Row 1 | 1. Lewis Hamilton 1’31.304 Mercedes | |
2. Max Verstappen 1’31.867 Red Bull | ||
Row 2 | 3. Valtteri Bottas 1’31.956 Mercedes | |
4. Sergio Perez 1’32.317 Racing Point | ||
Row 3 | 5. Daniel Ricciardo 1’32.364 Renault | |
6. Carlos Sainz Jnr 1’32.550 McLaren | ||
Row 4 | 7. Esteban Ocon 1’32.624 Renault | |
8. Lando Norris 1’32.847 McLaren | ||
Row 5 | 9. Pierre Gasly 1’33.000 AlphaTauri | |
10. Charles Leclerc 1’33.239 Ferrari | ||
Row 6 | 11. Daniil Kvyat 1’33.249 AlphaTauri | |
12. Lance Stroll 1’33.364 Racing Point | ||
Row 7 | 13. George Russell 1’33.583 Williams | |
14. Sebastian Vettel 1’33.609 Ferrari | ||
Row 8 | 15. Alexander Albon 1’33.008 Red Bull | |
16. Romain Grosjean 1’34.592 Haas | ||
Row 9 | 17. Antonio Giovinazzi 1’34.594 Alfa Romeo | |
18. Kevin Magnussen 1’34.681 Haas | ||
Row 10 | 19. Kimi Raikkonen 1’35.267 Alfa Romeo | |
20. Nicholas Latifi 1’35.066 Williams |
Penalties
Alexander Albon – Five-place grid penalty for gearbox change
Nicholas Latifi – Five-place grid penalty for gearbox change
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Jere (@jerejj)
26th September 2020, 14:16
How was Albon that slow in S2 and S3? S1 time was pretty decent.
slowmo (@slowmo)
26th September 2020, 14:20
This is his last year in F1 anyway. No excuse for being over a second slower than your teammate.
Bottas equally poor on pace in fairness along with Ocon in comparison to their teammates.
slowmo (@slowmo)
26th September 2020, 14:24
Correction as I missed Ocon had improved.
Jamie B
26th September 2020, 14:31
And yet, this being Sochi with that long run to T1, Bottas is in the best starting position on the grid
Homerlovesbeer (@homerlovesbeer)
26th September 2020, 14:38
Lewis on Softs while Bottas on mediums
knightameer (@knightameer)
26th September 2020, 14:16
Max does it again. And well, Lewis is Lewis.
Homerlovesbeer (@homerlovesbeer)
26th September 2020, 14:39
Max got a huge row from somebody……otherwise prob 3rd
Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
26th September 2020, 14:59
@homerlovesbeer Was Bottas, ironically enough.
Dominique (@tryneplague)
26th September 2020, 14:31
I like Albon, but this really does not look good. Bottas is nowhere just as expected and people will still find excuses for him. Vandoorne interviewing drivers actually somehow sad to see.
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
26th September 2020, 14:52
Bottas just happened to not be at his best in Q3 which hasn’t occurred much this year. His reason this time was that he simply didn’t get a good lap together, but nobody should say Bottas being nowhere in qualifying should be expected. He made mistakes today, but doesn’t normally. The closest to Verstappen has ever got when they both did a representative run was one single time when he matched him to the thousandth of a second. Never once has he beaten him on 1 lap pace. Otherwise the average seems to be half a second or so which is significantly worse than Bottas.
Lums (@lums)
26th September 2020, 15:02
@thegianthogweed
Not even Bottas himself can constantly defend his abysmal performances the way you do every time someone calls him out. Theres always a stat or reason for such poor performance from you.
2 poles and 1 win so far and yet ‘he’s not as bad as he looks’
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
26th September 2020, 16:27
My comments today are specifically talking about qualifying only. And in that area, he has been incredibly close to Hamilton most of this year. So defending the odd poor qualifying session is reasonable. Though he doesn’t have a good excuse this time.
Chandhok pointed that out on sky that qualifying is where he’s incredibly close to Hamilton the majority of the time so it isn’t just me noticing this. He has only outqualified Hamilton twice, but the margins in 5 – 6 results have been simply tiny.
His race pace isn’t great relative to Hamilton and I can’t deny that. But that was not my point today.
pSynrg (@psynrg)
26th September 2020, 15:44
@thegianthogweed Yet now more than ever he needs to be flawless, he needs to somehow unsettle Hamilton. It’s just not there is it, the consistency he know he needs in order to get a look in.
Maybe, just maybe, Bottas has deliberately gone for 2nd, the track notorious for not favouring pole… Perhaps misjudged and too slow, not counting on Max to get every last millisecond from the Red Bull and nab 2nd. Not necessarily a problem with good draft, but Max is too good, too smart, too aggressive to make this a straightforward pass. Assuming good starts from all…
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
26th September 2020, 16:30
Well, Bottas knows what starting 3rd is like here. With Hamilton on what looks to be a worse strategy and him having verstappen and Hamilton as a tow, that is actually a fortunate position to be in. I actually don’t think 3rd is much worse than 2nd and arguably as a thread on this site suggested, 2nd is often better then first here. Bottas is in a decent position to challenge Hamilton so I really hope he does. If he finishes 3rd this weekend without good reason, that will really be disappointing given it is a track he’s usually great at.
Jere (@jerejj)
26th September 2020, 15:38
@tryneplague I found him doing the interviews somewhat weird as he’s with Mercedes there, so the same team as two of the three he interviewed.
Rafael Perez (@rafaelperez)
26th September 2020, 15:45
Would be nice if you could include the starting tire for the to 10 on the starting grid table
The Edge (@the-edge)
26th September 2020, 16:10
Toro Rosso???
pSynrg (@psynrg)
26th September 2020, 17:10
@the-edge Surely they mean Minardi?
Sergey Martyn
26th September 2020, 18:48
Can’t see Simtek, Midland and Spyker.
Bagaman
26th September 2020, 16:31
One of the best and dramatic qualification I have ever see. Who says F1 is boring?
kpcart
27th September 2020, 3:17
Ocon is quickly heading the same way as werhlein and vandoorne 9-1 Ricciardo in qualifying already.
Alex Bkk (@alex-bkk)
27th September 2020, 5:12
I’ve given up on Ferrari for this year… I’ll pull for McLaren for the rest of the season for the first time since Prost, if I bother to watch F1 at all.