The summer break is over, and this season F1 came to the Belgian Spa circuit this weekend, officially starting the second half of the season! In qualifying for Belgium today, Verstappen scored the fastest in the game, followed by Sainz and Perez, with Leclerc fourth. Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu, who finished 13th in Q2, failed to make it to Q3, with Al making it to Q3 for the first time this season.
There was an episode before qualifying began, when one car crashed into the guardrail after colliding with another car in the Carrera Cup, and the damage to the track caused the Belgian qualifying round to be delayed by 25 minutes before it started.
The track characteristics of this station are easy to overtake, and Zhou Guanyu, Verstappen, Leclerc, Mick, Bottas, Aucom and Norris 7 people replace the power unit.
At the beginning of Q1, Latifi, who used the yellow tire, took the lead on the track, but after driving the warm tire, he went directly back to the P room. Verstappen made 1m 44.581 seconds ahead to come to first, with Sainz 0.531 seconds behind. Two drivers, Alfa Romeo, Zhou Guanyu and Bottas, finished at the bottom after running a flight lap in the middle of Q1, and then both entered the P room...
In the final moments of Q1, the top four Red Bull and Ferrari did not play. Zhou Guanyu ran 1.6 seconds worse than Verstappen to briefly come to seventh, and Alben only trailed Verstappen by 1.091 seconds to sixth in the Q1 ranking! It attracted the applause and cheers of the whole team in the P room!
Ricciardo, who announced at the end of the season that he was leaving McLaren, and Hiroshi Kakuda, who made mistakes at the end of the season, ran bigger in the competition, the former ranked 13th, the latter finished 19th, and was eliminated after Q1 with Vatel, Latifi, Magnussen and Bottas, and Zhou Guanyu ranked 11th in Q2.
Entering the Q2 scramble, "Seven Champions" Hamilton took the lead, Verstappen then made a time of 1:44.723 to the first place, and Perez then slowed down 0.071 seconds to second. Alpen 1:46.806 came to tenth just stuck in the qualifying line. The "Prancing Horse" double males began to live up after that, Sainz seems to be about to pull up the wake for Leclerc, but the "Happy Buckle" mistakes are too many, and the subsequent 18th and 19th turns leclercer's rhythm is not good, and there are frequent mistakes from the third practice to qualifying.
In this qualifying match, the director of the front event specially "took care" of Zhou Guanyu, and has been giving many close-up shots to "China Week", and then the close-up of Zhou Guanyu's signature can't help but make Brother Bing start to think, is Zhou Guanyu about to "sign his name"?
Q2 final two minutes of contention, "head brother" Alonso 1 minute 45 seconds 552 rose to fifth, Albon in the first count of the time period brush purple ran 30 seconds 520, followed by 1 minute 45 seconds 675 seconds in the tenth place, and finally achieved the first time of the season to run into Q3! Ricardo was eliminated by 0.092 seconds slower, along with Garsley, Zhou Guanyu, Stroor and Mick Schumacher.
Coming to the final Q3, Verstappen took the lead in running 1:43.665 to the first! Sainz is second at 0.632 slower, 0.165 seconds faster than Perez behind him, and for Leclerc, all he has left to do is help Sainz extend his lead to pole position. Verstappen left the car, and Red Bull didn't seem to have the tactics to give Him the Perezra Wake.
But Leclerc's wake seems to have really "pulled"... The reality of the first time slot is slower than Verstappen when it eats wake, and then runs bigger when cornering. Fortunately, Perez has not refreshed his results since then to compete for pole position.
In the end, Verstappen finished first in qualifying, Sainz finished second, Perez followed third, Leclerc finished fourth, and tomorrow's race Sainz will start with the first pole position, Andrez will start second, and the specific starting order will wait for the final official confirmation.