In the qualifying round of the F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix that ended last night, Red Bull Racing's Verstappen Jr. won his first pole position of the season in the rain battle, and Ferrari's Leclerc ranked second, and the two will start in the first row in today's sprint. McLaren's Norris finished third, Haas's Magnussen set the best qualifying record in team history, fourth, and Albin's Alonso was fifth. The drivers in the sixth to tenth place are Ricciardo, Perez, Bottas, Vettel and Sainz.
In qualifying Q3, fans will be surprised to find that there is not a single May ben racing car in the race. To know such a picture, in the past 10 years of F1 qualifying is unique.
In this qualifying match, the two Maypen cars continued to struggle. After a thrilling advance to qualifying for Q2, neither Hamilton nor Russell were able to increase the speed of the car. In the end, the two's qualifying results were only ranked 11th and 13th, and they did not qualify for the final Q3 stage competition.
You should know that the last time Two Meiben cars failed to compete in qualifying Q3 at the same time, it goes back to the Japanese Grand Prix 10 years ago, when The two drivers of Meiben only finished 13th in qualifying, and Rosberg was in 15th place. Since that qualifying match, the Mayben team has competed in the 187 qualifying races since then, and at least one car has been able to advance to the final Q3 competition.
Even if the performance of the Mayben team so far this season has been disappointing, no one would have thought that this W13 car would not even be able to squeeze in the Q3 stage of qualifying. At the Imola circuit in Italy, Meben, the king of F1 for the past 8 consecutive years, was completely reduced to a midstream team. I believe that Meiben fans see the results of their own team in this qualifying race, and they know why Wolff will say in the interview: "The possibility of Meiben wanting to defend the championship of the team is only 20%". Now it seems that the Possibility of Meben Racing team to achieve the defending constructors' championship this season is not to say 20%, and even 1% is probably not there.
After qualifying Q2, 7-time champion Hamilton was interviewed by the live media. The Meben driver said helplessly: "Today is really not a good start, I also feel very sorry, the team is really very hard, obviously the car is still not very competitive. ”
The team has worked very hard, but the car is still not competitive, and now even Q3 can not enter, I believe That Hamilton's heart is helpless or helpless. At the end of the interview, the 7 champions even laughed bitterly. For the current situation of the Mayben team this season, Hamilton's helpless bitter smile is enough to explain everything!