Lando Norris took pole place as championship chief Max Verstappen was knocked out early in a dramatic Qualifying for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix that featured 5 crashes.
A rain-hit, delayed session that befell on Sunday morning at Interlagos featured 5 crashes – however Norris emerged on high with a shocking lap on the finish of Q3 to beat George Russell.
Verstappen, who’s 44 factors forward of Norris within the Drivers’ Championship, was eradicated in Q2 however has a five-grid place penalty for a brand new engine so – because it stands – will begin in seventeenth for the race, stay on Sky Sports activities F1 at 3.30pm in a while Sunday with build-up from 2pm.
RB’s Yuki Tsunoda certified in a shock third from Alpine’s Esteban Ocon, and Liam Lawson was fifth.
Lewis Hamilton was surprisingly eradicated in Q1, whereas there have been massive crashes for Williams’ Franco Colapinto, Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, Aston Martin pair Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso and Alex Albon, who has advised Sky Sports activities he won’t begin the race attributable to injury.
If that’s confirmed, Verstappen would begin from sixteenth.
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Lewis Hamilton struggled within the rain round Interlagos, qualifying solely sixteenth for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix
How Norris took enormous pole in Brazil
For simply the sixth time in F1 historical past, qualifying befell on a Sunday attributable to heavy rain on Saturday and the circumstances almost caught Norris out in Q1.
He scraped by means of the primary a part of qualifying in fifteenth but it surely was Verstappen who obtained knocked out in Q2 as Stroll crashed at Flip Three.
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Max Verstappen questioned why pink flags aren’t raised sooner after he didn’t qualify out of Q2 throughout a moist Sao Paulo GP qualifying
Controversially, it took 40 seconds for the session to be stopped from Stroll’s accident and through that point, Verstappen was ran into the underside 5 and was unable to get one other lap in, with Sergio Perez additionally eradicated for a similar purpose.
Norris took full benefit after two extra pink flags in Q3 for Alonso and Stroll’s crashes to take his seventh pole of the season and has an enormous alternative to eat into Verstappen’s championship lead.
The 5 massive crashes in Sao Paulo GP Qualifying
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Franco Colapinto’s large crash noticed the pink flag introduced out throughout qualifying
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Carlos Sainz crashed his Ferrari in Q2 because the pink flag was deployed as soon as once more in Brazil
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Lance Stroll’s crash prompted a untimely finish to Q2 with Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez lacking out on Q3
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Fernando Alonso grew to become the fourth driver to crash into the boundaries throughout a chaotic qualifying
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Alex Albon had an enormous collision with the boundaries in his Williams as a FIFTH pink flag was introduced out
Sky Sports activities F1’s stay Sao Paulo GP schedule
2pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Sao Paulo GP build-up3.30pm: THE SAO PAULO GRAND PRIX5.30pm: Chequered Flag: Sao Paulo GP reaction6.30pm: Ted’s Pocket book
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