2023-07-30 15:01:09
This is the seventh pole position for the pilot dutch of the season, although it is true that, after changing the gearbox for the fifth time this year, thus breaking the limit before the penaltywill come out in the position sixth after serving five “punishment” positions.
In a classification in which the teams have had to risk with the set-upsconfigurations and heights after not being able to collect much information from the only session of free of the weekend, which has also been in wetthe three sessions have been spectacular for the viewer, with a track improvement considerable in reference to the beginning of the classification.
various teams, including Red Bull have been about to run out of their”comfort zone” by not calculate correctly the times and tires to choose when the track I was in mixed conditions.
Hamilton vs Sainz / Fuente: Twitter @F1
The first session to real fire of this weekend a delay ten minutes, while the official security car carried out various studies on the condition from the track due to the great waterspouts agua falls in the morning.
Q1 has started without rain, with sol and with threatening clouds but which, on the teams’ radar, were not a problem. The track was considerably wetso the teams have chosen to use the intermediate tires throughout the first qualifying session.
It’s been twenty minutes of visibility nil, where the cars raised large levels of spray even inside the pit lane. This has meant that, on many occasions, the pilots had to get out of the lane “marked” what made their laps invalidated from the time table.
Norrisin fact, has had to trouble moving to Q2 for not having a sufficiently competitive time. The English pilot has also been hero of one of the many Departures track, where after dragging the car several meters over the importanthe had to go into the pits to check damage on the flat bottom and on the front wing, a fact that has caused him to start Q2 late.
At the last moment of the session, when the pilots were looking for the time final with a new set of tires intermediatehe traffic in the last few corners has been really densowith different annotations by the FIA.
finally they have stayed eliminated for the next phase: Albon (Williams); Zhou (Alfa Romeo); Sergeant (Williams); Ricciardo (Alpha tauri); and Hulkenberg (Haas).
Track start Norris / Source: Twitter @F1
The second qualifying session was, without a doubt, the most difficult of manage for the teams. The pilots have started with intermediate tiresHowever, the track I was very seca at many points, with lane that burned the water tires. But, in several curves of very strong braking, the puddles were impossible to manage with a tire seco.
the circuit of Spa has many differences level during its journey, and if the meteorology is changeable, the sessions are really difficult to foresee in the paddock.
after a first attempt generalized with the rain tireswho has not improved any of the previously set times, Bottas He was the first driver to launch with the tires soft.
After two laps of many against frills and losses of control of the car, all the drivers have achieved improve their times per seconds. However, many cars took several more corners to get the tires to the temperature ideal to start back.
At the end of the session, the pilot of AlpineEsteban OconHas had a salida track where has shocked the car against the protectionswhich has not allowed him to improve his previous time.
Finally, and after not improving any of the five eliminated: Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri); Gasly (Alpine); Magnussen (Haas); Bottas (Alfa Romeo); y Ocon (Alpine), Max Verstappen He has passed to Q3 by tenths.
Ocon accident / Source: Twitter @F1
The start of Q3 has also been seen delayed for the placement of barriers accident of Ocon and the cleaning of the track of the same place.
The last qualifying session for the race on Sunday has started with the permission of the FIA to make use of DRSan effect that, in a route like this, offers a improvement from around five tenths to the pilots.
It has been a session two attempts, with tires soft for everyone. At first, the laps they were slow and irregularwith many counter frills and problems to keep the car on track. However, the second run has been indefinite until the last second.
All the pilots improved considerably in the three sectorsyes, however, the second is the key section to mark a good lap at the Spa Francorchamps circuit.
after ten minutes intense classification, the top3 of the session has been: Verstappen (Red Bull); Leclerc (Ferrari); and Perez (Red Bull).
On the Spanish side, Sainz has been quintoalthough it will come out room for Verstappen’s penalty. Fernandodespite doing a very good lap, it could only have been nineth.
Final results / Source: Twitter @F1
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