But Verstappen eclipsed that with a 1m 20.922s, leaving the Ferraris behind in P2 and P3, and team mate Perez fourth – over half a second off – as Russell rounded out the initial top five. With time for one last run, Sainz had helped Leclerc around the track to cross the line with a time of 1m 21.280s, the Spanish driver going 0.068s slower after the first runs had been completed in Q1. Qualifying order would still be significant, as would the chance for drivers to help their team mates with that coveted tow around the Temple of Speed in Q3. Will Leclerc win the 2022 Italian Grand Prix from pole position, or will we witness a recovery drive from one of the nine penalised drivers at Monza? The race is set to begin at 1500 local time on Sunday, with live coverage and breaking news on F1.com.ĪS IT HAPPENED Q1 – Verstappen heads the field as De Vries makes it through to Q2Īlmost half the field emerged for Q1 in the knowledge that they’d be dropping down the grid thanks to a bevy of engine, gearbox and reprimand-related penalties. The Haas drivers rounded out the qualifying results, with Kevin Magnussen 19th and Mick Schumacher 20th – that pair to start 16th and 17th as Sainz, Hamilton and Tsunoda drop to the back of the grid. Zhou Guanyu qualified 14th and will also be promoted ahead of Ocon and Bottas – but having sat out Q2, back-of-grid starter Tsunoda will drop to P20 for Sunday’s race.Īs Alfa Romeo’s Bottas snuck out of Q1, Nicholas Latifi managed a pre-penalty promotion 16th ahead of Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel, with Vettel’s team mate Lance Stroll taking 18th in Q1. Substituting for Williams’ appendicitis-struck driver Alex Albon, Nyck de Vries finished 13th in his first F1 qualifying but is set for a top-10 start on his debut.Įsteban Ocon and Valtteri Bottas finished 11th and 12th before their respective five and 15-place grid penalties kick in. This would have avoided any impeding.Esteban Ocon lost out on the top-10 shootout in P11, ahead of Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas. After going wide at Turn 10 he could have abandoned his lap and kept off the racing line. “We determine that the driver of Car 22 unnecessarily impeded Car 27. “The driver of Car 22 considered that he was still on his fast lap despite the fact that at that point he was approximately three seconds slower than his previous lap time. READ MORE: Verstappen praises Red Bull for making ‘all the right calls’ on his way to a storming pole position in Montreal Car 27 was gaining on Car 22 and going into Turn 10, Car 22 went wide and then came back on the track in front of Car 27. Regarding Tsunoda’s drop, the stewards said: “Car 27 and Car 22 were both on fast laps with 22 in front. Tsunoda will lose three spots from his 16th-place qualifying position, while Stroll drops three positions from his 13th-place result. Later in the evening, it was confirmed that AlphaTauri driver Yuki Tsunoda and Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll had also been hit with three-place grid penalties, having impeded the Haas of Nico Hulkenberg and Alpine of Esteban Ocon respectively. In a post-qualifying investigation, in which discussions with both drivers and team representatives were had, and a review of the marshalling system, data, video, timing, and in-car video evidence was carried out, the stewards decided that Sainz had impeded Gasly in Q1. This means that Oscar Piastri, Alex Albon and his Ferrari team mate Charles Leclerc will all gain a place from his demotion. Sainz, however, made it into Q3 and qualified in eighth, but with the three-place grid drop he will start the race from 11th. READ MORE: Verstappen charges to pole for Canadian GP as Hulkenberg grabs surprise P2 in wet and wild qualifying session Gasly was completing his final lap in Q1 when the cameras showed him being forced to go off track to avoid Sainz at the final chicane, meaning the Alpine driver missed out on Q2, and is set to start Sunday’s race from 17th. Carlos Sainz has been handed a three-place grid drop for the Canadian Grand Prix after being found guilty by the stewards of impeding rival Pierre Gasly in the final stages of Q1 in qualifying in Montreal on Saturday afternoon.
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