Lando Norris heads all-McLaren front-row in Hungary as Sergio Perez’s woes continue
Lando Norris heads McLaren front row lockout in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying, reports Lewis L🍰arkam from Budapest.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris spearheaded McLaren's first front row lockout in qualifying in 12 years at the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix, as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s recent woes continued.
Norris pipꩲped McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri by🌳 just 0.022s to claim his third pole position in a thrilling and tight qualifying session threatened by light rain. It marks the first time since Brazil 2012 that McLaren’s cars have finished first and second in qualifying.
"Very, very happy," Norris said in parc ferme. "Not an easy qua𒅌lifying, different conditions like that, but always ending up on top is the best part of it all. Especially for the team, a one-two is even better, so congrats to the team.
"We have already got confidence, so it's not like we need a lot more of it or we are searching for it. We have come into this weekend off the back of the las🔯t few happy and confident we can do a good job and w๊e have a good car to fight for pole, which is what we did today.
"We are in the best position for whatever the conditions throw at us. Two cars at the front row, we can control🌠 it from there, so as long as we stay wꦐhere we are we'll be happy."
Max Verstappen was only 0.046s down👍 on Norris’ pole time as he had to settle with third place on the grid in his upgraded Red Bull.
Mean🦩while, his Red Bull teammate Perez suffered his late𝐆st qualifying nightmare.
Under increa﷽sing pressure to retain his seat, the M🧜exican slammed into the Turn 8 barriers after spinning off in damp conditions during Q1.
Perez could take no further part in the session and will start no higher thaꦑn 16th pending any penalt⭕ies for damage.
Carlos Sainz was fourth-fastestℱ, some four tenths adrif🐓t, ahead of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton in fifth and Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc.
✃🌃Fernando Alonso headed Aston Martin teammate Lance Stroll in seventh, with the RB duo of Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda rounding out the top-10 in a rare double Q3 appearance.
A hea𒅌vy crash for Tsunoda caus🌌ed Q3 to be red-flagged with just over two minutes left on the clock, but only Ricciardo could improve his time with the session eventually restarted.
Nico Hulkenberg missed out on a spot in Q3 by just 0.010s as he took 11th for 🌞Haas, ahead of Sauber’s Valtteri Bottas.
The Williams pair of Alex Alb𒉰on and Logan Sargeant were 13th and 14th⛦, with Kevin Magnussen 15th in the other Haas.
George Russell suffered a shock Q1 elimination after a scruffy session left him only 17th on the gri♋d.
The Mercedes dr🥀iver couldꦜ not find the improvement he needed in the tricky conditions before others around him found more time in the dying moments of the session.
“Yeah, sorry about this session guys. It’s on me,” Russell conceded over team rౠadio.
Zhou Guanyu was 18th for Sauberꦑ, ahead of the Alpine duo of Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly, who ended up slowest of all after a decision to stay in the pits for the final laps backfired spectacularly.
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