Marko Hanželic
Qualifications for Mexico City GP took place in similar weather as yesterday afternoon’s free practice, which means 21 degrees Celsius air temperature and 47 degrees Celsius asphalt temperature. It was clear right from the start that they would Stroll, Tsunoda in Or with had to start from scratch, but all three showed up at start Q1, much like Norris, a similar fate awaits him.
Just before the start of qualifying, Williams Garage announced that they had replaced the drive unit at George Russell, which will therefore not be further penalized as they have already used the unit used. The Briton was already fined five places for changing gears. They are on the other side of the pits Red Bullthese mechanics worked frantically on both race cars. According to unofficial information, the "red bulls" had problems with DRS system.
Q1 - Stroll took care of the red flag
As we are used to, at the very beginning of the first part of the qualifications, there was no excessive crowding on the track itself, as there were 18 minutes available, but it was interrupted by an accident. Lance stroll. The Canadian flew into the security fence and took care of it red flag, as workers along the track had to clean up parts of the car that were lying around.
Only seven racers set the time for the accident, which caused a considerable crowd on the track after the restart. None of the favorites had a set time until then, but they are at Red Bullu forced pause spent for additional inspection of the rear wing on Perez's race car.
After the first part of the qualifications, the working day ended for Alonso, Latifija, Schumacherja, Mazepina in Stroll. If we look at it from the team’s point of view Alpine, dropped the wrong racer as he will Or with tomorrow started anyway completely from the background. He was the fastest in the first part Bottas before Leclerc in Verstappen. Both racers of the team Williams she is still awaiting a possible penalty, as she is supposed to overtake in the pits, which of course is not allowed.
Q2 - Tsunoda and Norris advanced to Q1 despite penalties
Except Ozone in Tsunode all the other racers started the second part of the qualifications on the tires of the middle compound, which is of course the most desirable for the start of tomorrow's race. It's at the very top Verstappen with a time of 1: 16,4 slightly overtaken Hamilton, tsunoda however, he reached the third time on the soft compound tires, which from his point of view does not mean much, as he will start from the background tomorrow in any case, but he could help Gasly in the third part of the qualifications.
After the end of the second part of the qualifications, they said goodbye to the continuation Hag, Raikkönen, Russell, Giovinazzi in Or with. The Italian also spun in the second attempt, and in Q3 they finished that way tsunoda as well as Norris, who will still be in a better position in the race, as he performed with mid-range tires.
Q3 - Flying Bottas fastest both times
The last twelve minutes were marked by a rosada at the very top, as according to the results of the last two training sessions, it seemed that they would occupy the first starting row. Red Bull Racing. Hamilton disagreed, much less his teammate Bottas, who, after clarifying his future, is driving like a reborn.
He set the fastest time in the first, and he was also sovereign in the second, otherwise he was 92 thousandths behind his first achievement, but he still left behind so Hamilton as well as Verstappen. The latter also had some pitch in the second attempt as it is tsunoda broke the circle of both racers Red Bull Racing. which, even in ideal conditions, would be difficult to overtake the Finn flying today. For both Red Bulloma were classified gasly in Sainz.
Mexico City GP qualifiers - results
