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F1 GP Russia, follow the classification live in Sochi. Only Nico Rosberg has signed more than one pole here. Hamilton wants to match it
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RESEARCH FOR HAMILTON! It is likely that he lengthened into Turn 2 on the launch lap, returning without respecting the posts
15.13: ACCORDING TO VERSTAPPEN! Great tour, 563 thousandths of Hamilton. For the third time there will not be a fully Mercedes front row. Polo number 96 for Hamilton, second in Sochi as Rosberg
HAMILTON POLE AND TRACK RECORD! 1.31.304. Bottas second, but Verstappen is improving in the first and second sector
15.08: All drivers change their tires in view of the last attempt
15.06: Leclerc is angry that he failed to improve on the last attempt. It came back too close to Kvyat and from an aerodynamic point of view it was not an advantage. “I would have preferred to start eighth and not eleventh, even without being able to choose the tire for the race,” said Leclerc
15.04: Hamilton flies! 1.31.391, very close to the trajectory. Gives 793 thousandths to Bottas, Verstappen third for 4 thousandths to Ricciardo
15.00: The third trimester begins. Ricciardo, Bottas, Sainz, Hamilton, Pérez, Norris, Gasly, Albon, Verstappen, Or with the ten who will play for pole. There are two Renault in the third quarter as in 2019
14.58: This is the video of the Vettel accident and the Leclerc maneuver, very good to avoid it. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO
14.52: Verstappen slows down to qualify for the averages. Albon enters, Hamilton fourth and takes out Leclerc. The Monegasque is furious. It’s eleventh, less than half a tenth of a second. Russell, Stroll and Kvyat are also out.
14.51: He does, he only has one lap left to qualify, all or nothing
14.49: If Hamilton does not complete the launch lap in time, he will be out of Q3
14.48: Problems for Stroll, which at the time of the red flag is twelfth, therefore excluded from Q3. Stay in the pits, don’t reboot
14.45: Ricciardo is the first for now ahead of Bottas, Sainz, Pérez, Norris. With Vettel’s accident, for the sixth consecutive race there will be at least one Ferrari out of Q3
14.37: Accident at Vettel! RED FLAG. Turn into turn 4, Vettel against the barriers. Charles Leclerc passes behind at very high speed and is suddenly in front of Vettel’s car. He manages to avoid it, but what a reflex! ‘Cause that’s a blind curve, where you can’t see the exit
14.31: However, Hamilton’s time was canceled. 7 ‘from the end of Q2, Ricciardo is first ahead of Sainz and Pérez. Albon first of the excluded
14.27: Q2 begins! A few drops of rain fall. First sector Sainz and Leclerc with the same time, Hamilton flies in the second: he gives six tenths to Bottas who, however, could have made a mistake. 1.32.0 Hamilton, Vettel left for a second and a half. The German is now 4 tenths slower than Leclerc
14.20: Raikkonen, who will equal Barrichello’s starts tomorrow, is out. Vettel takes a chance, who puts him eleventh in the last lap. But everyone gets better. Thus, with the excitement, the two Ferrari drivers close 14th and 15th, 1.4 seconds behind Bottas.
Grosjean, Giovinazzi, Magnussen, Latifi and Raikkonen excluded
14.15: There are 3 minutes left in the second trimester. At Turn 2, Sky’s Mara Sangiorgio reports, the riders feel a lot of wind from behind and this may also explain the mistakes and drifting off the track at the first real stop on the track.
14.11: So far Leclerc has improved by eight tenths over recent free practice, Vettel is currently 14th, half a second ahead of the first of the now excluded drivers, Ocon.
14.08: It also eliminated the time for Magnussen who pushed the limits of the track at Turn 2. Hamilton could have trouble at the bottom of the car, even if the times don’t look like it. It practically goes down the tracks. Hamilton is 3 tenths slower than Bottas
14.07: Leclerc third now, Vettel sixth behind Verstappen. Gaps from Bottas remain high: 1.4 for Monegasque, 2 seconds for Vettel
one4.06: Bottas is launched reaching 330 km / h at the end of the finish line. The Finn pushed immediately and closed at 1.32.656 with a small error in the last corner. Hamilton second at 1.34.2, time canceled. Pérez, Stroll and Verstappen are inserted behind Bottas, all more than a second apart
14.02: Russell, on the Williams, chooses the medium tire. The day in Sochi is not hot: 26 degrees of air temperature, 34 of asphalt. However, Russell immediately returns to the pits. “The track is very different,” he says, obviously compared to this morning.
14.00: Q1 begins! We start with the big favorites of Mercedes. Over the weekend, Renault and McLaren appeared very close to the Red Bulls and battled for the second row. Ferrari, on the other hand, continues to fight in the first sector
13.55: Five drivers, among the 20 on the grid, always in Q3 at the Russian GP in Sochi: Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris and Esteban Ocon
13.45: There are 15 minutes left for the start of qualifying for the Russian GP in Sochi. Only Mercedes and Ferrari started from pole in Sochi. The Silver Arrows chase the eighth straight first full row. The Reds have never stopped entering Q3 in grand prix history
Five different drivers started from pole in Sochi at the Russian GP. Only Nico Rosberg recorded more than one pole position, two in a row between 2015 and 2016. Four in total the first positions on the grid for Mercedes: Hamilton and Bottas the other two on the team. Vettel and Leclerc, finally, the two Ferrari drivers, the other two polemen at the Autodromo that runs next to the facilities of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Looking at the pole position times in the different editions of the grand prix, which is being held for the seventh time, one can clearly see the evolution of the performance of the hybrid engines. Among the fastest poles, signed by Bottas in 2018, and the slowest, from Hamilton in the inaugural 2014 edition, the difference is more than 7.1 seconds.
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In qualifying, in 2016 Rosberg inflicted the widest gap on this circuit, 706 thousandths. The following year, Sebastian Vettel took pole by just 59 thousandths: It is the only case of a gap between first and second on the Sochi grid of less than a tenth of a second.
However, only twice did the driver who started from pole win the Grand Prix. Even if the first on the grid has always been on the podium. Starting in the front row is a guarantee. Bottas’s success 2017 is the only one obtained starting further back (third on the grid). Instead, Hamilton has signed the most considerable comeback on the podium. In fact, he started 10th in 2016 and finished second.
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