Qualifying Talking Pts: Four-car fight for victory after Norris masterclass; RB upgrade delivers season-worst result Four different drivers have taken the last four pole positions in Formula 1, but this week’s qualifying result is the most important among them.
Only in the final corner, by now his soft tyres groaning from exertion, did he allow himself the smallest of confidence lifts. He could afford it, but only just — he shipped time to Verstappen all the way to the finish line, which came just in time to save him by 0.02 seconds. It’s notably different to the Norris of last year, who was prone to making mistakes crunch qualifying moments and committing himself to difficult comeback drives when bigger results should have been available to him.
“But this weekend I come in with a different approach and reset some things, and definitely I feel like I’ve been on a better footing. Ferrari and Mercedes dropped away from the battle for pole as Red Bull Racing and McLaren turned up their engines. But none of those issues will be present in the race, when a slower race pace should bring all four cars closer together, as they had been during practice.
“It’s about making the least mistakes, similar to today, and just trying to execute another good race that we normally do.” “It’s been a tough weekend, to be honest,” Piastri said at the end of a session decided by driver confidence. “I’ve just not been very comfortable with the car the whole time really.
Aston Martin got both cars into Q2 — ripe for the picking had RB put in even a season-average result. “Being out of Q1 with both cars, especially using three sets of soft each, shows that at the moment we don’t have the pace.” The first was between Stroll and Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton had impeded Stroll entering turn 5, and realising his mistake, the Briton pulled far to the right, almost off the track, to leave the Canadian maximum space to continue.
Most in the paddock saw it as two nailed-on grid penalties for deliberate contact, but incredibly the stewards decided to let both instigators off with a warning.At least in Leclerc’s case the stewards concluded that he had “misjudged the position of his car” while “trying to get off the racing line before turn 7”.
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