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Monaco24 - Qualifying

P20-15: Zhou, Bottas, Perez, Sergeant, Alonso

P15-11: Magnussen, Stroll, Ricciardo, Hulkenberg, Ocon

P10-1: Gasly, Albon, Tsunoda, Hamilton, Verstappen, Russell, Norris, Sainz, Piastri, Leclerc

Verstappen hits the wall on his final lap, goes slower on all sectors

Albon gets William's first Q3 entry of the season

Logan Sargeant outqualifies Perez in the Red Bull without upgrades 🔥🔥

Oscar Piastri to start P2 after losing his front row position in Imola (penalty for impeding)

So much traffic in Q1-2...

List of impeding incidents being investigated after the session:

Hulkenberg on Ocon

Albon on Sainz

Zhou, Bottas on Ricciardo

I just saw your post re the rumours. Marko has stated vcarb needs to give Ricciardo a car he can succeed in and praised Yuki for how strong he’s been. Meikes the tp has backed Daniel and stated he’s on pace and improving. And Bayer the ceo of the team, has said the technical feedback and development Daniel is giving is very strong, benefitting Yuki and for the team too and has stated Daniel’s car has issues. For Yuki, it’s been very high praise and highlighting how comfortable he is is a car.

Adding this to it!! I was trying to find some of the team comments but it's like 2am here lol. I didn't mention Yuki too much because it was a daniel focused post, but the praise going his way is definitely warranted.

Thanks anon :))

10 milliseconds off of Q3… Lowkey devastating but we do what we can 🫠

every so often they throw in rookies with max it provides him with enrichment

"Stroll not at all happy with his penalty" my brother in christ you caused the collision

Short recap of the Japanese GP Quali!

- Daniel Ricciardo missed out on Q3 by less than a second, but Yuki Tsunoda will start 10th for his home race!! He sadly didn't improve his time in Q3 but an impressive performance nonetheless.

- A few penalties handed out... firstly to George Russell for an unsafe release into Oscar Piastri (£5000 to Mercedes) and also Nico Hulkenberg for exceeding track limits (time deleted)

- Both Williams missing Q3 again, coming in P19 (LS2) and P14 (AA23). Albon continues to with drive Sargeant's chassis as "the workload to switch the cars back over would be far too much for the mechanics." Although not ideal, the chassis shouldn't be too different weight-wise, and he's expected to have the spare by Miami. The only problem is that the front wing and rear were damaged in FP1, but that has reportedly been fixed.

Q3:

Verstappen of course will start on pole, making 99 pole positions for Red Bull! Lando Norris started Q3 in P2, but Perez put in a good lap and knocked him down to P3. Behind him will be Sainz, then the birthday boy (Piastri), Hamilton, Leclerc, Alonso, Russell, and Tsunoda.

Q2:

Ricciardo, who qualified just 0.055 seconds behind his teammate, will start 11th. Behind him will be Hulkenberg, Bottas, Albon, and Ocon.

Q1:

Stroll starts 16th, knocked out of Q2 by Bottas's final lap, then Gasly, Magnussen, Sergeant and Zhou.

Will be back with a summary of the GP (hopefully) tomorrow!!

HAMILTON P12?? HAMILTON P20 TO P12 IN THE OPENING LAP!!!

I’m gonna need Vcarb to come out immediately and take the blame for this as soon as this race finishes. Stupid stupid strategy yet it’s going to be DR who will get all the backlash.

insp

Pre-Bahrain Live

F1 was live on instagram a few minutes ago, with Lawrence Barnetto interviewing a couple of the drivers! Here are some of my favourite moments while I try and stay awake for the race :))

Lawrence interviewing oscar piastri with his autographed shirt

Lewis going "you rated me pretty low on the predictions" and making Lawrence freak out for a few seconds

Daniel Ricciardo! Nothing happened beyond him talking about his expectations for the car and the race, I just wanted to include him

And, of course, Spider-man waving to the drivers

Bonus: Lando being handed a mic and then turning back to whatever George was saying instead of actually doing the interview (did not get a screenshot, unfortunately) and the cameraman focusing on 1644 every time they could.