F1 starting grid: What is the grid order for the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix?

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F1 cars navigate Turn 3 at the start of the Chinese GP sprint with Lewis Hamilton leading Max Verstappen

Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari SF-25) leads the pack out of Turn 3 at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix sprint race

Who will start where for the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix? Let’s take a look at the full F1 starting grid for Sunday’s main race from the Shanghai International Circuit.

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri will start on pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix, with George Russell second for Mercedes.

F1 starting grid: Grid order for the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix

Piastri’s McLaren team-mate and F1 2025 Championship leader Lando Norris will start third after abandoning his final qualifying lap, with the Red Bull of reigning World Champion Max Verstappen joining him on the second row of the grid.

Lewis Hamilton, who took victory in the sprint race on Saturday in Shanghai, leads an all-Ferrari third row having edged out team-mate Charles Leclerc to secure fifth.

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Isack Hadjar bounced back strongly from his disastrous Australian Grand Prix to claim seventh ahead of fellow rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli.

Hadjar’s Racing Bulls team-mate Yuki Tsunoda will line up ninth with Williams driver Alex Albon completing the top 10.

Elsewhere, Carlos Sainz starts 15th as his muted start to life with Williams continues, with Verstappen’s new Red Bull team-mate Liam Lawson will start from the pit lane after Red Bull made suspension setting changes.

F1 starting grid: 2025 Chinese Grand Prix

1 Oscar Piastri, McLaren

2 George Russell, Mercedes

3 Lando Norris, McLraen

4 Max Verstappen, Red Bull

5 Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari

6 Charles Leclerc, Ferrari

7 Isack Hadjar, Racing Bulls

8 Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes

9 Yuki Tsunoda, Racing Bulls

10 Alex Albon, Williams

11 Esteban Ocon, Haas

12 Nico Hulkenberg, Sauber

13 Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin

14 Lance Stroll, Aston Martin

15 Carlos Sainz, Williams

16 Pierre Gasly, Alpine

17 Oliver Bearman, Haas

18 Jack Doohan, Alpine

19 Gabriel Bortoleto, Sauber

Liam Lawson, Red Bull – pit lane

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