Max Verstappen follow another world. Both at race pace and on a lap. And in case there was any doubt, the Dutchman took it upon himself to dismiss it in the classification of Saudi Arabian GP. One of the red bull he did not fail and took the pole Jeddah with incredible time: 1:27,472. He didn’t have to make a second attempt. Leclerc came close but was more than three tenths away. Pérez closed the TOP3 with Alonso, fourth, only 19 thousandths left on his time.
All the favorites for the pole were summoned in Q3. In the first attempt it was clear that Red Bull were the favourites. Verstappen It clocked 1:27.472. He lowered his previous Q2 time by seven tenths and took three tenths Perez and half to Alonso. Behind Leclerc, who was again complaining about the Ferrari’s braking, the Mercedes overtook but Fernando’s time was not beaten.
In Verstappen’s second attempt I didn’t have to squeeze his RB20 and no one could really come near and shake his pole. The one that came up was Leclerc with Ferrari but he still stayed at 0”319. In the same tenth place was Pérez, who failed to achieve the double for the Austrians.
Alonso tried to take an ace up his sleeve by catching Hamilton’s slipstream at the start of his lap but it was not enough to surprise the favourites. He was 19 thousandths behind the Mexican’s time and overtook the McLarens and the Mercedes.
Exactly in the battle between Woking and Brackley, it is McLaren the one that achieved a better starting position. Piastre He surprised his teammate Norris and finished 5th and 6th respectively. For his part, Russell beats a Hamilton, which was very discreet throughout the session. Without going any further, he marked the cutoff for Q2. In the end he was eighth ahead Tsunoda and Lance Strollwhich closed the TOP10 in almost eight tenths of Alonso’s time with the other Aston Martins.
Bearman, nowhere near achieving the feat
Q2 started in a mess after that Hulkenberg ran out of power and stopped his Haas in sector 1. The stewards raised the red flag when only a handful of drivers had completed a lap. bearman He did not make it to victory on his first day with Ferrari. With just a few breaks from filming with the SF-24, the 18-year-old Brit left 36 thousandths to get through to Q3. Behind him Albon, Magnussen and Ricciardo.
In Q1, Mercedes first tried with the medium rubber but it didn’t take them long to see that if they didn’t use the soft tire they couldn’t pass the first cut. As for those removed, there are no surprises. both Sauber They both stayed outside Alpine and the Williams of Sergeant. Zhou, after his accident in Free Practice 3, was unable to set a time. Sauber mechanics tried but could not fix the car in time.
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Source: La Verdad
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