Pole Mercedes in Istanbul
Lewis Hamilton broke the track record with 1,22,868 times, but the 10th place will start from the 11th place due to the grid penalty.
Valtteri Bottas was slower by 0.130 seconds to finish second, taking pole position due to Hamilton’s name penalties. Max Verstappen was the 3rd fastest driver with 0.328 seconds slower lap and qualified to start in second place.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc drdnc, Alpha Tauri’s Pierre Gasly fifth, Alpine’s Fernando Alonso gold, Red Bull’s Sergio Perez face, McLaren’s Lando Norris eighth, Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll ninth, Alpha Tauri’s Yuki Tsunoda was the tenth.
MCLAREN READ IN SESSION 1
1st period. It started with the rain. The pilots started touring the track with the green light despite the dense oil bloom.
In the intervals, the asphalt started to dry more and the progress was better. In the first laps, while the pilots were spinning one after the other, the minutes gradually decreased.
In the 1st qualifying session, Lewis Hamilton led the best qualifying lap of Istanbul Park by 1.24,585 and became the most versatile pilot.
The biggest surprise of the first episode was that Haas driver Mick Schumacher made it to the second qualifying session.
In this qualifying session, McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo, Williams’ Nicholas Latifi, Alfa Romeo drivers Antonio Giovinazzi and Kimi Raikkonen, and Haas’ Nikita Mazepin were eliminated.
HAMILTON BREAK A RECORD IN THE 2nd QUALIFICATION
In the second qualifying session, all the drivers made laps on the tires in the middle entrance.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton broke the record for the fastest lap of the track with 1.23.082 and was the fastest of the session.
Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz, who will start the wound last place because he “changed his G unit”, was eliminated by not recording lap times. The other 4 drivers were Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel, Alpine’s Esteban Ocon, Williams’s George Russel and Haas’s Mick Schumacher.
GRADES IN THE 1st QUALIFICATION SESSION
GRADES IN THE 2nd QUALIFICATION SESSION
GRADES IN THE 3rd QUALIFICATION SESSION