Bojan Vrbnjak
He took care of the first noteworthy event Williams race car Roberta Kubica, who with a lot of smoke and some fire released his soul. The Polish racer easily climbed out of the burning vehicle, but those responsible interrupted the qualifications and invited the racers to the pits. Otherwise, the second failure of the Mercedes power unit with a new specification this weekend.
Q3: Twice smoke and fire and two red flags
After appearing to have problems with the race car, with a fast lap in heavy traffic towards the end of Q3, he finished third for both Ferrari swung Max Verstappen, and immediately after that the qualifications were suspended again, as due to technical problems at the edge of the target plane he got stuck Antonio Giovinazzi. Also Alfa Romeo uses the latest version, in this case a Ferrari engine, and again this time we saw smoke and fire from the rear of the car
After two red flags, it was the end of Q3 and thus the end of qualifying for Kubica, Russell, Kvyat, Sainz in Gasly. None of them will start from the beginning tomorrow - this "honor" will fall due to the replacement of the engine Alex Albon.
O2: Grosjean lost a thousandth fight with a teammate
The beginning Q2 he was soon taken care of by reaffirming the current balance of power. Both Ferrari in front, followed by a fight for places 3 to 6 between the two Mercedes in Max Verstappn. They hung on the other end for a long time Hulkenberg, Norris in Grosjean. The first managed to improve his time just before the end, and Grosjean ran out of 59 thousandths against his teammate Magnussen.
Q3: Charles Leclerc confirmed dominance and won the pole
The last part of the qualifiers was almost brought on due to communication noise to the collision of both Mercedes, which caused Lewis Hamilton to brake hard, and it all unfolded without any serious consequences. It's already before that Charles Leclerc re-set the fastest lap.
It has its dominance so far Leclerc crowned with another outstanding time just before the end of time in Q3, as the runner-up teammate Vettel lagged behind him by 748 thousandths of a second, and a few thousandths more Lewis Hamilton, fifth Max Verstappen was already more than 1,1 seconds behind.
They can be more than happy with the qualifications Renault, because they are Ricciardo in Hulkenberg won 6th and 7th place, eighth is evergreen Kimi Räikönen, who proves time and time again that he is not in the mood to write off, and is probably also satisfied with the ninth place Sergio Perez v Racing Point.
