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VN EMILIJE ROMANJE, qualifications: Pole position for HAMILTON, PEREZ beat VERSTAPPNA

Lewis Hamilton has already won his 99th first starting position, followed by both Red Bulla, but in reverse order, as we expected.

Photo: HB Press

Qualifications for VN Emilija Romanje they, as predicted and despite the cold weather (the atmosphere was only 12 degrees Celsius), began and also ended in dry weather. Again, there was a lot of talk about deleting lap times due to driving outside certain frames of the track, which put some racers under pressure.

Q1 - Tsunoda smashed the car, Alonso was lucky

Even before the real action in the first part of the qualifications started, as only five drivers set the times, it is red flag taken care of by the team driver AlphaTauri, Yuki Tsunoda, which is chicaned for him took the ass, causing him to crash ugly into a safety fence and completely demolish the rear of his car. Mechanics at AlphaTauri waiting a long night if they want to get the Japanese car in order by tomorrow.

Yuki Tsunoda completely misplaced the back of his AlphaTauri. - Photo: F1.com

Shortly after that, the qualifiers took place continued, but some racers shuddered quite a bit before they were convinced they were no longer in danger of saying goodbye after the first part. Perez, Latifia in Gasly namely, the commissioners deleted the fast laps in the first attempt. Recent attempts have yielded quite a bit of money - he was positively surprised above all Nicholas Latifi, who finished first in 12th place and ahead of a teammate Russell, who was 14th, was very lucky to have a place lower Fernando Alonso, and said goodbye to the sequel Raikkönen, Giovinazzi, Schumacher in mazepin. He set the best time in Q1 otherwise Valtteri Bottas, and both Williams qualified for Q2 for the first time since Budapest last year.

Q2 - Sainz surprisingly lost Q3

Most of the racers chose the second part of the qualifiers starts on medium compound tires, which is understandable if we take into account the fact that they will have to start tomorrow 's race on the tires with which they put their fastest laps in Q2. They took care of a new surprise at the beginning of the second part Lando Norris with the fastest time and George Russell, which is with Williams announced a fight for Q3.

In the second attempt, with the track in Imoli with soft compound tires (because he probably didn't want to take the risk) the fastest task Sergio Perez, who overtook by two thousandths Norriswhile they will Hamilton, Verstappen in Bottas tomorrow started on mid-range tires.

Carlos Sainz was very disappointed after the end of the second part of the qualifiers. - Photo: HB Press

In the end, for the top ten, it surprisingly did not work out Sainz, who will start as eleventh, was quite disappointed with 12th place as well George Russell, which promised a breakthrough in Q3, followed by them Vettel, Latifi in Alonso.

Q3 - Perez defeated Verstappn

The third part of the qualifications started the fastest Lewis Hamilton, who overtook both with a time of 1: 14.4 Red Bullova drivers who were one or two tenths behind, while his teammate Bottas took 6th place with six tenths of a lag. They were ahead of Finca Norris in Leclerc.

Sergio Perez is the first racer after Daniel Ricciard to beat Max Verstappn as a teammate in qualifying. - Photo: HB Press

The second attempt brought extremely close decisions right at the top. Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time with a time of 1: 14.411, followed by the team driver Red Bull, and no Max Verstappen, but Sergio Perez, who managed to beat the Dutchman in the qualifications in the second race. Before Verstappn otherwise it could still be Lando Norris, but his fastest attempt was canceled, so the Briton landed behind his teammate Ricciardo in seventh place. He held up well, too Charles Leclerc, who eventually won the fourth starting position, and much less Valtteri Bottas, which will start tomorrow as the eighth.

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