Lando Norris took a sensational pole position in the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint Qualifying, but who were the Winners and Losers?
Red Bull's Max Verstappen and McLaren's Lando Norris feature on our list of Winners and Losers from the 2024 Chinese GP Sprint Qualifying.
Having started the lap slower than usual as a consequence, Norris was up against it right from the off – making his pole advantage of over a second all the more impressive. It’s in the trickiest of conditions that teams need to rely on their drivers’ innate talent and car control, and Hamilton duly delivered.Did we really expect anything different from the Spaniard, really? Like Hamilton, Alonso kept his head on and his car straight as he delivered the third-fastest time of the session.
With the Japanese driver out in SQ1, Ricciardo made it through to SQ2 and then finished with a second of Verstappen en route to P14 and ahead of Stroll in a vastly superior Aston Martin.There was nothing simple about delivering a strong lap in qualifying, in particular in front of an expectant home crowd, but that’s exactly what Zhou Guanyu did throughout all three sections.
The upgrades appear to be taking the team in the right direction – a good and welcome step as both drivers try to keep their best foot forward in the driver market as contract time looms.In as much as you can possibly ever put Max Verstappen in this category, the Dutch driver had an unusually off-colour session as he badly struggled for grip in SQ3.
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