Russell heads dominant Mercedes one-two in Silverstone qualifying

Mercedes driver George Russell beat his team-mate Lewis Hamilton to safe pole place for the British Grand Prix. F1Technical’s senior author Balazs Szabo studies on the qualifying session.

Drivers encountered very tough circumstances within the opening qualifying session. When the session began, it was nonetheless damp which prompted drivers to hit the monitor on Pirelli’s intermediates.

Sergio Perez had a catastrophe after turning into beached within the gravel within the opening minutes of the session. Having been unable to rejoin, the Pink Bull driver will line up in P19. The session was red-flagged in order that the stricken Pink Bull could possibly be faraway from the gravel entice.

When the session restarted, drivers headed again on to the circuit, however this time on slick tyres. With the rain clouds having gathered over the circuit, everybody was in a rush to get at the least a soft-tyre fast lap below his belt, however finally the circumstances allowed drivers to finish three fast laps.

Valtteri Bottas, Kevin Magnussen, Esteban Ocon, Sergio Perez and Pierre Gasly have been eradicated on the finish of Q1.

Monitor circumstances additional improved for the center a part of qualifying with the rain staying away from Silverstone.

It was a disappointing day for Charles Leclerc because the Ferrari man was pushed into the elimination zone of Q2 to finish the session in P11. The Monegasque made a mistake into the quick flip of Chapel which meant that his exit onto the lengthy Hangar straight was compromised.

Charles Leclerc, Logan Sargeant, Yuki Tsunoda, Zhou Guanyu and Daniel Ricciardo have been eradicated on the finish of Q2.

The final phase noticed Mercedes emerge as quickest with George Russell setting the benchmark with a 125.819s to safe his second pole place of the season.

His team-mate Lewis Hamilton ended the session in P2 with McLaren’s Lando Norris taking third for tomorrow’s British Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen suffered from understeer all by means of the ultimate qualifying phase and ended up solely fourth quickest.

Oscar Piastri will line up fifth tomorrow and he will probably be joined by Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg on the third row.

Following Leclerc’s elimination in Q2, Ferrari endured one other catastrophe within the final qualifying phase as Carlos Sainz secured a disappointing seventh place, seven tenths of a second behind Russell.

Lance Stroll claimed P8, from Alexander Albon in P9 and Fernando Alonso in P10.

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