2019 Brazilian Grand Prix
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Little change at the end of Q3 unfortunately! Max Verstappen is on pole, ahead of Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton! Charles Leclerc will start 14th after applying his 10-place penalty. Valtteri Bottas is therefore fourth, ahead of Alex Albon and Pierre Gasly. Romain Grosjean will start seventh.
Max Verstappen improves his time!
Max Verstappen begins his final flying lap!
Romain Grosjean provisionally holds the seventh time, Pierre Gasly the ninth.
Max Verstappen puts everyone in agreement with a lap 8 thousandths faster than that of Sebastian Vettel, despite a generous slip in the second sector!
Lewis Hamilton completes a lap in 1'07″861. Valtteri Bottas is beaten by 13 thousandths. Sebastian Vettel takes the lead by 230 thousandths!
Charles Leclerc is the fastest in the first sector.
Q3 begins and no one is coming out of the garages yet.
This is the first time that the two Haas have met in Q3 since the Spanish Grand Prix last May.
The ranking of this Q2:
Lando Norris, Daniel Ricciarod, Antonio Giovinazzi, Nico Hülkenberg and Sergio Pérez are therefore eliminated.
Oddly enough, no driver improves in this last lap!
The drivers come out for the last lap of Q2.
Romain Grosjean is a tenth ahead of his teammate Kevin Magnussen in seventh place.
After this first run in Q2, the two Renaults are in a situation of elimination, just like Sergio Pérez (Racing Point), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) and Lando Norris (McLaren).
Sebastian Vettel drives slower on his soft tires than his colleague Charles Leclerc on medium tires.
Charles Leclerc is second, 385 thousandths behind the Dutchman. The Monegasques is one of the rare men to take medium tires.
Max Verstappen takes the best time in 1'07″503!
Lewis Hamilton increases the pace with a time of 1'08″088.
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