A marathon qualifying session within the Sao Paulo rain has given us a really mixed-up grid for Sunday’s Grand Prix in Brazil, with McLaren’s Lando Norris on pole and the Crimson Bull of his championship rival Max Verstappen a lowly P16.
The Mercedes of George Russell joins Norris on the entrance row, with a delighted Yuki Tsunoda third for RB. Esteban Ocon has his best-ever grid slot right here with P4 for Alpine, whereas Liam Lawson backs up his RB crew mate with a formidable fifth.
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Charles Leclerc is the lead Ferrari in sixth, however his crew mate Carlos Sainz will begin from the pit lane after crashing out in Q2 after which taking up a brand new energy unit. Alex Albon was as a result of begin from P7, however his Williams was too closely broken to make the beginning after his large shunt in direction of the top of qualifying.
Meaning in seventh place (behind Albon’s empty grid slot) now we have the second McLaren of Oscar Piastri, adopted by the Aston Martins of Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll, each of who made the highest 10, regardless of each crashing out of qualifying.
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Stroll’s accident – see it right here – introduced out the crimson flags which meant championship chief Verstappen couldn’t enhance his Q2 time, therefore the Dutchman strains up on the eighth row after a five-place grid penalty for taking a brand new energy unit.
His Crimson Bull crew mate Sergio Perez begins 5 locations forward in eleventh, whereas the opposite driver considerably out of place is Lewis Hamilton, thirteenth in a Mercedes he was removed from proud of.
