LE CASTELLET, July 24 — Charles Leclerc scorched to a sizzling pole position with a commanding lap in Saturday’s sun-baked qualifying session at the French Grand Prix, the...
LE CASTELLET, July 24 — Charles Leclerc scorched to a sizzling pole position with a commanding lap in Saturday’s sun-baked qualifying session at the French Grand Prix, the Ferrari driver beating series leader and world champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull by 0.304 seconds.
Verstappen was second behind Leclerc ahead of Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez with seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton fourth for Mercedes ahead of Lando Norris of McLaren and George Russell in the second Mercedes. Perez said he was glad to have rediscovered some form after struggling in recent weeks. “It’s been a good recovery and the target is to recover some more and beat those red cars. They looked strong today.”
After a final flurry, it was Leclerc, Verstappen and Sainz at the top ahead of Perez and elimination for the luckless Gasly in his Alpha Tauri, Lance Stroll in his Aston Martin, Guanyu Zhou of Alfa Romeo, Mick Schumacher of Haas and Nicholas Lqtifi in the second Williams. The Spaniard clocked 1:31.081 on a new set of sort tyres to outpace Verstappen by nine-tenths, a stunning advantage and performance. By contrast, Mercedes appeared to be floundering until the final minute.Out went Daniel Ricciardo of McLaren, Esteban Ocon in the second Alpine, Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas, two-time champion Sebastian Vettel of Aston Martin and Albon.
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