2018 Russian Grand Prix
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QUALIFYING CLASSIFICATION: A second pole of 2018 for @ValtteriBottas #RussianGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/3mGByLUYXl
- Formula 1 (@ F1) September 29, 2018
Bad qualification for Romain Grosjean, 9th. The Frenchman is almost half a second behind Kevin Magnussen.
At the last minute, Kevin Magnussen sets the 5th time! Esteban Ocon is 6th, ahead of Charles Leclerc.
Sebastian Vettel will start 3rd.
The top 4 positions do not change, Valtteri Bottas gets pole ahead of Lewis Hamilton!
Kimi Räikkönen remains 4th.
Lewis Hamilton improved by three tenths!
Valtteri Bottas begins his final timed lap.
Lewis Hamilton was faster than his teammate in the first and last sector. Valtteri Bottas therefore made the difference in the middle sector.
The fight is, however, more exciting for the middle of the top 10: Esteban Ocon is 5th, and ahead of Charles Leclerc by 14 thousandths.
Lewis Hamilton was beaten by Valteri Bottas by four thousandths! The Finn clocked 1'31″528.
Lewis Hamilton is already ahead of Valtteri Bottas in the initial sector.
Quite logically, the drivers wear out the super soft tires.
No time to snooze, Q3 is starting! Mercedes, Ferrari, Racing Point Force India, Sauber and Haas have 12 minutes to go as quickly as possible.
Lewis Hamilton deliberately slows down in the last corner, in order to start the race with hyper soft tires (and not ultra soft as is the case in his last lap of Q2)
All the drivers on the track are trying super soft tires. Lewis Hamilton sets the first sector record.
The Renaults are definitely staying in the garage! Carlos Sainz Jr and Nico Hülkenberg will start 11th and 12th tomorrow at 13 p.m., ahead of the Toro Rossos, Red Bulls, Williams and McLarens.
Romain Grosjean set the 6th time, a few hundredths behind Charles Leclerc but two tenths ahead of his teammate Kevin Magnussen.
The Renaults have still not recorded any time in this Q2.
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