QUALIFYING

Qualifying at the Algarve Circuit all felt rather… unusual. The low-grip surface, hard and cold tyres, plus the strong wind randomly buffeting the cars created an environment where drivers could go from hero to zero – or the reverse – from lap to lap, segment to segment. Consider George Russell and Charles Leclerc. Russell scored his best qualifying result with Williams, ending up 11th and just 0.057 seconds from reaching Q3. But he was also just 0.042s away from a Q1 elimination, where Daniel Ricciardo and Lance Stroll were shock fallers, Ricciardo left ruing traffic in his opening runs and a scruffy final sector on his last. Leclerc brilliantly made it through Q2 on the medium tyres, the only non-Mercedes or Red Bull driver to do so, then ended up qualifying eighth…

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Autosport (Digital) - 1 Issue, 06/05/21

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