![]() ![]() ![]() Sadly for Stroll, a problem with his car meant he could not run in the top-10 shootout. That meant Q3 appearances for Lance Stroll, Mick Schumacher and Yuki Tsunoda, perhaps exceeding expectations in some if not all of those cases. Q3 is going to get tasty! #DutchGP □□ #F1 But they leapt up the leaderboard as both Alpines of Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso, AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly, Albon and Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu were knocked out.Ġ.113s separating Sainz, Russell and Verstappen as the top three. Of the top teams, it was Ferrari whose pace was initally the most disconcerting and their drivers were seventh and ninth going into the final runs. Q2 was briefly red-flagged, with only Alex Albon on track, due to a (banned) orange flare being thrown onto the circuit, although the Williams driver was more concerned with “a ton of pigeons” that were chased away by a marshal during the hiatus. That was certainly too much for the five eliminated drivers to cope with, they being from five different teams – Nicholas Latifi (Williams) slowest of all in 20th, Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin) in 19th after running into the gravel on his final effort, Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren) in 18th, Kevin Magnussen (Haas) in 17th and Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo) in 16th. The huge, orange-clad crowd had arrived in the hope of seeing Verstappen claim pole followed by a race win for the second consecutive year on Sunday, and he did not let them down in getting the first part of the job done.ĭespite original fears of damp weather, the sun shone over the seaside circuit on the North Sea coast and the track ramped up as Q1 progressed, although Verstappen’s early benchmark of a 1:11.317 – over a second faster than anyone at the time – stood the test. Max Verstappen snatched pole position – his 17th in Formula 1 – for the Dutch Grand Prix to send his home fans delirious at Zandvoort.
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