The Oscar of Australia Piastri claims its first Formula 1 post at the Chinese Grand Prix with George Russell second.
Oscar Piastri de McLaren seized the first appropriate pole position of his Formula 1 career at the Chinese Grand Prix with the fastest tour to date around the Shanghai International Circuit.
The Australian, a double racing winner who previously only had sprintes poles, launched a minute 30.641 seconds a minute and was joined in the front row for the start of Sunday by George Russell after the Mercedes driver made a final effort to assault 1: 30.723.
Lando Norris of McLaren, the chief of the championship and winner of The opening of the season in AustraliaAbandoned his last lap – while Piastri has improved his time – and will start third with the fourth Max Verstappen by Red Bull.
Ferrari filled the third row with Lewis Hamilton obtaining the fifth, but at 0.286 seconds of the rhythm of the post after Win the previous sprint raceAnd his teammate Charles Leclerc Sixth.
“The towers were a little scratchy, but I’m just pumped to be on the post,” said Piastri, who started in the front row in Australia but finished what ninth after turning.
The first Australian to take the post from Daniel Ricciardo in Mexico in 2018 and the 107th guardian pole in the history of F1, Piastri had finished second in the sprint and can now look forward to a much more important point transport on Sunday.
“It’s great that Oscar gets his first post. He was close, a lot of lines before, and it was a mega-tour,” said McLaren Managing Director Zak Brown.
Norris congratulated Piastri for his success and was much more satisfied with his own car after working in the eighth of the sprint.
“We have changed a lot on the car (after the sprint) because we were nowhere,” he said, “blaming himself for some mistakes.
Mercedes has overcome the tire problem to claim second
Russell de Mercedes said he had trouble making the tires work properly, but that everything changed in the last lap.
“I did something totally different in this last round and everything came to life, the turn was great,” he added.
“I had a big moment in the first round, but everything met. I was really surprised when I crossed the line, I knew it was a good turn but to be between the McLarens – just buzzing. ”
The French recruit Isack Hadjar qualified seventh for racing bulls, a strong response to its nightmare in Melbourne, with Andrea Kimi Antonelli from Mercedes and Eighth and Yuki Tsunoda ninth for racing bulls.
Alex Albon finished the top 10 in a Williams.
Verstappen’s teammate Liam Lawson has already had difficulties at only two races in work, had another poor quality qualification and will start last.
“I must understand,” said the New Zealander.
“It was a disorderly session and if we had not treated traffic and things like that could have, but to be honest, it is still not good enough.
“I just need to get out of it. I think it’s just time. Unfortunately, I don’t really have time. ”
Red Bull’s boss, Christian Horner, asked if there was an emerging problem with a driver brought to replace the Mexican underperforming Sergio Perez and score solid points, agreed that it was a difficult day for Lawson.
“We will see it and go through the crossing and try to give it the best car for tomorrow,” he said.
The Australian Jack Doohan, who collected two penalty points for a collision in the sprint, also came out at the first obstacle and will start the 18th with his Alpin teammate Pierre Gasly 16th.
