After five race weekends and eight qualifying sessions, McLaren, Ferrari, and Mercedes have all seen remarkably small gaps between their drivers. Based on each driver's fastest qualifying lap in every session, we've calculated the average teammate gap across the season so far.

The results are shown below.

McLaren

Norris

Piastri

- 0.0350 sec.

.+ 0.0350 sec.

Ferrari

LeClerc

Hamilton

- 0.0357 sec.

+ 0.0357 sec.

Mercedes

Antoneli

Russel

- 0.0753 sec.

+ 0.0753 sec.

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Difference %

🇦🇺 AUS

105.205

🇨🇳 CHI

103.663

🇯🇵 JPN

103.861

🇺🇸 MIA

104.363

🇨🇦 CAN

103.928

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