The Australian Oscar Piastri (McLaren), leader of the Formula One World Cup, will first be released this Sunday at the Grand Prix of Spain, the ninth of the year, which is played at the Montmeló Circuit (Barcelona); Where the Spanish Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), double world champion, will start tenth.
Piastri, 24, achieved his fourth ‘pole’ in the F1 -all this year -after mastering the qualification, whose decisive third round (Q3) covered the 4,675 meters of the Catalan track in a minute, 11 seconds and 546 thousandth row.
Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and the English George Russell (Mercedes) will start from the second row, after having marked exactly the same chrono, superior in 302 thousandths than Piestri; And, having achieved it before, it will be the quadruple Dutch world champion who faces the race from the third place of the grill.
Alonso, in a second youth at age 43 and brand new Circuit ambassador of Barcelona-Catalunya, stayed at 738 thousandths and will be tenth this Sunday on the track where he achieved two of his 32 victories in the queen category. It will do it from the fifth row and next to the French debutant Isack Hadjar (RB), ninth on grill.
The septuple English world champion Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) -quinto- and his substitute in Mercedes, the young Italian Andrea Kimi Antonelli will take the exit from the third row. And from the fourth they will do the Monegasco Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) and the Frenchman Pierre Gasly (Alpine).
The other Spanish, Madrid Carlos Sainz (Williams), and Argentine Franco Colapint (Alpine), eliminated in the Q1, will leave decimoctavo and nineteenth, respectively, in the ninth race of the year, scheduled to 66 laps to complete a total of 307.2 kilometers.
With EFE information.
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