Sao Paulo: Valtteri Bottas won the Sprint race to put his Mercedes in the position of the pole at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix on Saturday because Max Bull Red Verstappen extended the Formula One Championship to 21 points.
The seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton made a sensational and aggressive charge from the last on the grid, after being disqualified from the qualifying session which was dominated on Friday, to the fifth.
The Mercedes driver will start 10 on Sunday after five penalty places for engine changes.
“Not over,” Hamilton said over the Radio Team after getting 15 positions in 24 rounds.
He finished developing, sweeping McLaren from Seso-Briton Lando Norris on the last lap when the crowd stood and cheered.
F1 Sprint Win / pole in Brazil! 🇧🇷 # VB77 # F1 # Braziliangp @ mercedesamgf1 @ f1 https://t.co/52SwjsiwvB- Valtteri Bottas (@valTteribottas) 1636840749000 “I really don’t know what’s possible.
I don’t set the limit or maximum,” Hamilton said , which will start in front but was revealed to the back after the rear wing of his car failed a technical examination.
“Then I suddenly cut it much faster …
you can’t give up, you just keep pushing.” Bottas took three points for Sprint Win, stretching the lead Red Bull in the two-point constructor standings and also conducting Hamilton services.
Verstappen, which lined up in the number one slot, lost to Bottas at the beginning and then was also passed by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.
Pooooooolllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee in Brazil! We are all rici at this time.
😂Https: //t.co/oaifxebia0- Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team (@ MercedesAmGF1) 1636839872000 City of the 24-year Dutch takes back second on lap four and stayed there to a two-point bank.
“Start is the main thing for me,” said Bottas, who has now taken a pole on three of the last four races.
“We gambled a little with soft tires, we knew it would be a benefit at the beginning and it worked.” Sainz is third, after also choosing to start a soft tire, and take the endpoint available with Sergio Perez Red Bull Bull.
Sunday races will be almost three times longer and Hamilton, with a machine that is fresher than the one in front of it, will target the podium – and even with the possibility of victory.
💙🤩🔥 When in Brazil, call him Bottinhas.
https://t.co/8i4huzwbdm- Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team (@ MercedesAmGF1) 1636839488000 “Brilliant drive.
Limitation of damage,” said Mercedes Toto Wolff team boss after a difficult day.
Norris and Ferrari Charles Leclerc will share the third row of each in fifth and sixth after the Hamilton penalty with Alphaturi Glinde Glacon Seventh and Alpine Esteban Ethth.
Aston Martin four times the world champion Sebastian Vettel began ninth and right in front of Hamilton.
Sprint is the weekend of this year’s race using an experimental format, after Silverstone and Monza, and the Formula One Managing Director Ross Brawn liked what he saw.
“This sprint is the best so far with a lot of action and a large crowd to watch everything,” said Briton, who plans to expand the sixth form of the round next year.
“The drama from the track creates something suitable on it, with Lewis overtaking the car after the car.
Without sprint, he will be behind the grid for tomorrow’s race, but instead he has a real chance tomorrow.”