Max Verstappen pips McLarens to Imola pole, shockers for Sergio Perez and Fernando Alonso
Max Verstappen beats the McLaren pair of Oscar Piastri🐲 and Lando Norris to pole at Imola.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen continued his 100 percent record of qualifying on pole position at the F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, but he🍒 was made to work for it.
The Red Bull driver had not topped a single session heading into qualifying, but bounced back from hi▨s struggles on Friday to secure his seventh straight pole of 2024 with a lap that was just 0.074s faster than McLaren’s Oscar Piastri.
"A really difficult weekend so far,💖 even this mornꦡing," Verstappen said. "So yeah, I’m incredibly happy to be on pole here. I didn’t expect that.
"W✅e made some final cha🐲nges before qualifying. They seemed to make it feel a bit better, I could push a bit harder.
"And this track is꧙ unbelievable, on a qualifying lap to be on the limit here, close to the gravel, I touched the gravel in the last corner - yeah I’m stil𒉰l pumping, the adrenaline is still very, very high."
F1’s newest winner Lando Norris, who was pipped to second place by his teammate, was third and just 0.091s🌳 shy of claiming pole himself.
After making a promising start to their first home race of the season🎉 at Imola, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz could not challenge for pole and ended up a disappointin෴g fourth and fifth.
George Russell took sixth ahead of RB’s Yuki Tsunodᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚa, who starred throughout qualifying on his way to splitting the Mercedes pair, with seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton nearly three-tenths slower than his Me🔯rcedes teammate.
Daniel Ricciardo ensured both RB drivers will start inside the top-10 at the Fa🅠enza-based outfit’s home race, ahead of Nico Hulkenberg, who grabbed 10ꩲth for Haas.
Sergio Perez was the surprise exit of Q2 as the Red Bull driver failed to progress i♛nto the final part of qualifying, ending up a disappointin🍰g 11th.
Alpine’s Esteban Ocon took 12th ahead of Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll and Williams’ Alex Albon, while Pierre G🎃ꦡasly was 15th.
Valtteri Bottas outpaced Sauber teammate Guanyu Zhou and Haas’ Kevin Magnus♚sen for 16🔯th.
Fernando Alonso had ꦑa shocker of a𝓀 qualifying and ended up suffering a shock Q1 elimination in 19th.
A trip thro🐻ugh the gravel ruined the Aston Martin driver’s first lap, bef🎃ore he backed out of his second run.
Logan Sargeant had set a time good enough for 17th in his Williams but had his lap deleted for exceeding track limits, a penalty which dropped him down to 20th a🐼nd last.
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