Team Summary:
With qualifying taking place on the Sunday as a result of the typhoon it
would get away on time with the Ferrari's leading the field out. Both
Williams drivers were out early but the session would be red flagged when
Robert would crash his car into the barrier at the start of the main
straight as he commenced his first lap. This would see the period but on
hold and all the cars pit. The period would restart with just one Williams
running and with the first times been set it would be Gasly quickest with a
1m:29.614 running on the soft tyre. But in a similar accident to Robert
Magnussen would also go into the barrier at the beginning of the main
straight. He would damage his car but was able to get out and drive back to
his pit.
The period would restart with a rush of drivers coming out but they would
all be doing the usual thing of slowing down at the final chicane looking to
get a clear lap. Noen of the top drivers had set a time but the first of
them would be Bottas who would set a 1m:29.413 to be quickest but Verstappen
would go quicker with a 1m:28.754 only to see Leclerc going quicker with a
1m:28.405. Verstappen was now second followed by Vettel, Sainz, Albon and
Bottas now sixth. Bottas would improve to be third but this would be fourth
as Hamilton went second. George was currently 17th. With the end of the
period the top ten would be Leclerc, Hamilton, Verstappen, Norris, Bottas,
Vettel, Sainz, Albon, Gasly and Grosjean tenth. Neither Williams would amke
it past the first period.
The second period would see the top ten been Bottas from Hamilton, Albon,
Vettel, Leclerc, Verstappen, Norris, Sainz, Gasly and Grosjean tenth. The
final period would see Vettel go quickest on his first run with a time of
1m:27.212 followed by Leclerc, Bottas, Hamilton, Verstappen, Albon, Norris,
Sainz and Gasly with Grosjean not setting a time in the first runs. The
second runs would see Vettel maintain his lead over Leclerc with a new
quickest time of 1m:27.064. Bottas was third followed by Hamilton,
Verstappen, Albon, Sainz, Norris, Gasly and Grosjean tenth. For Williams
they would see their drivers in 18th and 20th. But there was still questions
as to whether Robert's can can be repaired for the race which was only a few
hours away. |
Robert Kubica:
Robert would be first out for Williams running on the soft tyre. But at the
start of his first lap he would run wide at the beginning of the main
straight and would see his car going into the barrier. His car would be
recovered and Robert would return to his garage to talk to his engineer. His
qualifying was over and would later say that he would put his rear wheel off
the track slightly but would add that there were a few factors that he
didn't want to talk about which came into play.
Robert would comment to Sky Italia after qualifying by saying: "What can I
say, there have been a lot of issues this morning. No one is really helping,
it feels more like driver harassment than cooperation at the moment." Can
you start the race?... "Only if there are spare parts, we'll see."
George Russell:
George would follow his team-mate out for his first run also on the soft
tyre. He would pit with the red flag. George would return and was able to
set a time of 1m:31.343. With the second red flag removed George would
return and would set a 1m:30.970 to currently be 15th. he would pit after a
three lap run. He would quickly return for another soft tyre run. He had
dropped to 18th and his next lap would see him set a 1m:30.364 to remain
18th. He was just 0.641 behind 15th place which was a marked improvement and
was just 0.020 behind Perez. |