If one thing is clear from this beginning of Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos Circuit are those single-seaters? McLaren they are doing well and the Max Verstappen’s Red Bull He has yet to find his best rhythm while waiting for what could happen on Sunday in the big race, where the Dutchman carries a five-position penalty.
If the British Lando Norris was the fastest in the first and only Free Practice session when a sprint race was held on Saturday, in the qualifying sessions he and his With the McLaren team, Oscar Piastrithey exchanged the honor of setting the best time, until the real fast race session, SQ3, Piastri fulfilled the good feelings he conveyed up to that moment by achieving pole position in the sprint race, with 1 :08.899, improvement. the SQ1 record by nearly two seconds after completing a total of 16 laps. behind him, Lando Norris with +0.029 and two laps less on the Brazilian track.
AND Verstappen, you may wonder? Max, who continues to lead the F1 World Championship but is closer to his great rival, Norris, had to settle for the fourth best time (+0.320), behind the first Ferrari driver, Leclerc ; Max flies through the first sectors of the Interlagos circuit, but fails to complete a frustrating turn.
“It was a complicated session, I felt comfortable at the start and the grip was working. On this track it’s hard to see where you’re going and make a fast lap. I’m happy that I achieved pole position in the sprint, it’s a challenging track tomorrow? I’ll try to win, but let’s see what the weather does,” he said. Piastre on the F1 microphones at the end of the third and final qualifying session of the sprint race.
Things got worse Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin. The double F1 champion went from better to less and after setting the 9th best time in Free Practice he was left in SQ2, like his teammate take a walk, in a new example of the desert journey that Aston Martin is going through.
This Saturday, from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm, the 24-lap sprint race, with qualifying for the Grand Prix on Sunday from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, in a race where the doubts of the team whether to mount the soft , as they did in the moment of truth in SQ3 or media betting.
The leader of the World Cup, Max Verstappen (Red Bull) starts the sprint race with a 47 point advantage Lando Norrisin a race where the winner gets eight points, seven for second and six for third, and so on down to the eighth, which adds one. A double chanceto Norris to continue to approach Max and for Verstappen to get closer to what would be his fourth title.
Source: La Verdad
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