Antonelli Takes U.S. Grand Prix Pole Ahead of Verstappen
The official qualifying result puts the Mercedes driver first, with Isack Hadjar third.
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Kimi Antonelli. File photograph — 2025-10-17. Used for editorial context; this is not a photograph of the event reported in the article.Photo: Kuyper · Image source · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized for display; the layout may crop the photograph.Inset: Max Verstappen. File photograph — 2024-08-25. Used for editorial context; this is not a photograph of the event reported in the article. · Steffen Prößdorf · Source · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Kimi Antonelli secured pole position for the United States Grand Prix on October 24, Formula 1’s official report confirms. It was his seventh pole of the season. Max Verstappen qualified second, with Isack Hadjar third. The result establishes the qualifying order, not the outcome of Sunday’s race.
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The official event table records Antonelli at 1:34.035, Verstappen at 1:34.214 and Hadjar at 1:34.250. Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton occupy the next two places in that table. The gap between Antonelli and Verstappen was 0.179 seconds, calculated from the published times.
Qualifying and the final grid are separate records
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The qualifying classification is a timestamped result. Any later penalties, technical decisions or changes to starting arrangements should be checked against the final official grid. This report does not turn an earlier qualifying table into a guarantee that every driver will start from that position.
Kimi Antonelli. File photograph — 2025-10-17. Used for editorial context; this is not a photograph of the event reported in the article.Photo: Kuyper · Source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pole gives a driver the leading position for the start, but race pace involves tire use, traffic, strategy and reliability across many laps. The front-running times show a narrow qualifying contest. They cannot establish which car will manage a stint best or how the first corner will unfold. Those remain race questions.
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