F1 2024: Head-to-head qualifying record between team-mates

Beating your team-mate is vital in race trim, and in F1 2024, as with every season, doing so in qualifying is also extremely important.

Qualifying sets up any driver’s race and, if a driver can show their quality when they are on low fuel and the pressure is on over one lap, it can be a massive psychological boost within the garage as a crucial battle unfolds between team-mates. Here’s a look at how each F1 2024 team-mate battle is unfolding in qualifying so far.

F1 2024: Qualifying head-to-head by team

F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying stats: Red Bull

Max Verstappen 22-1 Sergio Perez
Sprint qualifying: Max Verstappen 6-0 Sergio Perez

After a hugely one-sided 20-2 qualifying record in Verstappen’s favour last season, that was matched on the track in races as he romped home to a third consecutive Drivers’ Championship.

While Perez was able to take a career-best P2 finish come season’s end, Verstappen finished with more than double the points tally of his team-mate, and in qualifying in particular he held his team-mate at arm’s length.

In 2024, Verstappen appeared to tighten his grip on qualifying in particular – becoming the first driver since Alain Prost in 1993 to take pole at each of the first six rounds of the season, meaning Perez would have needed to set a pole-worthy time to beat him. He added to that by whitewashing his team-mate at every opportunity in the first half of the season in both qualifying and the Sprints.

Perez finally got one on the board against Verstappen at Baku, a specialist circuit for the Mexican. But with just a couple of qualifying sessions still be run, that remains the only time Perez has beaten Verstappen.

But when it comes to Sprint qualifying, it’s been all Verstappen who has whitewashed his team-mate.

F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying record: Mercedes

Lewis Hamilton 5-18 George Russell
Sprint qualifying: Lewis Hamilton 1-5 George Russell

Having been dubbed ‘Mr Saturday’ for his performances in qualifying with Williams, George Russell has shown himself to be more than a match for Hamilton on the other side of the Mercedes garage.

In fact, their qualifying record was the closest on the entire grid in 2023, with an 11-11 draw in who was faster come the end of the season.

Russell had gone 5-0 up on Hamilton in the early stages of 2024 before Hamilton pulled one back in Miami, getting off the mark for the season, but Russell opened up an impressive 10-2 advantage by the halfway mark.

In a season in which Hamilton has not shown the qualifying pace of yesteryears, Russell took an unassailable lead in Baku and has since extended it to 17-5.

F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying record: Ferrari

Charles Leclerc 14-8 Carlos Sainz
Sprint qualifying: Charles Leclerc 3-3 Carlos Sainz
Charles Leclerc 1-0 Oliver Bearman

Charles Leclerc has long been seen as one of the best drivers in Formula 1 over one lap, and despite the Ferrari drivers only being separated by six points at the end of 2023, Leclerc beat Carlos Sainz 15-7 in the qualifying head-to-head last time out.

Sainz has been unable to record on its head in his final season with Ferrari, before he makes way for Lewis Hamilton in 2025. He’s fallen 8-13 behind his team-mate meaning he cannot win the battle.

Sainz sat out the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix with appendicitis – with British teenager Oliver Bearman stepping in for his Formula 1 debut. Leclerc was quicker than the Briton in that qualifying.

F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying record: McLaren

Lando Norris 20-3 Oscar Piastri
Sprint qualifying: Lando Norris 4-2 Oscar Piastri

Oscar Piastri outpaced Lando Norris seven times in his rookie season in qualifying, and while 15-7 looks a comfortable victory margin in this regard for his more experienced team-mate, almost all of Piastri’s qualifying ‘wins’ came in the second half of the season.

Bank on the battle at McLaren looking much closer in 2024, though Norris remains one of the sport’s best qualifiers and racers.

Norris continued to extend his gap in qualifying come the halfway stage over his team-mate, opening up a 10-2 lead over his team-mate. But while Piastri did pull one back in Baku, it’s Norris who has already won the F1 2024 battle at McLaren with races to spare.

F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying record: Aston Martin

Fernando Alonso 18-5 Lance Stroll
Sprint qualifying: Fernando Alonso 3-3 Lance Stroll

In one of the more one-sided battles of last season in both qualifying and race form, Fernando Alonso qualified ahead of Lance Stroll 19 times out of 22.

While Stroll’s form picked up towards the end of the season, the two-time World Champion will look to maintain that advantage if he can throughout 2024.

It had not all been plain sailing for Alonso, however, having held a 7-5 advantage at the halfway point of the season as Stroll has improved his one-lap pace relative to the two-time World Champion.

But that’s where Stroll’s qualifying victories ended, Alonso racing out to an unassailable lead.

F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying record: Alpine

Esteban Ocon 11-12 Pierre Gasly
Sprint qualifying: Esteban Ocon 2-4 Pierre Gasly

Pierre Gasly arrived at Alpine in 2023 and quickly seized the initiative as holding the upper hand in qualifying trim in particular, out-qualifying Esteban Ocon 14-8 last season.

He also outscored his compatriot and long-time rival in the Drivers’ Championship standings come season’s end, with Alpine disappointed to fall down the order compared to their rivals.

Ocon turned that on its head in the first half of 2024, however, outqualifying Gasly 8-4 come the halfway point, despite the confirmation he will leave the team at the end of the season. But while Gasly had the better in the second half to draw level at 10-10, Ocon took the advantage in Brazil where he had his best qualifying of the season with a P4.

F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying record: Williams

Alex Albon 13-0 Logan Sargeant*
Sprint qualifying: Alex Albon 1-2 Logan Sargeant

Alex Albon 6-2 Franco Colapinto
Sprint qualifying: Alex Albon 2-1 Franco Colapinto

In the only whitewash in qualifying in 2023, Alex Albon was ahead of rookie driver Logan Sargeant at all 22 rounds last season.

Sargeant took his first ever out-qualification over Albon in Sprint qualifying in Miami, but did not beat Albon over one lap for a race qualifying session at all before being replaced by Williams junior Franco Colapinto at the Italian Grand Prix.

As with Sargeant, Albon has had the better of Colapinto in qualifying where he’s beaten him in five of seven sessions.

*Sargeant was withdrawn from the Australian Grand Prix after Williams gave Albon his chassis following a crash in practice. Albon was also disqualified from Dutch Grand Prix qualifying for a technical infringement, while Sargeant did not take part in the session after a practice crash.

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F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying record: RB

Daniel Ricciardo 6-12 Yuki Tsunoda
Sprint qualifying: Daniel Ricciardo 2-1 Yuki Tsunoda

Liam Lawson 0-5 Yuki Tsunoda
Sprint qualifying: Liam Lawson 2-1 Yuki Tsunoda

Yuki Tsunoda had three different team-mates to try and out-race and outqualify last season in the form of Nyck de Vries, Liam Lawson and Daniel Ricciardo – with the Honey Badger signed for the full season for 2024.

It wass Tsunoda who held a clear edge in traditional qualifying prior to Ricciardo being replaced by Lawson in Austin.

As with Ricciardo, Tsunoda has had the better of Lawson, whitewashing him as it stands with two races remaining, though Lawson won 2-1 in the mini-battle in Sprint qualifying.

F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying record: Kick Sauber

Valtteri Bottas 20-3 Zhou Guanyu
Sprint qualifying: Valtteri Bottas 5-1 Zhou Guanyu

Having beaten Zhou Guanyu comfortably last season, Valtteri Bottas has held a reputation as a strong qualifier throughout his time in Formula 1 and a positive head-t0-head against the Finn would be a feather in Zhou’s cap come season’s end.

Bottas started the season in flying form over one lap too, taking an almighty lead against Zhou who finally stopped the rot at Silverstone.

That was Zhou’s only qualifying ‘win’ over his team-mate of 2024 before Las Vegas, though, Bottas having sat on a 20-1 lead ahead of the season’s final triple-header.

F1 2024 head-to-head qualifying record: Haas

Kevin Magnussen 6-15 Nico Hulkenberg
Sprint qualifying: Kevin Magnussen 2-3 Nico Hulkenberg

Oliver Bearman 2-0 Nico Hulkenberg
Sprint qualifying: Oliver Bearman 1-0 Nico Hulkenberg

While race pace and tyre degradation proved a big problem for Haas in 2023, what they were able to do over one lap – in the hands of Nico Hulkenberg in particular – was vastly different.

The German beat Kevin Magnussen 15-7 in this head-to-head last time around, with the Dane having looked to reduce that gap and overturn it.

Ollie Bearman was a stand-in for Magnussen in Azerbaijan, while the full-time Haas driver was suspended for accruing 12 penalty points, also standing in for the Dane while he was unwell in Brazil. Bearman beat Hulkenberg in both Brazilian qualifying sessions.

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