All that remains is the struggle for the volatile science.
As this season did, Max Verstapen surprised everyone by grabbing the pole center in the Saudi Grand Prix, as it finished 0.010 seconds before Oscar Pasri. But as the director of the Red Bull Christian Horner team noted after the qualifiers, Verstapen will get his hands full when the lights come out later today.
“But what we saw this weekend, McLaren is very fast, especially in trimming the race. So I think we will face hell on our hands to try to keep Oscar behind us. But we started in the best possible situation, to go to the pole.” Sky SPORTS F1 After the session.
“Frankly, I didn’t think it was possible to go to that session. But this only appears, you never give up. We have a great team, and you continue to fight. You continue to chase the performance, then Max, will go and hand you over to the last ounce of performance.”
Whether Verstapen can already stop PiaSSTRI, it is one of the main talk points that is heading until Sunday in the Saudi Grand Prix.
Wonderful battle in the foreground
So far, this week it seemed similar to the Japanese Grand Prix race a few weeks ago. While the McLaren Lando Norris and Pestry duo entered Saturday as a preferred pole, Versaben was the one who extracted P1 from the papaya husband, sticking to this place during the same race.
The race, which sometimes seemed to be more than the Grand Prix, given the lack of transcendence.
While the corridor comes strongly around the Jeddah Corniche circle, it is not impossible. Three DRS regions and 27 angle gather to provide drivers’ chances of forming some land on the path. While Versappen has a feature off line, running in the left turn 1 will give PiaSSTRi an opportunity to seize the lead. But if the Australian driver is unable to arrest Verstapen outside the beginning, the MCL39 should give him more opportunities.
And if VerstapPen and PiaSSTRI arrived at Tangling, this could open the door to George Russell, who begins in third place?
What about other drivers in the front?
Can anyone outside the first three places run in the volatile science?
Charles Leclerc begins fourth, along with a messenger in the second row. But the Ferrari driver did not seem very confident in his chances of fighting on Sunday. Speaking to the official F1 channel after the qualifiers, Leclerc reduced his chances, and did not hide his “disappointment.”
Ferrari driver said: “They are mixed feelings.” “Yes, I am happy with my currency, but I am disappointed [the result]. The fight for P4 is not what I want and not what makes me happy, so now I am disappointed. “
As for his teammate, Luis Hamilton seemed more optimistic after qualifying in seventh place, and some optimism moved to Sunday.
Norris said to Sky Sports F1. “I didn’t feel good with the car under me, it was not easy at all, so I entered Q3, it doesn’t matter how close it is, because I am grateful to reach the Q3. P7 is fine, it’s better than my last qualifiers, so I am still working to do for the skin with this car.
“We did not do long in the long run, but this I think is a path I think there are some abuses, so [I’m] We look forward. “
A surveillance driver is Kimi Antonelli, who will start fifth. Although he was on his mind, P4 was definitely on the table.
“This was very qualified,” Antoneli said in the team’s report after the rehabilitation. “The session as a whole went well, and continued to build my speed. I had a big shot in my first lap in the first quarter and I had to burn a second group of new tires to reach the Q2. This was not perfect, but we still reached the Q3, and thanks to the red flag, the whole thing had reached the final effort anyway. It was a strong father and I think we could take P4.”
Confidence is definitely adopting in his mind, which may make it a dark horse on Sunday.
“I feel more confident in every weekend. This path is a big test as you need a lot of confidence and really approaching the walls through high -speed corners,” Antonelli added. “Step by step, and more experience I get, I feel that I have started to put everything with more consistency. Let’s do not get ourselves and see what we can do tomorrow.
“It will be a long race and we hope we can bring some strong points for the team.”
Can Norris recover again?
For the second consecutive Sunday, Lando Norris faces the recovery campaign prospects.
Last Sunday in Bahrain Noris started sixth. He went out to an enormous start, as he got many sites shortly after the lights came out to crawl to the P3, but he was then martyred in a wrong start, which required him to provide a five secondary penalty.
In the end, he finished third, which may consider a strong driver to recover by looking at where he started. But the wrong start penalty has cost him an opportunity to gain more land on the path, and in the arrangement.
Now he will need to capture more land in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as his crash in the third quarter has ended in the network. He will have some opportunities to capture sites, and there can always be in the form of a safety car or two, but McLaren may need to wrap the strategic dice with Noris if they will convert its results on Sunday.
Feature, Williams?
As he indicated this week, the midfield battle is great. Just 14 points separating Haas in P5 to Sauber in P10 in the Benin Championship ranking:
Haas: 20 points
Williams: 19 points
Aston Martin: 10 points
VCARB: 7 points
Alpine Mountains: 6 points
Saber: 6 points
Alpine has a tie feature on Sauber thanks to the seventh place for Pierre Jasli last week in Bahrain, which is the best end of either team this season.
Thanks to the qualified results on Saturday, one may think that Williams has an advantage. Carlos Sainz Jr. In P6, his best result is qualified for this season. Add Alex Alex, starting with P11, and has Williams a great opportunity to a dual points result.
But Sainz is not the only midfielder who starts in the top ten. Gasly has a strong opportunity in another great outcome of itself, as it will be on the ninth when the lights come out.
Then there is Visa Cash App Racing Bulls Duo of Liam Lawson and ISACK HADJAR, which start P12 and P14, respectively. Can they work forward based on speed and strategy?
Williams may have a midfield feature when the lights start on Sunday, but anything can happen on the race day.
Especially because of …
Chaos
Yes, chaos factor.
The Jeddah Corniche circle is one of the fastest street circles in the world, and a path that punishes errors. 27 angle and walls looming on the horizon can turn the bosom of glory into a catastrophe in the blink of an eye, which means that the teams are preparing to interfere in the form of a safety car.
Since its inception in 2021, every Saudi Grand Prix ran witnessed at least one safety car. This was the case last year when the LAP STROLL accident took out the safety car and saw the largest part of the field diverted in the pits to make mandatory tire changes.
However, the Saudi opening race in 2021 not only witnessed a safety car, but two red brands and four virtual safety car.
The chaos factor can be high today, and the teams that deal with the unimaginable best can prevail.
