The Quadruple Dutch World Champion Max Verstappen (Red Bull) will first be in the Grand Prix of Great Britain, the twelfth of the Formula One World Cup, in Silverstone, where in the qualification this Saturday he stole the prominence of the dominant McLaren; that they made up with the second and third place, respectively, of the Australian Oscar Piastri -leader of the championship -and English Lando Norris -second, at fifteen points.
Verstappen, 27, signed his fourth fourth ‘pole’ in the F1 – the fourth of the year, after those he achieved in Japan, Saudi and Miami (EU) – when flying in the third and decisive round (q3) of the main chronicle, in which he covered the 5,891 meters of the legendary English track in a minute, 24 seconds and 892 Thousands, 103 less than Piastri and with 118 on Norris. Third on a grill in which in the second row his compatriot George Russell (Mercedes) will be accompanied and in which the Spaniards Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Carlos Sainz (Williams) will be seventh and tenth, respectively.
Alonso concluded the main timed in ninth position. However, the sanctions of the young Italian Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) -which ended seventh, but loses three grill stalls to take Verstappen on the track in Austria -and the English Double Asturian world champion, again sensational to a month after turning 44, will start seventh on the track where he achieved two of his 32 victories: in 2006, the year he revalidated title; and in 2011.
Sainz, 30, who celebrated the first of his four wins in F1 three years ago in this circuit – session of the first race in the entire history of the queen category, in 1950 – he fell eliminated in Q2 with the eleventh time, but benefited from Bearman’s sanction and won a grill, in which the Argentine Franco Colapint From the twenty and last position.
The Monegasco Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) – who leaves sixth, in the third row and next to his partner, the septule English world champion Lewis Hamilton – had been the fastest in the morning, in the third and last free training: in which Sainz and Alonso marked the twelfth and the seventeenth time, respectively.
Leclerc (1: 25,498) improved in 68 thousandths to Piastri and 87 to the Dutch star, which, having had to retire last Sunday in Spielberg – after being rammed by the debutant Antonell – remains third in the championship, but now 61 points of the oceanic.
Norris marked the fourth time of the last essay, a tenth of Monegasco; of which Sainz had stayed at 834 thousandths. Alonso, who – unlike the previous ones – could not try soft rubber in the morning, due to the two red flags that they waved at the end of the session; He had invested, with the socks, a second and four tenths more than Leclerc.
The first red flag had waved in the absence of eight minutes, to remove from track, in the Stowe area – the sixteenth of the 18 circles of the circuit – some damage of Bearman’s Haas, which when entering boxes again damaged the front wing of his car and that was sanctioned with ten grill stalls for violating the procedure during the interruption.
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The second, which caused the definitive closure of the trial, occurred in the absence of just over a minute, for the track departure from the Brazilian debutante Gabriel Bortoleto in Becketts -the thirteenth curved -where he broke the left front suspension of his Kick Sauber.
These incidents caused that Alonso could not launch an attempt with the soft gums and that Sir Lewis-the man-row of the F1, which among his multiple plusmarks tells the largest number of victories in the same great prize: the nine he celebrated in this one-he had to abort two times turns in which he was rolling very quickly; before registering eleventh in the time table; With identical chrono that Sainz.
Colapinto, in his sixth Grand Prix since he returned to F1, could not run worse luck this Saturday. He marked the chrono decimoctavo, with soft tires, two seconds and a tenth of Monegasco, in the last essay. Before facing a qualification that came to an end before even the Q1 ended, in which Verstappen already warned, marking the best chrono, with 77 thousandths on Pastri.
The Buenos Aires lost control of Alpine after the last curve and ended up forcing another red flag – a lack of 6: 49 – since, although he managed to leave the gravel area, his car was stuck shortly after and had to be removed from the track by the crane.
The Canadian Lance Stroll, Alonso’s partner, also fell into the first act-in which the two Kick Sauber also left-so the internal rating duel in Aston Martin already favors the Astur genius for a very resounding 12-0.
Neozyre Liam Lawson (RB), who came from signing his best result in F1 at the end of sixth last Sunday in Austria, did not enter the Q2, in which the Williams of Sainz and his partner, the Thai Alex Albon were eliminated.
Nor did the other Red Bull, the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda. Making it clear that those responsible for the Austrian team were very unfair to Mexican Sergio Pérez, worldwide runner -up two years ago and who, after having renewed two seasons, decided to ‘cut’ at the end of 2024.
Of the 162 points with which the team led by Christian Horner occupies the fourth place in the World Cup of Constructors -in which McLaren (417) takes 207 to Ferrari-, all, except seven, he has joined them Verstappen. The fault was not ‘Czech’.
Hamilton, who among his 105 victories counts last year in the cradle of F1 – with which he raised his own historical record to nine, in Silverstone and on any other track – he encouraged his compatriots with the best time of the second round, in which he improved in 49 thousandths to Piastri, the best in the first attempt of the decisive Q3.
But Verstappen, which is not quadruple world champion by champion, uncovered the jar of the essences and invoke the insatiable ‘Mad Max’ again, on a track where the accelerator is thoroughly chopped for almost 80 percent of the layout.
With a lower car, he showed the McLaren, who, today, remains the best grid pilot; And, although it will not be easy, this Sunday will look for its third success of the course. With what would raise his payroll of victories to 66: the third in history.
Behind, Alonso returned to optimize resources and this Sunday will try to defend – or improve – the seventh place. Sainz will seek to again score, starting tenth, in a dot zone, in a race with which the World Cup will cross its Ecuador. Planned 52 laps, to complete 306.2 kilometers; and that will start at two in the afternoon (the three, in Spanish peninsular schedule: the 13.00 GMT hours).
With EFE information.
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