The Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) will start from pole position this Sunday in the Italian Grand Prix race, the sixteenth round of the Formula 1 World Championship, a position from which it will try to take advantage of penalties from its main rivals, while like the Spaniard Fernando Alonso (Alpine), who will start sixth.
With a time of 1:20.161, which helped him beat the Dutchman in the time table Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and Spanish carlos sainz (Ferrari), Leclerc secured the first starting place, the seventeenth of his life, for an atypical race where half of the grid will have to serve penalties.
The world leader will fall to seventh placejust behind an Alonso whose lap was canceled for exceeding the track limits and who finished tenth in Q3, while the Madrid driver will change his engine block and will have to start from the bottom of the grid, like the Briton Lewis Hamilton ( Mercedes) and the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri).
Verstappen, no problem
In front of the ‘tifosi’, Verstappen had no trouble setting the best time in front of Ferrari in a Q1 which managed to overcome the Dutchman Nyck de Vries, replacing Alexander Albon at Williams. absent due to appendicitis.
The German Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), during his last meeting at Monza, did not pass the round, as did the Canadians Nicholas Latifi (Williams) and Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), the Dane Kevin Magnussen ( Haas) and the German Mick Schumacher (Haas).
At the start of Q2, the reigning world champion restored the first great chrono difference, but Sainz, with used softs, posted a stratospheric time (1:20.878) which earned him the lead and became the man to beat in the third and final run.
He improved his time further at the start of Q3, bringing it down to 1:20.584, but Leclerc appeared there to refuse the assist and sign himself on pole position for Sunday.
In the front row he will be accompanied by Briton George Russell (Mercedes), sixth this Saturday and benefiting from Verstappen’s sanctions -five places-, Sainz -at the bottom of the grid-, the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) -ten places- and Hamilton -at the bottom of the grid-.
Los McLaren del británico Lando Norris y del australiano Daniel Ricciardo ocuparán la secunda line de parrilla, justo por delante del francés Pierre Gasly y de Alonso, que tras abortar su primera vuelta en la Q3 vio cómo le cancelaban su segundo intendo al to exceed los límites de Track.
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