Max Verstappen beats Charles Leclerc to Miami sprint pole as Daniel Ricciardo impresses
Max Verstappen outpaces Charles Leclerc 🃏to claim pole for the Miami sprint race.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen beat168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Charles Leclerc to take pole position for the sprint race at the F1 Miami Grand Prix.
The Red Bull driver claim💜ed pole for the second sprint race of the season but was just 0.108 seconds faster than Ferrari’s Leclerc, who recovered well after missing almost the entirety of practice following a spin.
Sergio Perez was third in the second Red Bul💃l, 0.235s slower than his world champion teammate.
Verstappen admitted he🌳 was su🅠rprised to take pole after what felt like a "terrible" lap.
"It felt really terrible," he saꦰid. "Maybe that last session was just incredibly difficult to get the tyres to work.
"♋Already in SQ2 I didn't feel great. SQ3, it just felt quite similar for me. I didn't really improve on the soft. Somehow we were first. Of course, I happily take it.
"But it didn't feel enjoyable out there to drive 🌳for whatever reason because in practice it felt really, really nice, I was very comfortable and confident, qualifyi🔯ng, not so much."
Daniel Ricciar🐭do impressed on his way to claiming a brilliant fourth in his RB w🦩ith a lap just 0.403s slower than Verstappen.
Ricciardo’s eye-catchin꧟g performance should help ease the pressure on him to turnaround h🌌is form after a difficult start to 2024.
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was fifth ahead of 💖McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and the Aston Martin ౠduo of Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso.
After topping SQ2, Lando Norris, in a heav♉ily upgraded McLaren, struggled for pace when the field switched onto softs for the final part of qualifying and could only take ninth, ahead of Nico Hulkenberg.
Des🐬pꦓite bringing a significant upgrade to Miami, Mercedes endured a terrible sprint qualifying, with both George Russell and Lewis Hamilton eliminated in SQ2.
Neither Russell or Hamilton could improve on their seconꦏd run on used medi❀um tyres and will line up from 11th and 12th respectively for Saturday’s sprint race.
Esteban Ocon took 13th for Alpine, ahead of Kevin Magnussen’s Haas and RB’s Yuki Tsunoda, who was 💜a disappointing 15th.
Pierre Gasly could not join his teammate in SQ2 as he qualified 16th, ahead of the Sauber pair of Zhou🐻 Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas.
The Williams duo of Logan Sargeant and Alex Albon are set to prop up the rear of the sp🍌rint race grid in 19th and 2𒈔0th after Albon saw his lap time deleted for exceeding track limits.
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