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Sergio Perez takes Miami GP pole
After Saturday’s one-hour qualifying session, Perez will start Sunday’s race ahead of Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), with qualifying points For three sections, 5 cars were eliminated in each of Q1 and Q2 -10 shootouts in Q3.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc is out in Q3, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen will start ninth on the grid after failing to complete a lap in the race due to a mistake and a red flag.
Miami GP qualifying results: Perez takes pole from Alonso
Q1 What happened at the Miami Grand Prix?
Perez set the early benchmark at 1:28.306, a tenth ahead of Leclerc and Verstappen. Leclerc provisionally won P1 with a time of 1:27.895 before Verstappen beat him with a time of 1:27.363, while Sainz took second place with a time of 1:27.
Landing in the first column are Lando Norris (McLaren), Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), Oscar Piastri (McLaren) and Logan Sargeant (Williams).
Miami GP Q1 results: Verstappen fastest from Sainz
What happened in Q2 at the Miami Grand Prix?
Verstappen set the initial benchmark at 1m27.110s and Sainz got it to within 0.038s.
Leclerc beat them in 1m 26.964s and Verstappen responded with 1m 26.814s to regain first place.
Eliminated at this point are Alex Albon (Williams), Nico Hulkenberg (Haas), Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), Zhou Guanyu (Alfa Romeo) and Nick de Vries (AlphaTauri).
Miami GP Q2 results: Verstappen fastest from Leclerc
What happened in Q3 at the Miami Grand Prix?
Perez took the initiative at the opening and won the provisional pole position with a time of 1 meter 26.841 seconds. Both Verstappen and Leclerc made big mistakes early on, allowing Alonso to move up to P2.
In the final round, Leclerc spun into the wall at Turn 6, damaging the right rear corner.
That means Alonso will start from the front row with Perez, ahead of Sainz, Kevin Magnussen (Haas), Pierre Gasly (Alpine), George Russell (Mercy). Des), Leclerc, Esteban Ocon (Alpine), Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo).
Miami GP Q3 results: Perez takes pole
Mercedes may be in trouble. The team had to report to the stewards of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell for the alleged breach of post-race procedure.
Since you can get 26 points, why should you be satisfied with 25 points? That was Max Verstappen’s mind as he successfully attempted to set the fastest lap in the closing stages of the Spanish Grand Prix.
McLaren driver Norris scored a season-best third in Spain, but he won when he clashed with Hamilton’s Mercedes on the first lap and had to pit at the end of the opening round. Hopes for points were dashed.
Hamilton escaped without major damage and went on to finish second.
After his final 17th place, Norris stressed that even before the touch, he expected points struggles due to McLaren’s continued struggles with speed and the position of several drivers further out.
Mercedes driver George Russell recovered from 12th to third, while Sergio Perez’s Red Bull team moved from 11th to fourth on the grid.
Norris said: “The pace today was as expected, which is bad. I don’t think we were really expecting anything else.
“Our aim was to possibly score points, but we didn’t expect it to be like yesterday.”
Asked if points would have been possible without Hamilton’s influence, Norris replied: “Probably not, no.”
He then added: “Because we’re slow, we’ve had a full year. I don’t know, there’s nothing to say.
“Yesterday was a special day. Some good teams struggled and some worse teams did better, so it was just a weird day, people made a lot of mistakes and we just took advantage of that.
Lando Norris and the grid mechanic for the McLaren MCL60
Photography: Jack Grant / motorsport pictures
“Other than that, we’ve been behind all season and struggled for points halfway through the race. It was the same thing today. People expected us to have a very tough day today.
“We’re obviously nowhere near Alpine, Aston or all these top five, top six teams.
“It’s pointless to think ‘we’re going to score points’ because we’re not going fast enough.”
Explaining the clash with Hamilton, Norris said it was sparked by Hamilton checking to avoid Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz as they recovered from off-track runs while battling for the lead going into Turn 1. .
Norris described it as “just a racing incident”, explaining: “I did see Max go off the track at Turn 1, go a little wide, so he had to roll over the curb at Turn 2 and then Everyone checked it out.
“I was too close to Lewis to react and brake and all that. So it was just an unfortunate moment. Lewis was fine, he didn’t do anything wrong.”
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