Lando Norris has taken pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix sprint race for McLaren ahead of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.
| Row 1 | 1. (4) Lando Norris 1’10.622 McLaren-Mercedes MCL60 | |
| 2. (1) Max Verstappen 1’10.683 Red Bull-Honda RBPT RB19 | ||
| Row 2 | 3. (11) Sergio Perez 1’10.756 Red Bull-Honda RBPT RB19 | |
| 4. (63) George Russell 1’10.857 Mercedes W14 | ||
| Row 3 | 5. (44) Lewis Hamilton 1’10.940 Mercedes W14 | |
| 6. (22) Yuki Tsunoda 1’11.019 AlphaTauri-Honda RBPT AT04 | ||
| Row 4 | 7. (16) Charles Leclerc 1’11.077 Ferrari SF-23 | |
| 8. (3) Daniel Ricciardo 1’11.122 AlphaTauri-Honda RBPT AT04 | ||
| Row 5 | 9. (55) Carlos Sainz Jnr 1’11.126 Ferrari SF-23 | |
| 10. (81) Oscar Piastri 1’11.189 McLaren-Mercedes MCL60 | ||
| Row 6 | 11. (20) Kevin Magnussen 1’11.727 Haas-Ferrari VF-23 | |
| 12. (27) Nico Hulkenberg 1’11.752 Haas-Ferrari VF-23 | ||
| Row 7 | 13. (10) Pierre Gasly 1’11.822 Alpine-Renault A523 | |
| 14. (77) Valtteri Bottas 1’11.872 Alfa Romeo-Ferrari C43 | ||
| Row 8 | 15. (14) Fernando Alonso No time Aston Martin-Mercedes AMR23 | |
| 16. (31) Esteban Ocon 1’12.388 Alpine-Renault A523 | ||
| Row 9 | 17. (18) Lance Stroll 1’12.482 Aston Martin-Mercedes AMR23 | |
| 18. (24) Zhou Guanyu 1’12.497 Alfa Romeo-Ferrari C43 | ||
| Row 10 | 19. (23) Alexander Albon 1’12.525 Williams-Mercedes FW45 | |
| 20. (2) Logan Sargeant 1’12.615 Williams-Mercedes FW45 |
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2023 Brazilian Grand Prix
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Jere (@jerejj)
4th November 2023, 15:12
The Ocon-Alonso contact was weird, & while neither was wholly faultless, I still put majority blame on the former.
Nick T.
4th November 2023, 15:34
This was a typical Ocon incident. The guy seems to be a magnet for incidents in which he blames others. Haven’t seen anyone not blame Ocon for this.
Alonso also had Hamilton running behind whom he needed to ensure he didn’t impede. That’s why he was getting super far to the right. Even so, the actual line was nowhere near where Ocon ended up being. I know Brundle said something like the outside edge of Ocon’s right wheels might be near Alonso’s on the racing line, but that was just wrong. I watched multiple overlays of that corner and a normal line would be a full two car widths to the left.
Nick T.
4th November 2023, 15:38
That’s why he wasn’t* getting super far to the right
StuBen (@stuben)
4th November 2023, 16:43
I think it’s too easy to blame Ocon and to dismiss what Martin was saying. Before the session Martin is at the sky pad showing Max and Charles laps from last night and Charles was much wider through turn 3 as his car doesn’t have the downforce to keep the tight line like the redbull without breaking traction. Fast forward to after the sprint qualy and you see the replay of Lando’s pole lap and he also has a moment in the same place as Ocon yet his is bigger and throws the car even wider. If a car was where Alonso was we’re seeing a high speed T-boning.
For me Alonso who knows a car is coming needs to either practically stop at the exit of turn 2 or speed up and get out the way on the straight. Instead he lingers between the two in the firing line and if on Lando’s lap it’s a bigger accident. Would you then blame Lando there then? because as shown with no car impeding it’s a pole lap rather than a big accident and if I worked for Alpine I’d be using Lando’s lap as evidence.
Sviat
4th November 2023, 17:16
@stuben – You’re safely ignoring one simple fact. Ocon wasn’t turning into the corner after he lost the car. He lost the car and was going straight and he would either spin or go off the track anyway. It just happened that Alonso was there at that moment. Ocon would still crash into Alonso even if Alonso didn’t turn to the left.
It’s clear as day when you look it from Ocon’s camera.
Nick T.
4th November 2023, 23:35
So, going by the reaction of others, you’re in a tiny minority. The fact that Ocon has so many crashes with 75% less races than Alonso and Fernando has NONE, speak for itself. Also, there was another car coming behind Ocon that was going to require Alonso to get to the left, that’s why he wasn’t extremely far to the right.
lynn-m
4th November 2023, 15:24
hope we don’t get another ‘first win’ lessened due to it been in the sprint gimmick that f1 don’t ever refer to as a race and where said ‘win’ isn’t even counted in the record or stat books.
it’s one of the biggest issues with this whole silly gimmick, championships won on a saturday before the gp in a ‘race’ that isn’t really a race and drivers like piastri & maybe norris today passing the finish line 1st to get a ‘win’ that isn’t a real win in a ‘race’ that they don’t call a race.
nobody will remember that Piastri finished ahead of everyone else in a silly sprint and no sprint win will ever feel like as big an achievement as winning the GP.
will be even worse if they get there reverse grid dream and we start seeing mid-field/back of grid drivers ‘winning’ primarily because of the reverse grid rather than because they earned a win in a full GP. I mean there are drivers in f2/f3 who’s only win happened in the reverse grid sprint races and nobody remembers them or sees them as any real accomplishment.
Archibald Bumfluff
4th November 2023, 15:30
Reverse grid races can be a lot of fun though.
If they are going to mess with the traditions of the sport, might as well have some chaotic fun in the process.
lynn-m
4th November 2023, 16:31
i’ve never found any reverse grid race to be fun…. just horribly artificial with action that tends to feel very contrived.
and then the winner tends to feel more like he won because he started further up rather than because he was one of the fastest on the day which is why winners of reverse grid races tend to be very quickly forgotten.
Nick T.
4th November 2023, 15:40
Williams better be careful or AT is going to overhaul them. Was really sad to see the Williams being so bad here. I knew they wouldn’t be strong here, but this was much more than I imaged.
dot_com (@dot_com)
4th November 2023, 15:47
I think at least Albon would have been through to Q2, but the red flag came out on his hot lap. Alpha Tauri are really looking good this weekend though.
dot_com (@dot_com)
4th November 2023, 15:50
Albon qualified ahead of both AT cars in the actual race, so hopefully it will stay that way.
asd
4th November 2023, 15:46
SPRINT pole: 1. (4) Lando Norris 1’10.727
GP pole: 1. (1) Max Verstappen 1’10.727
asd
4th November 2023, 15:48
Wait, this is wrong – the lap times in both articles on this site provide the same time (for the entire grid) for both qualifyings.
Nick T.
4th November 2023, 15:54
They were all tied. It’s the first time every driver logged the same exact lap time. Where were you?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
4th November 2023, 17:36
Sorry, my bad, that’s been fixed now.
MichaelN
4th November 2023, 17:00
It’s cute how the Red Bull and Red-Bull-by-another-name cars are converging in terms of pace. They make such a good pair, given how they’re both running Red Bull drivers and using Red Bull engines.
On an entirely unrelated note…