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Max Verstappen blew away the field to take his first ever pole position at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, and will be joined on the front row by Charles Leclerc. Ferrari rookie Oliver Bearman made it through his first part of a Formula 1 qualifying session, driving in relief of Carlos Sainz - absent for the rest of the weekend after an emergency appendectomy. However, Bearman was knocked out in Q2 by just 0. Nico Hulkenberg brought out the second red flag of the day in Q2 for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, being forced to park his car in a run-off area losing power while he was on a run. Zhou Guanyu was knocked out without setting a lap time thanks to a heavy crash at the end of FP3, the damage more than his mechanics could repair in the time given to them - missing out on a hot lap by a matter of seconds.

Result f1 qualifying

After some significant set-up struggles during practice, reigning world champion Verstappen returned to form in qualifying to set the pace from the outset, with his initial lap of 1m Like Leclerc, fourth-placed George Russell flew the flag for Mercedes in the pole position shootout after Hamilton failed to make the cut, with Norris back in fifth thanks to a wild moment on his final run, followed by the high-flying AlphaTauri of Yuki Tsunoda. However, there could be a twist in the tale after qualifying, with both Piastri and Gasly under investigation by the stewards over an apparent impeding incident during the closing stages of the session. Q1 had already brought a shock when Sainz — in the wake of his heavy FP2 crash — dropped out in a lowly P16, meaning the Ferrari driver faces another race-day recovery drive after an engine penalty in Las Vegas last time out enforced a midfield start. With limited free practice time behind them, the field of 20 drivers assembled under the Yas Marina lights on Saturday night for the final qualifying session of the season — and the last chance to secure the right to start from pole position. When Q1 began, and after several minutes of no track activity, Verstappen dusted off his practice struggles to get the timesheets rolling with a 1m Albon was up in fourth position from Tsunoda, Perez, Sainz and Ricciardo, with Russell and Bottas rounding out the top 10, while Gasly and Magnussen joined the trio of drivers caught out by track limits in the drop zone ahead of the decisive final runs. When those final runs arrived, Sargeant led a sequence of improvements as the clock ticked down to zero but once again saw his lap time deleted, meaning the American rookie was effectively the first driver to be eliminated from proceedings. Ocon and Gasly were the final drivers to dip under the Q2 cut in their Alpine machines, with the former still battling his way through illness, leaving Sainz just over a tenth off the time required and sending more frustrated messages over the radio. A few minutes later, the remaining 15 drivers returned to the track — the majority on used tyres, but Verstappen opting for new rubber — to get some more laps on the board and begin their attempts to reach the pole position shootout. Verstappen picked up where he left off in Q1 by pumping in a 1m That left Ricciardo, Gasly, Albon, Ocon and Hulkenberg who had another lap time deleted in the drop zone after the initial runs, which were set to bring significant improvements thanks to the usual track improvement and drivers bolting on new tyres. It was another strong start from Verstappen when Q3 started as he clocked a 1m During the second runs, a wild slide for Norris through Turns 13 and 14 — after going fastest of all through Sector 1 — ended any hopes he had of challenging Verstappen for pole, and the Dutchman remained P1 despite failing to improve his time.

Ferrari will have taken great encouragement from how assured Ollie Bearman was on his F1 debut in place of Carlos Sainz.

The start of a new Formula 1 season didn't bring a change in the competitive order as Max Verstappen swept to his 33rd career pole position, but the Red Bull driver did face stiff competition from Charles Leclerc in particular in Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying. Here's what the order looked like following an intense first qualifying session of the F1 season. The chances of Max Verstappen leaving Red Bull are slim, but it's no longer an unthinkable prospect. If the three-time F1 champion did walk away from the team he's won every one of his 56 grands prix with, who could take up the slack at Red Bull? This Formula 1 season was meant to be a fresh start for Mercedes - but the results are familiar so far, and so are some of the specific problems.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen put in a crushing performance to set pole position for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. The world champion was 0. Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton was only ninth, 0. Verstappen's ultimate margin was smaller than many in F1 expected it would be before the weekend - some had predicted the three-time champion would be 0. However, his superiority was underlined by the fact that only Leclerc managed to beat on new tyres the time Verstappen had set on used tyres in his first run in final qualifying, and even then by only 0. Given the Red Bull's traditional performance pattern, which sees their advantage extend in races in relation to qualifying, he looks a shoe-in for a first victory of the season to continue a run of consecutive race wins that goes back to Japan in late September last year. And his performance bodes ill for a competitive season at the front of the field, after Verstappen and Red Bull combined to produce the most dominant season in F1 history in It was a little bit unexpected but luckily in qualifying the car came to us and I felt a little bit happier with the whole car.

Result f1 qualifying

After some significant set-up struggles during practice, reigning world champion Verstappen returned to form in qualifying to set the pace from the outset, with his initial lap of 1m Like Leclerc, fourth-placed George Russell flew the flag for Mercedes in the pole position shootout after Hamilton failed to make the cut, with Norris back in fifth thanks to a wild moment on his final run, followed by the high-flying AlphaTauri of Yuki Tsunoda. However, there could be a twist in the tale after qualifying, with both Piastri and Gasly under investigation by the stewards over an apparent impeding incident during the closing stages of the session. Q1 had already brought a shock when Sainz — in the wake of his heavy FP2 crash — dropped out in a lowly P16, meaning the Ferrari driver faces another race-day recovery drive after an engine penalty in Las Vegas last time out enforced a midfield start. With limited free practice time behind them, the field of 20 drivers assembled under the Yas Marina lights on Saturday night for the final qualifying session of the season — and the last chance to secure the right to start from pole position. When Q1 began, and after several minutes of no track activity, Verstappen dusted off his practice struggles to get the timesheets rolling with a 1m

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