Mexico City: Valtteri Bottas claimed the position of the pole for the Mexican Grand Prix on Saturday with the “surprised” world champion Lewis Hamilton next to it in the Mercedes line lockout.
The Max Verstappen championship leader, which has a 12 points edge over Hamilton in the title race with five remaining events, there is the fastest.
Sensational lap 🚀 @ valtteribottase assess the mexico pole as one of the best 👌 #mexicogp 🇲🇽 @pirellisport https://t.co/WPbrCwGa0U- Formula 1 (@ F1) 1636245840000The Red Bull Driver Sergio Perez is the fourth in front Fans of his house in Mexico City.
“Valtteria did an extraordinary job, he had driven well for the team.
To lock the front row very special,” Hamilton said from his team mate who recorded 1 minute 15,875sec, the only driver swimming below 1:16.
“They (Red Bull) are six nieces in one stage but when we have to qualify, we have a better speed.
I’m both shocked.” For Bottas, it is the 19th career pole position, it is better 18 from Rene Arnoux as a driver of most pillars without winning the world title.
Valtteri Bottas showed off the Fangio award after taking a pole on Saturday’s qualifying session 👍 Comme trophy …
https://t.co/9UVPT0CFV0- Formula 1 (@ F1) 1636240620000 “Honestly that first run in Q3 is one of my best rounds .
Good feeling, “Finn said.
Verstappen admitted that there was a problem with the balance on the red bull.
“It seems that through the qualification of the balance lost a little, but actually the last round I followed for a good lap,” the Dutchman said.
“I don’t know what happened in front of me but there were two people who left and I thought there would be a yellow flag, so I retreated and the lap of course was destroyed.” Even with it and don’t have an extraordinary balance I think we can still go for the polar lap.
“Mood Mexico Mood.
Later that the team order can play a role to allow Hamilton to close the championship gap to Verstappen.” I am a competitor in the heart and I always find such decisions disappointing in a way, but sometimes they need to, “Wolff said told reporters After qualification.
“We will first discuss it with Valtteria and Lewis because they are interested people and then we will see whether the situation requires us to do it.” Alphaturi Pierre Gasply, Ferrari Driver Carlos Sainz, Daniel Ricciardo in a McLaren, Charles Leclerc in the second Ferrari, Yuki Tsunoda of Alphaturi and Lando Norris in McLaren filled the top 10 on Saturday.
The first qualifying session was marked by Lance Stroll burying Aston Martin in a spectacular autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
💬 “Valtteria did an extraordinary job Today – I am very proud of him! “He was driving a den Bro, good some of these last races are …
https://t.co/IVGCakTlublub – Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team (@ MercedesAmGF1) 1636244131000 The appetizer is marked to clean the debris.
After the resumption, Verstappen, the winner twice in Mexico, roared from two Mercedes with Blistering 1: 16,788.
Former two-time champion Fernando Alonso in Alpine was the most famous driver to fail to reach Q2.
Hamilton finally found his steps in Q2, dipped under 1 minute 17sec with 1: 16,474, only 0.009sec ahead of the previous Verstappen attempt.
Tsunoda Japan recorded 1: 16,071 which was impressive in Alpha Tauri to be the third fastest in the session at one stage.
However, he already knew he was starting a Sunday race from behind the grid, along with a walk, to take too many engine parts after both of them also changed the engine this season.