Max Verstappen has taken provisional pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix for Red Bull ahead of Carlos Sainz Jnr and Lando Norris.
Row 1 | 1. (1) Max Verstappen 1’12.272 Red Bull-Honda RBPT RB19 | |
2. (55) Carlos Sainz Jnr 1’12.734 Ferrari SF-23 | ||
Row 2 | 3. (4) Lando Norris 1’12.792 McLaren-Mercedes MCL60 | |
4. (44) Lewis Hamilton 1’12.818 Mercedes W14 | ||
Row 3 | 5. (18) Lance Stroll 1’12.994 Aston Martin-Mercedes AMR23 | |
6. (31) Esteban Ocon 1’13.083 Alpine-Renault A523 | ||
Row 4 | 7. (27) Nico Hulkenberg 1’13.229 Haas-Ferrari VF-23 | |
8. (14) Fernando Alonso 1’13.507 Aston Martin-Mercedes AMR23 | ||
Row 5 | 9. (81) Oscar Piastri 1’13.682 McLaren-Mercedes MCL60 | |
10. (10) Pierre Gasly 1’12.816 Alpine-Renault A523 | ||
Row 6 | 11. (11) Sergio Perez 1’13.334 Red Bull-Honda RBPT RB19 | |
12. (63) George Russell 1’13.447 Mercedes W14 | ||
Row 7 | 13. (24) Zhou Guanyu 1’13.521 Alfa Romeo-Ferrari C43 | |
14. (21) Nyck de Vries 1’14.083 AlphaTauri-Honda RBPT AT04 | ||
Row 8 | 15. (22) Yuki Tsunoda 1’14.477 AlphaTauri-Honda RBPT AT04 | |
16. (77) Valtteri Bottas 1’13.977 Alfa Romeo-Ferrari C43 | ||
Row 9 | 17. (20) Kevin Magnussen 1’14.042 Haas-Ferrari VF-23 | |
18. (23) Alexander Albon 1’14.063 Williams-Mercedes FW45 | ||
Row 10 | 19. (16) Charles Leclerc 1’14.079 Ferrari SF-23 | |
20. (2) Logan Sargeant 1’14.699 Williams-Mercedes FW45 |
Penalties
Gasly: Three-place grid penalty for impeding Sainz and three-place penalty for impeding Verstappen
Leclerc: Pit lane start due to set-up changes
Sargeant: Pit lane start due to set-up changes
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Qeki (@qeki)
3rd June 2023, 16:19
Maybe all the hate/curses Ferrari got in the early 2000s is still on top of them.
Jere (@jerejj)
3rd June 2023, 16:22
Red-flagging for a car that didn’t stay stationary long was entirely pointless.
Not the first time race control has been unnecessarily hasty with red-flagging in qualifying or a practice session instead of waiting 5-10 seconds to be sure whether a driver can continue quickly or not.
Far from rocket science, yet they seemingly never learn.
I wonder if they’ll use the same argument as in Jeddah, i.e., temporarily losing track of a single car somehow.
Alonso’s floor damage was evident, so unfortunate that he couldn’t achieve anything better, but a good final lap for Norris & Gasly, allbeit the latter will most certainly drop to P10 with 2x 3-place grid penalties.
Lack of spacial awareness seemed to be a thing today, with not only him, but also Russell falling for this easily unavoidable error.
Otherwise, Leclerc, Russell, & Perez were surprisingly slow, so either something was wrong with their cars or just plain slow.
Jere (@jerejj)
3rd June 2023, 16:32
‘albeit’
DaveD (@daved)
3rd June 2023, 16:45
I think/hope that the red flag was for all the gravel on the track at a dangerous turn. If they really red flagged it for a car that barely even stopped before getting underway then something needs to be reviewed in their procedures.
DaveD (@daved)
3rd June 2023, 16:46
So Gasly will probably get at least 3 spots penalty and more likely 6 places???