Pit Lane F1
Round 5 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2018-05-13
Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) took pole for the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix with a 1:16.173 lap.
Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) joined the front row, 0.040s shy of pole, with Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) third on the grid. Romain Grosjean (Haas F1 Team) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Stoffel Vandoorne (McLaren) missed the cut by 0.488s.
Q3 was settled inside 1.662s — pole to P10 — with Romain Grosjean (Haas F1 Team) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:17.633 | 1:17.166 | 1:16.173 | 1:16.173 |
| 2 | 77Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:17.674 | 1:17.111 | 1:16.213 | +0.040 |
| 3 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:17.031 | 1:16.802 | 1:16.305 | +0.132 |
| 4 |
| 7Kimi Räikkönen |
| Ferrari |
| 1:17.483 |
| 1:17.071 |
| 1:16.612 |
| +0.439 |
| 5 | 3Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:17.411 | 1:17.266 | 1:16.816 | +0.643 |
| 6 | 3Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | 1:17.623 | 1:17.638 | 1:16.818 | +0.645 |
| 7 | 20Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 1:18.169 | 1:17.618 | 1:17.676 | +1.503 |
| 8 | 14Fernando Alonso | McLaren | 1:18.276 | 1:18.100 | 1:17.721 | +1.548 |
| 9 | 55Carlos Sainz | Renault | 1:18.480 | 1:17.803 | 1:17.790 | +1.617 |
| 10 | 8Romain Grosjean | Haas F1 Team | 1:18.305 | 1:17.699 | 1:17.835 | +1.662 |
| 11 | 2Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | 1:18.885 | 1:18.323 | — | +2.150 |
| 12 | 10Pierre Gasly | Toro Rosso | 1:18.550 | 1:18.463 | — | +2.290 |
| 13 | 31Esteban Ocon | Force India | 1:18.813 | 1:18.696 | — | +2.523 |
| 14 | 16Charles Leclerc | Sauber | 1:18.661 | 1:18.910 | — | +2.737 |
| 15 | 11Sergio Pérez | Force India | 1:18.740 | 1:19.098 | — | +2.925 |
| 16 | 27Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 1:18.923 | — | — | +2.750 |
| 17 | 9Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | 1:19.493 | — | — | +3.320 |
| 18 | 35Sergey Sirotkin | Williams | 1:19.695 | — | — | +3.522 |
| 19 | 18Lance Stroll | Williams | 1:20.225 | — | — | +4.052 |
| 20 | 28Brendon Hartley | Toro Rosso | — | — | — | — |