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Mercedes swept everyone to reserve the front row at Monza, as Lewis Hamilton scored the 94th of his career Paul Hamilton, ahead of teammate Bottas.
McLaren driver Carlos Sainz was third on the starting grid, 8 tenths of a second behind Hamilton, at a time when the British lap was the fastest in circuit history and his average time was the fastest. in the history of Formula One.
Mercedes’ dominance comes despite the FIA’s ban on engine adjustments during qualifying and races through technical direction, preventing teams from using high-power adjustments on their engines, also known as “party tuning”.
Bottas said after the playoffs he wasn’t sure how happy Red Bull was now after pushing to pass that technical directive and ban “match control”, while driver Max Verstappen placed fifth.
“As a team, we had a very strong rhythm on the straight lines,” Bottas said.
He added: “With the engine law changes in the setup, it will be better for us during the race than before. I hope we have a good race.”
“I’m not sure how happy Red Bull is right now with this change in engine stats.”
For his part, when asked by our “Motorsport.com” site if he didn’t use the Fiesta settings on his car, Hamilton kept his reservations.
“I don’t even think we ever used the party settings. It’s something someone made up. Who knows if we use those settings in Spa anyway?” He said.
This result continues Hamilton’s impressive series of qualifying results against his teammate and title rival Bottas, who today trailed the Briton by 0.069s at Monza.
Bottas had decided to go out into the ring first and gave Hamilton the stamina factor as he thought it would be best for him to go outside.
But the Finn declined to say that his lack of pull factor cost him a chance to compete for pole position.
He said: “I felt really fast all weekend so I’m a little disappointed to be second instead of first.”
He continued: “I chose to start first because, through our analysis, there wouldn’t be much of a difference, or maybe it would be better to start first so that I can focus on clean laps and not have difficult starting laps.”
He concluded: “I once tested the endurance factor at the end of the second section of qualifying, and it actually wasn’t that bad. Then I set the fastest time. I was also fast in the turns, so it’s impossible to say for sure. which is better without seeing the data. “
