AUTOhebdo predictions: who is in the running at Imola?

Clearly, the circuits hastily added to the 2020 calendar continue to garner all the votes. After Mugello, the Nürburgring, and Portimão, it is Imola's turn to regain its letters of nobility. 

Added to this deserved success is the format of the event, condensed over two days with a single free session, followed directly by the qualifications. Certainly, the world hierarchy was not upset this Saturday but the acceleration of the program forces drivers, teams, and informed observers to learn on the job and adapt in the blink of an eye. 

Bottas will he transform the test?

The sprinkler watered. Valtteri Bottas has revised his little Lewis Hamilton illustrated and inflicted on his teammate Mercedes the kind of defeat he usually suffers in qualifying against the Briton: namely dominating free practice only to lose pole in the final moments of the session. Does he have the means to make it happen in the race? 

Having little left to gain in the championship, the Finn therefore has nothing to lose when it comes to chasing victory, but a success for Bottas remains better paid than an equivalent result for his teammate (2,35, 1,65* versus XNUMX*). Hamilton, however, proved at Mugello, at the Nürburgring, or even at Portimão that he did not need to start in the lead, nor lead at the end of the first lap, to triumph as the Briton exudes a feeling of power this season. and ease, whatever the situation. 

3th on the grid, Max Verstappen will start this time with the same tires as the Mercedes on the front row, namely medium tyres. Enough to allow the Dutchman, disturbed by an electrical problem in qualifying, to have his say in the race? His victory would in any case yield 1* times your stake. 

gasly back on the podium?

He's one of the great men of the season and he continues to gain momentum. By equaling the best performance of his career in qualifying with the 4th fastest time, Pierre Gasly continues to prove that his historic victory at Monza did not fall from the sky. The pilot Alpha Tauri however, refused to ignite on Saturday evening, aware that the Bottas-Hamilton-Verstappen trio remained out of reach on a regular basis. However, betting on a Gasly podium on Sunday afternoon, whose odds are at 4,25*, is not completely utopia. 

First of all because there could be trouble at the start with a narrow track and a tough first braking located far from the pole position location. Those who open the road will not necessarily have an advantage since they will offer a good aspiration to their pursuers, a well-known scenario in Sochi for example. If Gasly managed to gain one or the other position when the lights went out, the narrowness of the track and the configuration of the Italian layout would give him a good card to play by reducing the possibilities of overtaking. 

Finally, the electrical problems encountered by Max Verstappen in qualifying will not be likely to reassure the clan Red Bull. The Dutchman has certainly always finished on the podium this season, but only when he was able to reach the finish. In other words, if reliability, which has already failed him three times in 3, were to disrupt his progress again, there is a strong chance that his former teammate Gasly would be best placed to take advantage of it. 

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*Odds subject to change