The Englishman Lando Norris (McLaren) will start from pole this Sunday at the Mexico City Grand Prix, the twentieth of the Formula One World Championship, which is held at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in the Mexican capital; where the Spanish Carlos Sainz (Williams), who finished seventh in the main qualifying session, will start -due to the penalty of five places on the grid- twelfth.
Norris, 25, signed his fourteenth pole position in Formula One – the fifth of the year and the first since the Belgian Grand Prix – by dominating this Saturday’s qualifying, in which, in the decisive third round (Q3) he covered, with the soft tire, the 4,304 meters of the Mexican track in one minute, 15 seconds and 586 thousandths, 262 less than the Monegasque Charles Leclerc and with 352 over the other Ferrari, that of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.
The Australian Oscar Piastri (McLaren), leader of the World Championship – with 346 points, fourteen more than Norris – finished eighth in the qualification, but will come out, thanks to Sainz’s penalty, seventh; two places behind the Dutch quadruple world champion Max Verstappen (Red Bull), third in the championship, 40 points behind.
Another Englishman starts from fourth place, George Russell (Mercedes); and between ‘Mad Max’ and Piastri, from sixth, will be the other driver of the German team, the Italian debutant Andrea Kimi Antonelli; in a race in which the other Spaniard, the Asturian double world champion Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), will start fourteenth; and the Argentine Franco Colapinto (Alpine), twentieth.
Another ‘rookie’, the Frenchman Isack Hadjar (RB), and the Englishman Oli Bearman (Haas) – who also gain a place on the grid thanks to Sainz’s sanction – will start eighth and ninth, respectively this Sunday.
The Japanese Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull), eliminated in Q2 with the eleventh time, advances one place for the same reason and will start tenth, in a race scheduled for 71 laps, to complete a route of 305 and a half kilometers.
The Argentine Franco Colapinto from Alpine will start in 20th place.
With information from EFE.
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