+1.20 s9Sauber80.50 s+1.30 s10Haas80.60 s+1.40 s
Notice: Occasions are visually approximated from the official weekend chart for readability. McLaren set absolutely the benchmark simply inside 79.2 seconds.
McLaren have been untouchable throughout the Losail weekend, posting the quickest single lap of any group in any session. Purple Bull and Mercedes accomplished a familiar-looking high three, whereas Racing Bulls as soon as once more confirmed spectacular one-lap kind.
The true shock comes additional down. Williams continued their robust late-2025 resurgence with the sixth-quickest final lap, whereas Alpine – a group that has struggled for a lot of the season – managed to put each vehicles forward of Ferrari on pure tempo.
Charles Leclerc did every thing he might to masks the SF-25’s shortcomings, dragging it into Q3 and admitting afterwards that the automotive had “zero efficiency” over a single lap. Even his greatest effort, and Lewis Hamilton’s, left Ferrari eighth general – overwhelmed not solely by the same old frontrunners but additionally by Aston Martin, Williams and Alpine.
A painful flashback to 2021
That is Ferrari’s least aggressive one-lap weekend relative to the sphere because the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix, when new flooring rules uncovered comparable weaknesses and so they additionally completed behind seven groups, with solely Haas and the then Alfa Romeo-branded Sauber slower.
4-and-a-half years later, the desert evening in Qatar produced an nearly equivalent story – a stark reminder that, even within the closing levels of the 2025 championship battle, Maranello can nonetheless have weekends the place the automotive merely lacks the outright single-lap pace to compete on the sharp finish.
Dec 1, 2025
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