Formula 1: Ferrari star Carlon Sainz lost control of his car in qualifying, hitting the wall and causing a red flag.
Sainz dramatically crashes in qualifying | 01:37The sad beauty of Formula 1’s new sprint format is the sport was threatened with Max Verstappen ’s single-lap pace and race pace all on the one day.
Both McLaren drivers, having expected to struggle, came close to usurping the Spaniard and will start fourth and fifth. This year sprint qualifying was on Friday afternoon and the sprint race on Saturday morning, with the weekend returning to normal from grand prix qualifying this afternoon. Had it been dry, we almost certainly would have got a similar result to today’s qualifying. That would definitely have been the case at a better known circuit.With the sprint now scheduled unobtrusively on Saturday morning, it risks being almost entirely meaningless to the weekend narrative.
There are always loopholes in rules, but the meaning of the word ‘stop’ surely shouldn’t take more than four hours, from crash to judgement, to figure out.The stewards investigation was just one flashpoint in Ferrari’s day, with a far bigger problem having come during the sprint race. “We’ll have to discuss, like we always do in these kinds of situations, but we have a great relationship with Carlos, so I have no worries.Speaking at the end of the day, Sainz cautioned against reading too much into the incident.“I think we were racing really hard in the sprint. We were racing very hard also some of the other cars, and I didn’t complain.”The context of Carlos Sainz being pre-emptively dropped from the team for 2025 means he’s a lone wolf.
“We just switched, trying to experiment still with the car,” Hamilton said. “I went one way — a long way — and went the other way, just to see if we can find anything.Things were tepid at best even on the other side of the garage, where Russell qualified a muted eighth at 0.773 seconds off pole. Per The Race, Ricciardo was later unwilling to pin the upturn in form directly to the chassis swap but admitted it was probably more than a coincidence.
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