F1 Singapore Grand Prix: George Russell among three F1 drivers to disappoint in qualifying
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc stormed to his ninth F1 pole position of 2022 in a highly-ente🐽rtaining qualifying session at the Marina ౠBay Street Circuit.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez will join him on the front row of the grid, but teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen will ♈have to recover from eighth after he aꦇborted his final lap in Q3 due to a lack of fuel.
Here’s who shocked us -🐭 for the wrong reasons - in Singapore.
George Russell - 11th
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell was a surprise early elimination in Singapore as he w🐠as knocked out in Q2, settling for 11th on the grid.
Russell struggled to match Lewis Hamilton throughout the various sessions, but his day was made even trickier by a strange engine-related issue which affected his ▨throttle.
“I was struggling with something relating to the brakes and the engine in FP1 and it was🌠 pushing me into the corners and it kind of felt like I had throttle on as I was going in,” Rus✤sell explained to Sky.
“I didn’t have throttle and it isn’t that [issue] but th𒊎at was sort of the feeling just sort of pushing me everywhere.
“It’s such a shame, I don’t think we would have been much better in Q3 because I don’t think we would have been able to resolve the problem. We’ve seen some indications already on the data of 🅘what it is so it’s one of those things. It’s reallyꦬ frustrating.”
ꦍRussell will have his work cꦰut out to recover from the sixth row on the grid.
Valtteri Bottas - 16th
What is going on with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas?
It was the sixth time this year that he has been out-qualified by rookie teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Zhou Guanyu.
Granted, three of these occasions - like today - were in wet conditions, so you’d expect more from Alfa Romeo 😼's lead driver.
Especially as Bottas was flying in the dry conditions on Friday. You’d think🃏 that the car had the pace - even in the wet - to make Q3, in the right hands.
Esteban Ocon - 17th
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon blamed a brake issue for his Q1 exit - his third ꦍof the year.
“It was definitely not the session that we hoped for,” Ocon said. “We had so🥃me issues with the brakes on the last lap and the car pulling to the right and feeling disconnected.”
With teammate Alonso making Q3 comfortably♚, it wa𒆙s a missed opportunity for Ocon.
However, given Alpine’s substantial gap to McLaren now in the constructors’ championship - and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo also being elimin💝ated in Q1 - his rare off-weekend is likely to have few consequences in the standings.
Who impressed us…
Fernando Alonso - 5th
In stark contrast to his teammate, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso enjoyed a smooth qualifꩵying en route to fifth on the grid.
It’s a track Alonso has always perfor🅺med well a♌t, even without his dubious win back in 2008.
He qualified only 0.5s off Leclerc, sugg🌃esting that Alpine’s floor upgrade for this weekend is working well.
Watch out for him on Lap 1.
Kevin Magnussen - 9th
There was a rare Q3 appearance for168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Kevin Magnussen in Sin💃gapore - his first since 2014 with McLaren.
Haas haven’t scored points since the Austrian Grand Prix back in July, meaning their P7 in the constructors’ championship is under serious threat, particularly with both ꦍAlphaTauris quali💝fying inside the top 10.
It’s a welcome return to form for Magnu♉ssen, who has been off the boil a🧜s of late, being consistently out-performed by under-pressure teammate Mick Schumacher.
A great q🅰ualifying for the Dane, who seems to excel in changeable conditions as seen at Imཧola earlier in the year.
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