Lando Norris heads all-McLaren front-row in Hungary as Sergio Perez’s woes continue
Lando Norris heads McLaren🐲 front row lockout in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying, reports Lewis Larkam from Buda🥃pest.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris spearheaded McLaren's first front row lockout in qualifying in 12 years at the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix, as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s recent woes continued.
Norris pipped McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri by just 0.022s to cla🍰im his third pole position in a thrilling and tight qualifying session threatened by light rain. It marks the first time 🐟since Brazil 2012 that McLaren’s cars have finished first and second in qualifying.
"Very, very happy," Norris said in parc ferme. "Not an easy qualifying, different conditionsꦜ like that, but always ending up on top is the best part of it all. Especially for the team, a one-two is even better, so congrats to the team.
"We have already got conܫfidence, so it's not like we need a lot more of it or we are searching for it. We have come into this weekend off the back of the last few happy and confident we can do a good job and we have a good car to fight for pole, which is what we did today.
"We are in th🦩e best position for whatever the conditions throw at us. Two cars at the front row, we can control it from there, so as long as we stay where we൲ are we'll be happy."
Max Verstappen was only 0.046s down on Norris’ pole time as he had to settle with third place on t✤he grid in his upgraded Red Bull.
Meanwhile, his Red Bull t🌌eammate Perez suffered his latest qualifying nightmare.
Under increasing pressure⛦ to retain his seat, the Mexican slammed into the Turn 8 barriers after spinning off in damp conditions during Q1.
Perez c🥀ould take no fuꦑrther part in the session and will start no higher than 16th pending any penalties for damage.
Carlos Sainz was fourth-fastest, some four tenths🎐 adrift, ahead of Mercedes’ Lewis H🃏amilton in fifth and Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc.
Fernando Alonso 🧜headed Aston Martin teammate Lance Stroll in seventh, with the RB duo of Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda rounding out the top-1꧋0 in a rare double Q3 appearance.
A heavy crash for Tsunoda caused Q3 to be red-flagged with just over two minutes ✱le🍌ft on the clock, but only Ricciardo could improve his time with the session eventually restarted.
Nico Hulkenberg missed out on a spot in Q3 by just 0.010s as ꦓhe took 11th for Haas, ahead of Sauber’s Valtteri Bottas.
T🐻he Williams pair of 𓂃Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant were 13th and 14th, with Kevin Magnussen 15th in the other Haas.
George Russell suffered a shock Q1 elimination after a s𒐪c☂ruffy session left him only 17th on the grid.
The Mercedes driver could not find the improvement he needed in the tricky condit𒅌ions before others around him found more time in the dying moments of the session.
“Yeah, sorry about this session guys. It’s on me,” Russell conceded over tওeam radio.
Zhou Guanyu was 18th for Sauber, ahead of the Alpine duo of Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly, who ended up slowest 🐻of all after a decision to stay in the pits for the f𒊎inal laps backfired spectacularly.
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