F1 Youtube’s qualifying highlights. Events of note include:
- Q1 was not actively raining, but the track was quite wet still. Everyone ran inters.
- Sainz impeded Gasly in the chicane, not so different from what he did in FP3 to Albon (but worse). He would later be handed a 3-place grid-penalty as a result: https://lemmy.ml/post/1327363.
- Q2 was tire and weather chaos.
- Stroll lost the rear in Q2, doing a pirouette, amazingly largely keeping it out of the barriers… just a little clip of the front-wing.
- A dry line was developing and first Albon then Norris gambled on softs, Albon topping the session as a result.
- The final minutes of the session saw sprinkling rain again. Perez, Leclerc, and Stroll all failed to advance on Inters.
- Q3 was properly wet again with all teams running inters and throwing big rooster tails on the straights.
- Times almost 8s slower than Q2.
- Piasti binned it, losing the rear on exit and binning it into the wall. The session was red-flagged with about 7m left as a result.
- Just before the red-flag came out, Hulkenberg crossed the line just under the wire with 2nd place qualifying result for Haas.
All in all, another good day to be a duck. Qualifying results here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1324944.
Nice write up, thanks for the contribution.