The third and final Formula 1 Sprint Qualifications (official name) this season has concluded today. Valtteri Bottas, the Finnish driver of Mercedes, won the Brazilian GP sprint race, where Mercedes, especially Lewis Hamilton, did wonders.
Formula 1’s stop this week Brazilian GPLewis Hamilton of Mercedes won by a wide margin in Friday’s qualifying.
Hamilton, who started the sprint race held from the last row after the developments after the qualifying laps on Friday, by passing 15 pilots to the 5th place rose. Both Red Bull drivers, who lost their places at the start, could not regain their lost places and the golden opportunities offered for Sunday were lost.
Developments on Friday evening and Saturday morning
British driver of Mercedes Lewis Hamiltonfinished Friday’s qualifying in first place, 0.4 seconds ahead of Red Bull’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen. But after the qualifying laps were over, the world of Formula 1, so to speak, shook its place.
First before Red Bull’s qualifying FIA (International Automobile Federation) with Lewis Hamilton about the rear wing The news that he had spoken fell on the backstage. After qualifying, Red Bull engineers Adrian Newey and Paul Monaghan went to the FIA office with some documents and video recordings and made a mini presentation.
Mercedes is starting to get a headache: FIA inspected in an unusual way
Red Bull claimed that Lewis Hamilton had an irregularity in his rear wing. With the end of the qualifying rounds FIA technical delegate Jo Bauer, inspected the rear wings of all the cars one by one and, as Red Bull claimed, The irregularity of Hamilton’s rear wing detected that.
On Saturday morning, the FIA invited Mercedes officials to a meeting to discuss Hamilton’s rear wing. Hamilton qualifying, according to FIA at least 5 km speed advantage had provided. With its decision, the FIA seized and sealed the rear wing used by Hamilton. Mercedes is no longer allowed to use this wing.
Disasters do not stop: Hamilton gets grid penalty
Events are not limited to this; The FIA also removed Hamilton from Friday’s qualifying. disqualification announced that he did. So Hamilton started today’s sprint race from the last row instead of the first row.
Lewis Hamilton requested special permission from the FIA to fit a regular rear wing, as you can imagine he can’t race without a wing. To Hamilton, with permission from the FIA new and regular a wing is attached.
Red Bull and Max Verstappen also got their share from the penalties.
Friday’s events in Formula 1 are not limited to these. After qualifying, Max Verstappen drove Lewis Hamilton’s car 50 thousand euros for touching the rear wing with his hand was fined. As it is known, it is forbidden to touch rival vehicles in Formula 1, except for technical officials.
Training session: the day’s surprises are endless, Alonso is in the first place
The fastest name of the training session surprisingly Alpine driver Fernando Alonso it happened. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took second place; Verstappen was followed by Bottas, Ocon, Hamilton and Perez.
Start moment: Bottas and Sainz make a great start, Red Bulls are missing
The top four in the sprint race were Verstappen, Bottas, Perez and Sainz. Mercedes’ Finnish driver Bottas had better traction at takeoff than Verstappen and has yet to to pass the Dutch pilot in the first seconds succeeded. In the back, Ferrari’s Spanish driver Sainz, almost From the glory days of Ferrari presented a snippet. The Ferrari driver, who first passed Perez, then came side by side with Verstappen. The duo, who passed the halfway together, then left with Verstappen’s exit and Sainz moved to second place. Thus, the ranking in the top four was formed as Bottas, Sainz, Verstappen and Perez.
Especially pilots starting with soft rubber It gave a huge advantage at the time of take-off. Lewis Hamilton, the British driver of Mercedes, who started the sprint race from the last place due to his penalty. In the first round, he passed 4 people to 16th place. settled down. At the start of the second lap, Alfa Romeo driver Kimi Räikkönen spun and placed in last place. During the spin, Räikkönen’s contact with his teammate Antonio Giovinazzi was reflected on the screens, so he spun.
Round 3: On the third lap, Verstappen reported to the team radio that there was a gearbox synchronization problem.
Round 4: Max Verstappen, with the help of DRS (accelerating by opening the rear wing only in certain parts of the track when the difference with the vehicle in front is less than 1 second), passed Sainz to move into second place.
5th round: Verstappen is behind the leader Bottas by 2.2 seconds. The difference between Verstappen – Sainz is 3.7 seconds and the difference between Sainz – Perez is the DRS distance (less than 1 second). Hamilton continues the race in 12th place.
10th round: The gap between Bottas and Verstappen was reduced to 1.4 seconds. Perez and Sainz are still within DRS distance. Hamilton, on the other hand, moved into 11th place after lingering behind Alpine’s Alonso for a long time and is currently in contention with McLaren’s Ricciardo.
Round 13: After attacking the leading Ricciardo from the outside on the start level in the DRS zone, Hamilton passed Ricciardo and moved up to 10th place.
Round 15: The difference between Bottas and Verstappen was reduced to 0.6 seconds. Verstappen started using DRS this round and now wants to hunt Bottas. The difference between Perez and Sainz is also 0.6 seconds, but Perez continues to linger behind Sainz. Hamilon is chasing Vettel, the 9th-place Aston Martin driver.
Round 17: Every time Hamilton comes to the starting line, he passes an opponent. He passed first Vettel, then Ocon and finally Gasly on the starting straight with DRS.
Round 20: Hamilton passed Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc of Monaco to 6th place. Verstappen and Perez continue to follow their opponents.
Last round: Lewis Hamilton beats McLaren driver Lando Norris as he enters the final lap. making a bold attack passed and placed in 5th place. Hamilton presented a recital today, surpassing exactly 15 people. If this was a normal race and not a spint race; It wasn’t even sincere that Hamilton took the lead at this speed.
While the first five rows are Bottas, Verstappen, Sainz, Perez and Hamilton; Hamilton due to motor penalty He will start Sunday’s race from 10th place. With these results, Bottas 3, Verstappen 2 and Sainz 1 points; The difference between Verstappen and Hamilton increased to 21 (314.5 / 293.5). The difference in points between Mercedes and Red Bull increased by 1 point to 2 points (481.5 / 479.5).
A possible Red Bull double position on Sunday (top two places) will also place Red Bull at the top of the teams standings. The race, which is the last entertainment of the week in Brazil, will start at 20:00 on Sunday.