charles leclerc signed his private double pole position raw. surprised Max Verstappen on Friday with first position on the starting grid for Sunday’s race. And this Saturday morning, the Monegasque also secured pole position in the ‘shoot-out’ classification for the sprint race that will take place this Saturday afternoon (3:30 pm/DAZN F1). He Ferrari He has been strong by one lap since the start of the course and going into it raw he stepped forward. Leclerc will be able to aim to fight for victory in the short sleeve today, but it seems more difficult to expect a victory in Sunday’s round, as his long run and his greater degradation should not help him against red bull. At this moment, Max is not only surpassed by Charlesalso for a great ‘Czech’ Perez who made it through the second sector to be 2nd at 0″147 from Leclerc. Max was 3rd at 0″290, while Carlos Sainz could not repeat his fourth position due to a car accident leclerc in the last seconds.
Charles achieved the best time in his first time in a Q3 which in this new sprint weekend format, in this new ‘shoot-out’ classification, only allows the use of a new set of soft rubber in Q3 ( and one set of new medium for Q1 and another for Q2). However, in Baku everything will be tried one more time. Max and Pérez couldn’t better the Monegasque’s time in his second test, which was already on rubber. And Charles, trying to improve, ends up on his nose against the protections when he overbrakes.
That accident, certainly, hurt Carlos Sainz. The Spanish pilot was still not comfortable and was not there to fight for pole position, but he was there to match the fourth place he achieved in Friday’s qualy. He will try to improve his turn in that last attempt, but Sainz is surely the only driver behind Charles, the only one to face the Monegasque accident, that will prevent him from that turn. A reborn Russell took advantage of that after his poor qualifying on Friday in which he was 11th. This time, George took fourth position from Carlos, who will start today’s sprint race in 5th position, ahead of Hamilton (6th), Albon (7th) and the two Aston Martins of Alonso (8th) and Stroll ( 9th), with Norris in 10th position.
Fernando Alonso was also unable to fight for a possible fourth place as he again suffered intermittent problems with his DRS throughout qualifying, as he did in Friday’s qualifying. In yesterday’s qualy, Fernando saved the situation in 6th place. Now, in the ‘shoot-out’, he can only be 8th.
The man from Oviedo even shined for his collaboration midway through Q2 by giving Stroll a big slipstream on the main straight. At that time, Lance’s DRS wasn’t working either and the wake that Fernando gave him helped him get into Q3. Now, the two Aston Martins will try to move up a few positions in this afternoon’s sprint race to score some points. In a sprint race, 8 points are awarded to the winner, 7 to 2nd, 6 to 3rd, and so on until the 8th best car wins. Only 8 scores. Alonso will be looking to maximize his result in a weekend clearly marked by his DRS problems.
Source: La Verdad
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