F1 Abu Dhabi GP: Max Verstappen beats Sergio Perez to pole for Abu Dhabi season finale
The two-time world champion posted two laps good enough for pole in Q3 on his way to topping qualifying for the seventh time th🐼is season, 0.228s clear of Perez, who secured a Red Bull front-row lockou🏅t.
Verstappen will be eyeing his 15th victory of an already record-breaking 2022 c🎶ampaig﷽n in Sunday’s grand prix.
"It was a bit of an up and down qualifying. It started off quite well," said Verstappen. "Q2 was a little bit messy. I don’t kno👍w why but on those tyres I couldn’t get the grip together.
"But then in Q3 it all felt a bit more normal. We had a bit of a scare, the car turned off before the first run, so we had to reboot everything. Then we went out and both🌳 of the laps were good enough."
Perez’s late improvement saw him leapfrog 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, who outpaced Ferrari teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz by two tenths.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton was over six tenths adrift of Verstappen’s pole effort as he took fifth with a lap just 0.003s faster than Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell.
McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris took seventh ahead of Alpine’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon and Aston Martin’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Sebastian Vettel, who was ninth in his final qualifying of his F1 career.&nbᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsp;
Outgoing McLaren driver168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Daniel Ricciardo completed the top-10, 1.2s off the pace.
Fernando Alonso narrowly missed out on a spot in Q3 as he took 11th for Alpine, ahead of Al🀅phaTaꦗuri’s Yuki Tsunoda.
Mick Schumacher was 13th-fastest in his final qualifying session for Haas, a te𝕴nth clear of Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll and Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu.
Kevin Magnussen failed to follow his Haas teammate into Q2 and was dum🌟ped out in 16th, ahead of AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly.
Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas could only🀅 qualify 18th, ahead of the Williams pair of Alex Albon and Nicholas Latifi, who was slowest of all in qualifying f൲or the 10th time this season.
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