日: 2024年3月23日

Having looked good in Friday’s practice sessions, Leclerc was less happy in Saturday’s FP3 session and in qualifying he struggled with his front tyres.Having been fourth in Q1 and second in Q2, he tried a front wing change for his final run in Q3 in an attempt to find more performance.However, it didn’t pay off and having abandoned the run he had to settle for fifth.”To be honest, I think …Keep reading

Zhou qualified last at Albert Park on Saturday after he broke the left-hand side of his front wing on the Turn 10 exit kerbs on his final flyer, with the main plane cracking and the endplate eventually breaking off.At the time, Zhou was on course to be a contender for Q2, running at a similar pace to team-mate Valtteri Bottas who advanced.Instead, the Chinese driver qualified 19th and last …Keep reading

Albon’s own car was badly damaged in a crash in opening practice on Friday, and he didn’t take part in FP2.With no spare chassis on hand, team principal James Vowles made the call for Albon to take over the sole remaining healthy chassis for Saturday, meaning Sargeant would miss the remainder of the weekend. Albon was an impressive seventh in Q1 and then secured 12th in Q2, a place behind Lewis …Keep reading

Ricciardo was initially 12th in Q1 and thus safely through to Q2 before losing his lap time to a track limits offence, which dropped him down to 18th.However, even without the penalty he couldn’t match the pace of Tsunoda, who progressed through the three sessions to qualify eighth.The Australian, outqualified by his team-mate in every event so far this year, admitted he was left “puzzled” at his …Keep reading

The seven-time F1 world champion was eliminated in Q2 ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, having previously scored eight pole positions in Melbourne. He missed out on the top 10 shootout to team-mate George Russell by 0.05 seconds.Hamilton speculated the “spike” of promise shown in final practice earlier on Saturday had been undone by increased winds for qualifying that put the W15 challenger on a …Keep reading

Perez was on a warm-up lap for his first Q1 run when a hotlapping Hulkenberg encountered him in the middle of the racing in on Turn 13, Albert Park’s slow penultimate left-hander.The Mexican was only told very late by his race engineer that the Haas driver was behind him, with the focus instead being on preparing his flying lap.Perez was summoned by the stewards after qualifying, in which he took …Keep reading

Verstappen will start ahead of Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez after the one-hour qualifying session, which was split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3. Australian Grand Prix grid: Verstappen on pole from Sainz

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Verstappen took pole position with a last-gasp 1m15.915s effort, bettering a still-recovering Carlos Sainz by 0.170 seconds.Sergio Perez will start from third with Lando Norris the highest-placed McLaren driver in fourth. Charles Leclerc had been the pacesetter in the early stages of the weekend but an error on his final lap scuppered his chances to start from the front, leaving him fifth. He …Keep reading

Sainz missed the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix a fortnight ago due to appendicitis and recovered just in time from the procedure to travel to Australia and take part in the Melbourne event.The Spaniard produced a strong qualifying performance to grab second on the grid behind polesitter Max Verstappen – a result Sainz said was surprising given the quick turnaround from his surgery and the discomfort …Keep reading

The championship leader bagged his third pole of the season, denying Ferrari and Carlos Sainz a chance to lead the field away on Sunday despite the Spaniard heading both Q1 and Q2.Verstappen had struggled with the balance of his RB20 throughout the weekend so far, but incrementally drew closer to the front as Red Bull dialled the car in to the peculiarities of the Albert Park circuit.Continuous …Keep reading