Beautiful qualification in Austin, with Max Verstappen who with a final twist takes pole position in the United States GP. Great duel with Hamilton, who has to be satisfied with second place ahead of Perez and Bottas. The Finn, however, penalized, will leave the second row to Leclerc, 5th ahead of Sainz.
Q3: Lewis and Max, what turns
Two sensational laps by the stars of this world championship, who in the final of Q3 both throw their hearts over the obstacle. Despite a not exceptional first attempt, in the second run Hamilton gives his rival a hard time, but he responds with a 1’32″910 which earned him a very important pole position, doing better than the Englishman by 209 thousandths. Third Perez at 0 “224, with the Mexican who in the first attempt had the provisional pole in his hand. Fourth Bottas at 0” 565, who, however, will slip to ninth position for the replacement of the internal combustion engine. Ferrari, with Leclerc (+0 “696) climbing to the second row while Sainz (+0” 882) moving up to fifth position. Behind the Ferrari drivers are the McLarens of Ricciardo and Norris, then Gasly. In the fifth row Bottas will be joined by Tsunoda.
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Q2: almost all with the yellow
In the qualifying part that decides which tires the top ten will start with, most of the riders choose to make their attempt with the medium compound: everyone succeeds except Sainz and Tsunoda, who will be the only ones starting tomorrow with the soft one. qualified in Q3. Eliminated Ocon (despite the good wake of Alonso), Vettel, Giovinazzi, Alonso and Russell, with the latter victim of the cancellation of his time trial due to track limits. However, the results of Q2 are to be reviewed for the actual grid: Vettel, Russell and Alonso will be penalized for the replacement of the Pu components.
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Q1: Stroll out right away
A first qualifying segment without any particular surprises, even if after the good impressions of the free practice few would have bet on the exclusion of Lance Stroll, out with the 16th time by only 63 thousandths of a delay against Giovinazzi, last of the qualified. Along with the Canadian out also Latifi, Raikkonen, Schumacher and Mazepin.
The starting grid
Fila 1: 1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) 1’32″901 2. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) +0″209
Row 2: 3. Sergio Perez (Red Bull) +0 “224 4. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) +0” 696
Row 3: 5. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) +0 “882 6. Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren) +0” 898
Row 4: 7. Lando Norris (McLaren) +0 “977 8. Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) +1” 208
Row 5: 9. Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) (penalty) 10. Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri) +2 “008
Row 6: 11. Esteban Ocon (Alpine) 12. Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo)
Fila 7: 13. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) 14. Nicholas Latifi (Williams)
Fila 8: 15. Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo) 16. Mick Schumacher (Haas)
Fila 9: 17. Nikita Mazepin (Haas) 18. Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin)
Fila 10: 19. George Russell (Williams) 20. Fernando Alonso (Alpine)
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