On 9 April, the qualifying round of the 2021 F1 Australian Grand Prix took place at the Albert Circuit, and after three stages of fierce competition, in the end, Ferrari's Leclerc took pole position, Red Bull Racing's Verstappen and Perez were second and third, and Alfa Romeo's Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu was fourteenth.
Q1
In Q1, Leclerc took the lead in the fastest lap of 1:19.391, and then improved his time to 1:18.881, still the fastest in the game, Verstappen trailing 0.044 seconds and temporarily second, Andes 0.298 seconds behind, temporarily third.
Verstappen then made a lap of 1:18.580 to grab the top spot in the lap table, while Perez also made a faster performance than Leclerc, temporarily second, leclerc fell to third.
With 2 minutes left in the race, Williams driver Latifi collided with Aston Martin driver Stoll, and Latifi's car lost control and hit the paragrid, the car was badly damaged, the race was red flags were shown, and the race was suspended.
With the help of the timeout, Aston Martin driver Vettel's car was repaired in time (damaged in practice) and eventually made it to qualify.
In the end, Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu ranked fourteenth and broke into Q2 again. The five drivers eliminated in Q1 were: Alben, Magnussen, Vettel, Latifi and Stoll.
Q2
In Q2, Verstappen took the lead in the fastest lap of the game of 1:18.611, with Alonso trailing 0.204 seconds and seconds behind and Perez in third place 0.350 seconds behind.
Perez then made a lap of 1:18.340 and rose to the top of the table. Sainz then made a lap of 1m18.469 seconds, moving up to second, and Leclerc made a lap of 1m18.606s, moving up to third.
The five drivers eliminated in Q2 were: Gasly, Bottas, Hiroki Kakuda, Guanyu Chow and Mick Schumacher.
Q3
In Q3, which decided on the top ten, Perez took the lead in the fastest lap of the game with 1:18.398, and Verstappen was 0.001 seconds behind in second. In the next gallop, Leclerc made 1m 18.239, rising to the top of the lap table.
With 7 minutes left in the race, Alonso rushed out of the track and hit the wall to retire, the race was shown a red flag and the race was suspended.
After the restart, Perez took the lead in a galloping lap, which resulted in a 0.001 second slower than Leclerc's previous performance.
On the final lap, Verstappen made a lap of 1:18.154, briefly rising to the top of the table, before Leclerc, who crossed the line, increased the lap to 1:17.868 to capture pole position.
In the end, the top ten were, in order: Leclerc, Verstappen, Perez, Norris, Hamilton, Russell, Ricardo, Ocon, Sainz, Alonso.