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Is all for today!
So that was it with our ticker from Saturday, we’ll turn it off for today. Tomorrow’s race start is as usual at 3:10 pm, but of course we will be at the start again from morning with a new ticker to get you in the mood for the race. At this point, however, it is the end. Have a good night, sleep well and see you tomorrow!
Hamilton’s pole lap with almost no wake
The world champion drove his fastest lap behind his teammate, but Renault Sport director Alan Permane explains: “The wake brings a few tenths. On the straights you probably win six, seven tenths, but you lose three or more again. four in the corners. If you get a perfect wake, that’s two or three tenths. Lewis is six or seven seconds behind Valtteri. It’s not a massive wake anymore. ” Ferrari team boss Binotto had already said before qualifying that you shouldn’t be out for more than five seconds.
Verstappen: If even Gasly is so close to me …
And another statement from the Dutch. But he is not (although it may sound like that at first) against his former partner. “The car just isn’t good enough this year,” says Verstappen, explaining: “Just look at how close AlphaTauri is to us. That doesn’t mean disrespecting Pierre. But if he’s three tenths behind me in this car is, so that says enough. “In fact, it should be further ahead of the B-Team, regardless of the driver.
Verstappen is stunned by Albon’s statement
The teammate spoke today of having had one of his best qualifying sessions. And it is also known that Marko is satisfied to have been “only” three tenths of a second slower than Verstappen. But he can’t understand Albon’s satisfaction. “I think if I was ninth I wouldn’t say it was a very good qualifying. But that’s not my thing,” said the Dutchman. In fact, the claim is a bit surprising when you consider that Albon only survived the first and second trimesters with luck.
Sainz: Renault engine close to Mercedes
The McLaren driver believes that the French are already very well positioned in terms of performance. “I think we are very close to Mercedes in terms of power. Now we need a little more reliability, which has already cost us a lot of points this year,” recalls Sainz. The Spaniard only reached the points in four of the seven races this year and the last time he was unable to start at Spa due to a defect. His teammate Norris, on the other hand, has only missed the top 10 once.
Hamilton: Qualifying format will be “a bit boring”
After the chaos in Q1, the question arose today whether the qualifying format should be fundamentally changed or at least a different format should be used on tracks like Monza. “We’ve had the same weekend format for who knows how long. It gets a little boring when it’s the same every weekend,” says Hamilton, adding, “But I don’t have any suggestions. Leave it to the fans. Find out what the fans want. ” Sounds good.
Jochen Rindt: Impressions from the Life of an F1 Pop Star
Today we are already talking about the 50th anniversary of the death of Jochen Rindt. Therefore, I would like to recommend this series of photos at night.
Photo Gallery: Jochen Rindt: Impressions from the Life of a Formula 1 Pop Star
With a cigarette in his mouth: this is how Jochen Rindt was known and it was not for nothing that he was nicknamed “James Dean of Formula 1”. His myth lives even 50 years after the death of the native of Mainz.
Photo gallery
Szafnauer: slower than “party mode”
The ban was not noticed at all by Mercedes’ work team, but by customer teams. Racing Point team boss Otmar Szafnauer explains, for example: “Normally this would have brought us a few tenths. Then we would easily have finished third, and even Lance would have been ahead despite his mistake. It had an effect. We lost today, we should win tomorrow. “
On the topic of wake, he explains: “The good thing about this year was that Mercedes is so superior that they didn’t care about the wake, they always drove first and everyone was in their wake.” In other words: if Mercedes hadn’t been so fast, the 2019 scenario could have been repeated.
FT3 incident: Hamilton asks for rules
In FT3, the world champion was very lucky that there was no collision by range. “That will continue to happen until they establish rules,” believes Hamilton. I’d also have a direct suggestion: “If you’re on a slow lap then you have to go from the sweet spot. It would be safer that way.” When a fast car comes up behind you, you have a free run. Of course, that would mean that slow cars can no longer overtake each other. Because that was exactly the problem in FT3.
Engine mode: Gasly will wait and see
P10 today “just” for him. On Friday it looked like AlphaTauri could go even further. Has Honda suffered the new engine rule? Gasly says (like his colleagues at Red Bull) that he doesn’t want to jump to conclusions after just one qualifying session. But he also admits that he hoped Red Bull would be closer to the front. “I’m sure there are things that can be done better,” Gasly said. But he doesn’t know what qualifying would have been like without the rule change.
Racing Point dreams of the podium
The first three were narrowly missed, but Pérez in P4 allows Otmar Szafnauer to dream of the podium. “P4 is Sergio’s best starting position at Monza. It gives us a great opportunity to get on the podium tomorrow,” said the team boss. “It is always important to qualify well here because overtaking is very difficult,” says Pérez himself, who was second on the podium in 2012 at Monza. Things did not go so well for his teammate Stroll. He reports that he made a mistake on his first attempt in Q3. So in the end it was just P8 for him. A much more difficult starting position.
Wolff: “party mode” is not always used
An interesting statement from Toto Wolff’s media panel. Hamilton joked at PK that Mercedes might not have used “party mode” at Spa recently. Wolff makes it clear: “We used it in Belgium. But there were race weekends where we didn’t use it.” However, it leaves the careers involved open. So far this year, all posts have gone to Mercedes, regardless of mode.
Norris: lost the decisive lap early
P3 for the teammate, but Norris only finished sixth today. He reveals: “I missed the vertex [in Kurve 1] something and took too much of the curb outside at Turn 2. I wasted most of the time. “He struggled all day in Sector 1. By the way, Sainz also reveals that he almost overdid it on his lap and threw P3 into the Ascari chicane because “he risked a lot.” “I thought, ‘Wow, that was too late,'” Sainz said, but in the end it worked.
Wolff responds to Horner: No Hamilton Bonus!
The Red Bull team boss has assumed that Mercedes prefers Hamilton. Toto Wolff says: nonsense! “We do not give priority to one driver over the other,” the Mercedes team boss clarifies, explaining: “We have always been completely open, transparent and fair. And we will continue to be in the future.” It seems somewhat fashionable at the moment to talk about other people’s drivers. See Hamilton and Albon …
Ocon: max time made it worse
As a reminder: the drivers were not allowed to waste time in qualifying and had to maintain a maximum time on their warm-up lap. Ocon says that made the situation worse rather than better. “At some point we have to leave a gap to make the round,” he explains. The ruler then ensured that no one had time for that. Otherwise, the maximum time would have been exceeded. That’s why so many drivers started their lap at the end of Q1 without a gap with the vehicle in front, which then led to chaos. Tomorrow, Ocon will only start from P12, for him he had already finished in Q2.
Mercedes: That’s why there was no wake
Hamilton and Bottas were so fast today that they didn’t have to rely on the wake to get to the front row. Andrew Shovlin explains: “Yesterday we looked at the effects of the wake and it seemed like we were losing as much in the corners as we were winning on the straights, so we decided to pursue free laps for our races, which also means qualifying.” something got easier. “
Regarding the race, he adds: “The race should be a one-stop strategy for everyone tomorrow. On Friday it looked like Max would get closer to us on pace in long races. He starts a few positions behind us, but we know how good. which is on the run, so it probably won’t be long before I get further. ” As is well known, the Dutch himself is not so sure.
