Lance Stroll took pole position for the Turkish Grand Prix ahead of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.
| Row 1 | 1. Lance Stroll 1’47.765 Racing Point | |
| 2. Max Verstappen 1’48.055 Red Bull | ||
| Row 2 | 3. Sergio Perez 1’49.321 Racing Point | |
| 4. Alexander Albon 1’50.448 Red Bull | ||
| Row 3 | 5. Daniel Ricciardo 1’51.595 Renault | |
| 6. Lewis Hamilton 1’52.560 Mercedes | ||
| Row 4 | 7. Esteban Ocon 1’52.622 Renault | |
| 8. Kimi Raikkonen 1’52.745 Alfa Romeo | ||
| Row 5 | 9. Valtteri Bottas 1’53.258 Mercedes | |
| 10. Antonio Giovinazzi 1’57.226 Alfa Romeo | ||
| Row 6 | 11. Sebastian Vettel 1’55.169 Ferrari | |
| 12. Charles Leclerc 1’56.696 Ferrari | ||
| Row 7 | 13. Kevin Magnussen 2’08.007 Haas | |
| 14. Lando Norris 1’54.945 McLaren | ||
| Row 8 | 15. Carlos Sainz Jnr 1’55.410 McLaren | |
| 16. Daniil Kvyat 2’09.070 AlphaTauri | ||
| Row 9 | 17. Romain Grosjean 2’12.909 Haas | |
| 18. Nicholas Latifi 2’21.611 Williams | ||
| Row 10 | 19. Pierre Gasly 1’58.556 AlphaTauri | |
| 20. George Russell 2’10.017 Williams |
Penalties
Lando Norris: Five-place grid penalty for failing to slow sufficiently for double waved yellow flags
Carlos Sainz Jnr: Three-place penalty for impeding Sergio Perez
George Russell: Start from the back of the grid due to a power unit change, five-place grid penalty for failing to slow sufficiently for double waved yellow flags
Pierre Gasly: Start from the back of the grid due to power unit change
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Chiz
14th November 2020, 13:52
Verstappen is useless 😪
Jere (@jerejj)
14th November 2020, 13:53
Not quite Racing Point 1-2, but 1-3 is also good. A decent showing by Albon for a change.
trib4udi (@trib4udi)
14th November 2020, 14:06
Decent showing Albon? 2.5s behind his teammate… Only Kimi had a bigger gap to Gio.
Jere (@jerejj)
14th November 2020, 14:19
@trib4udi Yes, but otherwise. Apart from the gap to his teammate.
Carlos Medrano (@carlosmedrano)
14th November 2020, 15:40
Shows how fast red bull was that albon managed to qualy p4
hunocsi (@hunocsi)
14th November 2020, 13:53
Should Mercedes revert back to last year’s cars for wet sessions?
Srdjan Mandic (@srga91)
14th November 2020, 14:10
lol
The austrian commentators were joking: “And still there’s a Mercedes on pole!” xD
trib4udi (@trib4udi)
14th November 2020, 13:53
Rain the big equalizer?
:-)
Patrick (@paeschli)
14th November 2020, 14:01
Seems like daddy’s boy deserves his place in F1
Jay
14th November 2020, 14:03
But F1 drivers want more grip, not less.
Kotrba
14th November 2020, 14:09
Inside the teams – I would say yes. You can see that in most cases the better drivers prevailed against their teammates. But across the teams – No. The RP and RBR were miles ahead of others today. 5 teams, each with 2 drivers, reached Q3 – that tells you a lot as well.
Ju88sy (@)
14th November 2020, 13:53
Brilliant session, fortune favours the brave. Great Job Racing Point and lovely lap from Stroll.
melanos
14th November 2020, 13:54
Nothing like rain to show who can drive
DeanR
14th November 2020, 14:08
Enjoy the race and prize giving tomorrow 😁
Rodber
14th November 2020, 15:00
What happened to the wet weather ace? Still, p6 is better than Bottas by some margin.
Thomson (@fish123)
15th November 2020, 5:08
The real wet weather ace is in P2
slowmo (@slowmo)
15th November 2020, 14:06
He got his non full wet setup in a good enough position to win the actual race it would seem.
melanos
14th November 2020, 17:44
Well, I hope to. Would like to see Lance’s maiden win but given his poor consistency it is not very likely. I reckon Checo or Max are more likely to win, but Checo needs it most.
Carlos Medrano (@carlosmedrano)
14th November 2020, 15:41
It’s hilarious considering all the hate stroll was getting from Verstappen fans
melanos
14th November 2020, 17:46
Every week I post the N2M2F1 (No Mercs, no Max F1) results. Such a Verstappen fan
petebaldwin (@)
14th November 2020, 13:55
Congrats to Stroll. He gets a lot of stick from fans but a mediocre driver couldn’t have done that.
Jay
14th November 2020, 13:55
Mini reverse order race tmrw
Racing point…Red Bull….Mercedes
Mashiat (@mashiat)
14th November 2020, 13:56
One of my favorite qualifying sessions for a very long time.
JohnH (@johnrkh)
14th November 2020, 13:56
Wow that’s a result I was not expecting, well done Stroll and Perez. But I think Verstappen will favourite for the win tomorrow.
Dave
14th November 2020, 14:06
Never expected that since 11 years ago.
John H (@john-h)
14th November 2020, 13:57
Fair play to Kimi outqualifying Bottas.
Will be fun to tomorrow whatever happens.
Rodber
14th November 2020, 15:02
+ 1
slowmo (@slowmo)
14th November 2020, 13:58
Mercedes haven’t had a fast car in any condition this weekend so far suggesting their setup is simply wrong. Great job by the top 5, shame Verstappen didn’t get the pole as he was clearly fastest throughout qualifying but let’s see what the end result is once penalties are handed out. We just need a dry race now to completely randomise those who had a full wet setup versus those who went for a hybrid dry setup.
Further evidence qualifying doesn’t need changing imo.
Nigel
14th November 2020, 14:04
You are right. Merc no where. Something badly wrong in set up.
Well done Stroll and Perez, bad luck Max, he choked when it mattered.
Jay
14th November 2020, 14:05
Further evidence something needs to be done about the regular format to bring back driving competition in F1.
kuvemar
14th November 2020, 14:06
The fact that you need the unique combination of a resurfaced track + changeable wet conditions to produce an interesting qualifying makes it evident that the format needs to be overhauled.
Jeroen (@)
14th November 2020, 14:11
Special is only special when its special, not when its regular ;)
S
14th November 2020, 14:19
Better is better, no matter how many times it happens.
Jeroen (@)
14th November 2020, 14:32
I Respectfully disagree
Jay
14th November 2020, 14:38
F1 traditionalists seem to enjoy starvation so that they can taste a drop of water.
anon
14th November 2020, 14:41
S, Jeroen makes a valid point – if randomness is too prevalent, there comes a point where it is seen as a negative attribute, rather than a positive one. That is a widespread attitude across pretty much every single sporting series – there are definite tipping points where adding more randomness is increasingly seen as a negative development, not a positive one.
People celebrate an underdog coming out on top on those rare occasions because it is seen as a triumph against the odds – but, if the randomness is increased to the point where they are no longer an underdog as any success or loss is seen as increasingly arbitrary, then that success loses it’s meaning because it is no longer seen as a triumph against the odds.
You seem to be of the attitude that there is no limit to the randomness that should be added – so, would you consider it acceptable if qualifying was a literal lottery, with the grid decided by random lot, because that introduces more randomness into proceedings?
Heisenberg
14th November 2020, 18:07
Exactly!!!!!
S
15th November 2020, 1:31
@anon
You may not like ‘randomness’ in your sport, but I sure do.
That ‘random’ element is one of the prime features that attracted me to F1 in the 80’s. Nobody could ever feel comfortable they they would finish a race, no matter how fast they were. Many of the best races are the best races predominantly because of the lack of predictability and continuity. Current (minimum legal) reliability has done F1 a great disservice.
Lottery ‘qualifying’ wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world, no. The race would still sort out the order anyway – and that’s ultimately what car racing is about (the race and the events therein – not the start order).
Jay
14th November 2020, 14:36
Special is also special when it happens less often than the regular.
Jeroen (@)
14th November 2020, 21:00
No, that would make it somewhat uncommon ;)
Heisenberg
14th November 2020, 18:06
I successfully disagree
Dom (@3dom)
14th November 2020, 14:16
We’ve had so many interesting qualifying sessions using this format. Format is great. Never heard proposals for any other format that sounds remotely close to producing the narratives that we have now
kuvemar
14th November 2020, 22:52
The 2339 days since anyone but the top 3 teams have taken pole or the 125 qualifyings since then, of which 99 went to Mercedes?
S
14th November 2020, 14:11
This is about equally applicable to qualifying staying the same as Monza was for doing a reverse grid qualifying race.
Completely unrelated.
A reverse grid qualifying race here would have been equally fun to watch as what we just saw. Not at all because of the format, but entirely because of the changing conditions.
Clare bb
14th November 2020, 13:58
Team LH will be disappointed, rain for the race?
Maybe Bernie Ecclestone was right, random weather machine spraying the track
Kalun
14th November 2020, 13:58
Pink Mercedes faster than Green-Black Mercedes.
Alfa Romeo faster than Ferrari.
David Bondo
14th November 2020, 14:01
Incredible stuff. Well done Stroll. Stuck it to a lot of doubters.
I think the star was Verstappen. 4 seconds a lap quicker on the wets. Intermediates weren’t working with his car, got stuck behind Kimi, but still made it work to finish second on the grid, 2.5 seconds ahead of his teammate, 4.5 seconds of Hamilton. I think he finishes on pole by several seconds if Red Bull kept him on a warm set of wets up to temperature.
RaceFan.74 (@racefan-74)
14th November 2020, 14:01
Great qualifying, well done Racing Point.
MarcusAurelius (@marcusaurelius)
14th November 2020, 14:03
Best Q ever!
anon
14th November 2020, 14:05
Another opportunity missed by Hulk..
Paul Jones
14th November 2020, 14:05
Well done Racing Point!
Ham showing once again that Merc have carried him to his championships.
DeanR
14th November 2020, 14:10
Hehehehe enjoy tomorrow 😁
DeanR
14th November 2020, 14:06
Get IN LANCE!!! To all the nay sayers and haters…hahaha!
The lad does not deserve the abuse he gets. Well chuffed for you Lance!
Interesting race ahead. WDC No7 is in the post.
Imre (@f1mre)
14th November 2020, 14:06
It must have been the 2012 Turkish GP qualifying. (the season with 7 different winners in the first 7 races) They just forgot that 9 years have passed since 2011, not one.
Dave
14th November 2020, 14:06
Revenge for Portugal?
Pinak Ghosh (@pinakghosh)
14th November 2020, 14:12
Three factors – rain, slippery track and how cars react to tyres played a crucial role in qualifying. It is staggering to see a driver lose all confidence in inters whereas in wets was looking supreme. It is also surprising how Mercedes with their DAS trick could do nothing to bring the tyres in right window. A big shout out to Alfa Romeo Saubar for putting both cars in Q3 – dont see Williams doing that. Kimi is still a fantastic driver to have in the team. Daniel Ricciardo, he is there isn’t it, always there to capitalize. McLaren and Ferrari, two giants of F1 did not impress at all.
János Henkelmann
14th November 2020, 14:20
I guess this settles the “Stroll is mediocre at best” argument…
Pinak Ghosh (@pinakghosh)
14th November 2020, 14:27
Not really. The pole does show that he is a decent driver in wet conditions. Crash in Mugello, losing lead in Monza also happened in 2020.
DeanR (@deanr)
14th November 2020, 14:40
Yes it does and it should never have been in question. Its simply because he has a rich Dad…that is what he has been judged on.
MacLeod (@macleod)
14th November 2020, 14:43
He is just much better in the Wet still average in the dry. You should watch his onboard and radio of the last 5 races.
Carlos Medrano (@carlosmedrano)
14th November 2020, 15:43
He has moments but his consistency is horrible
Paul
14th November 2020, 14:22
Stroll and Perez are better Mercedes drivers than Hamilton and Bottas.
Dom (@3dom)
14th November 2020, 14:41
If Verstappen hadn’t switched to inters, we’d have potentially been talking about one of the most dominant qualifying performances of all time. It’s amazing how performance can be changed by the conditions, and maybe how we may sometimes have to adjust how we view qualifying performances in outlier circumstances
MacLeod (@macleod)
14th November 2020, 14:44
The Wets would be not enough the inters were to fast on that point.
David BR (@david-br)
14th November 2020, 17:50
It will pass under the radar, but Vettel 1.5 seconds quicker than Leclerc, who has still to show exceptional skill in the rain.
bosyber (@bosyber)
14th November 2020, 19:48
Yep, the Ferrari wasn’t great, but Leclerc hasn’t been impressing in the rain yet, Vettel clearly beat him.
Shaun (@usbanker)
15th November 2020, 0:19
+1
Colin
14th November 2020, 21:48
The 5 place penalty will have to be challenged. Those that didnt start Q2 as they followed the rules said they would not take any notice of the two yellow flag rule next time. A pit start is the minimum punisment. Disqualification is the correct punisment.