George Russell recovered from a series of poor results in recent races to claim pole position at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, Yankee Scores reports.
Russell edged Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari driver by 0.064 seconds after Antonelli in the second Mercedes couldn’t match the pace, managing third place only.
🥇 Russell se lleva la Pole en el Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, por delante de Hamilton y Antonelli
❌ Sainz, 16º y Alonso, último pic.twitter.com/HnRlU3P3ep
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Leclerc’s Q3 Disaster and the Mid-Grid Logjam
The McLaren driver Lando Norris claimed fourth spot from the Red Bull drivers Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar, while Hamilton’s teammate Charles Leclerc crashed during his first lap in the final session and will start tenth.
That’s a pretty big hit 💥
Here’s the moment Leclerc’s qualifying came to an end 🎥#F1 #BarcelonaGP pic.twitter.com/XmX5kp76mw
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Piastri, who drives for McLaren, secured seventh place while the Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson finished eighth ahead of the Audi driver Nico Hulkenberg.
Russell Secures Pole Position
After being frustrated with a series of non-scoring finishes, Russell described the feeling of getting back in the groove as great.
In fact, the Briton driver had been falling way behind the championship leader Kimi Antonelli since suffering from an unfortunate incident that deprived him of some crucial points in the last race in Monaco, BBC Sports reported.
However, Russell has been showing impressive pace all weekend long and was clearly the fastest man in qualifying, leaving Hamilton almost no chance in challenging for pole.
Russell said: “I had a tough couple of races but today is all about putting that behind you and starting afresh.”
“It’s going to be an interesting race tomorrow, Lewis did an amazing job to get up there, we thought the fight was with ourselves and McLaren and Lewis was very fast in that session.”
Hamilton had been on the back foot all weekend after missing the first practice session to allow development driver Dino Beganovic a run.
“I was easily 0.4-0.5secs off in final practice,” he said. “I was thinking: ‘Where am I going to get that pace?’ I left the track between P3 and Q1, went back to my motorhome, and then Q1 I was first.
“These guys did a great lap, congrats for George but we’re in a good position to fight for tomorrow so we have a race.”
Antonelli said: “It has been a little bit of a difficult weekend for me, didn’t really have the feeling in the car.”
