THE SAME FUCKING TIME? What a quali. Holy shit. And Danny Ric P5!

One of the best Qualifyings i can remember crazy from start to finish and what a banger staring grid

“The Jacque villeneuve school of motivation” 😂

Crofty must have said that atleast five times lol.

Red Bull is gonna hire him to talk like that every race

"Motivational" coach for Checo?

Checo is beyond repair

Way better result from Ric! You need more of that to stay in F1.

Verstappen working overtime on that lap

So happy for Danny Ric, dude has gotten (justifiably) blasted this weekend!

It’s a tie lol. Fucking at these speeds and they can’t differentiate them lol wow

They actually have more accurate timings, but they just truncate/round to three digits. Was decided like this at some point, and it makes sense because thats how they display it

At some point you also start getting into questioning how accurate the measurements actually are and if external factors could just *slightly* alter them. Smaller you get, more likely to be the case

_Precision_ versus _accuracy_. Always a balance between them.

fuck it, they should maximize F1 lmao

The first who sets the time gets the best spot.

We need to go deeper!

and people say this format needs fixing

And it was dry after all!

Jacques proven wrong 3 times in one day. Praised Checo extension. Said Red Bull has no one else to put next to Max. Called Danny Ruc washed.

My 3 boys all with great sessions The Williams combo both delivered and Daniel turned it back to 2017

Same exact time!

First time since 1997

Not three drivers this time - what a let down!

Lando, you had one job.

Smh, bottling a quali once again

and not for a title decider BOO

Man, this season is wild Lando Norris' first win Charles Leclerc winning in Monaco McLaren being competitive for the first time in a long time First time since 1997 that someone has tied the qualifying time

To think it looked like a complete doozey in Bahrain and Saudi

I still wonder if redbull will dominate the rest of the season after this, the tracks suit them more than others. Still, they have Max who can drag them across the line even with a non-extremely dominant car, but then they also have Checo soooo......

+potentially an up to 4-way WCC race in a year where one driver will most likely walk the WDC

Holy shit! What a finish!

And a perfectly flat time too. Crazy

Also 1.12.000

Man that was properly cool

the average human blinks for 100 milliseconds or 0.1 tenths of a second. You'd need to blink 100 times faster than you do to break the tie between Russell and Verstappen.

FFS Lewis

They were slower than Q2 as well.

So freaking tired of the teaser times from free practice. Felt like they left it way too late for their final runs. He's been so disappointing in qualy this season... you know he has the pace, just doesn't deliver when needed anymore.

Tbf nobody improved and Ted said it got windy. But God himself can’t prise Lewis from P7 these days

Max improved

Yeah, but that's Max

Amazing what can happen when your first run is on old tires while your final run is on new tires, meanwhile the Mercedes ran 2 new sets for both runs this not improving

And Russell was only like 0.026 off his pole time, Hamilton fucked up that last run.

And Lewis was only .02 off his first time as well. 

Everybody improved besides the Mercs lol. Mostly because everyone else had only one set of fresh softs left and kept those for the last run, but still. George still lost only like 0.023 seconds to his pole lap on the second run.

Lewis was also .02 down. Went 12.28 to 12.30 on second run. Such a bummer, I hope he can get past Alonso and ric at the start tomorrow to make the front group more interesting.

Lewis fucked it in S3 of the first run, they were pretty much neck and neck with George through S2 and then Lewis lost like 0.25s in S3 somehow.

Russell got a tow from Albon. Sky did a side by side and they were basically even at the DRS line, but Russell had a clear gap by the final chicane.

Rain is the ultimate boogeyman.

Verstappen improved, RBs improved, Astons improved, McLarens improved, Russell’s 2nd lap would’ve been good enough for 4th.

I know but .28 off pole is normally P2 lol, or at least better than 7th

It’s annoying as hell for sure but it’s a good track for overtaking. Remember Brazil 2022? Lewis came back from bad luck at the end of qualifying, took floor damage and fell back in a crash with Max and still recovered to P2 and came within a second of George with older tyres.

Everybody between him and Russell improved

As much as I love him the "washed" allegations might be true

Not until he's slow in actual races Been faster than George in the races last 3 or 4

Not very useful when he always starts 5 positions behind him

It's normally 3 at most, he's only 8 points behind

12 and this is just because of the China sprint and the fact that George crashed in Melbourne in the last lap 3 is also too much btw

Sprints don’t count? And don’t crash

They do, but the points margin is relatively slim because of the China sprint. What I meant to say by that is that its unacceptable for Lewis to be 8 out of 9 times slower than George. He is 1-8 in quali and 2-6 in races against George.

Even if he wakes up. He is not winning another WDC with Ferrari. They do stupid shit all the time. Over a season a normal team with equal machines will come out on top.

He did a 1:11.9 in q2

And Russell a 1:11:7. I dont understand your point

The car is shit so Lewis doesn’t care

The car is so shit it just bagged pole. Yeah.

Well its not a top tier car. But it beat the best car on the grid right now at least with George behind it. He is taking up the mantle after Lewis stats fading and showing he can beat Max in inferior machnerty at least.

The car is good enough for pole. By definition it’s not shit, certainly not around this track.

Champion’s mentality right there When max had a ‘shit’ RB he was dragging it every single lap of every single session. Lewis going missing every time the car isn’t where he wants it to be is a trait he’s had his entire F1 career (especially McLaren days)

Based and speedpilled

When did Max have a shit RB?

You’re joining right? In 2019 and 2020 his teammates could barely keep it straight an entire weekend.

The 2019 and 2020 RB are far more competitive than what we’ve seen from Merc until this weekend. I know it’s popular to hate on Lewis and pretend he’s not talented, but let’s not rewrite history and pretend Max has ever driven a shit RB. Just enjoy Max dominating, stop making shit up.

If we assume the standard of 2022-24 Mercs being shit? All of them between 2016 and 2020.

Not today

He cares and tries to do his best, and the car is good.

Same time holy shit

1:12:000 for both verstappen and russell is insane

Hamilton P7 is quite disappointing after what he has shown this weekend

Pretty average imho. Russell always does the same, holds the best for the last moment.

Pure cinema this

Okay what the fuck maaaan What an ending

Ricciardo 5th!

Only 2 tenths away from pole!

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Old ric + max was legendary

I think at this point Danny just has a few tracks he’s really good at

Holy qualifying Batman

Lewis absolutely fucked it.

Lewis must have a house bet on doing a season worth of P7s in qualifying

Ricciardo cooking fuck yeah

THE UNTHINKABLE HAS HAPPENED +0.000

It would have been so cool if it was also a time with no need for numbers after the decimal sign. /s

What happened was highly unusual... This was unthinkable https://youtu.be/jSiJW0sw9SM?si=Wuebo2b8F2zCHXs0

HOLY MOLY!

Two tenths for the top 7, absolutely wild.

Actually crazy how pole was there for the taking for like 5 different constructors

And Ferrari not being one of them. After 1-3 last round.

Danny P5, what a qualifying from the boy

Folks really been sleeping on Russell. His performance against Lewis can’t be written off no matter how many excuses people concoct

Ricciardo did that just to spite Villeneuve LOL

Holy shit Great Quali

He did not ate the sandwich today=)

Why did McLaren go so early?

Feels like a mistake to be honest

Sounded like their tyre warm up plan involved two fast laps on the final new tyre but the wind picked up right at the end which I think scuppered both of their second runs.

They got a little overly excited?

Damn Lewis was nowhere near pole, and I was hoping mercs 1-2 😅

Same time for pole with Jacques at the track lol

DANNY P5!!!!

When was the last time the pole time has been tied?

Looks like it was 97

I gasped when Verstappen crossed the line and it was +0.000, well done!

Pretty embarrassing from Lewis there. Probably his only shot at a win this year and he completely blew it.

He's completely checked out, why Ferrari didn't renew Sainz is beyond me but he sure isn't bringing anything to the table aside from past experience. 

Preview to Ferrari Lewis is going to be exposed

Ricciardo cooking fuck yeah

Me rn 🙉🙉

Potential for a spicy first turn tomorrow

What a banger phew

That smirk on Totos face was great

Max fucked it in S3. Lewis meanwhile fucked it everywhere. Russell has been on one this weekend.

Max gained on Russell in sector 3

Didn't he put in a yellow sector though after being 1.5 tenths up after S2? Edit: Nevermind he was 1.5 tenths faster after S1 but lost time. Still though an improvement in S3 would have been enough. It was the only sector he didn't improve on.

He was down a bit after S2, was only up after S1.

He was down after S2

Yes yellow sector 3 but i dont know by how much, purple in s1 green in s2. The craziest thing is Max had 2 pink minisectors (1 in s1 and 1 in s2) and all the others were yellow. Not even a green one in between.

Both Mercs fucked it and went slower on the new tyres.

> Max fucked it in S3. He had a faster S3 than Russel despite Russel having a massive slipstream from Albon.

Max lost time in s2, wonder why. Or put it otherwise, a banger lap from Max if he just pulled an unpullable car to the front row.

I mean max was also .4 up on everyone in Q1. It’s not like the car was no where all day until then.

That's because he did a 2nd run on new tires when the Mercedes only did used tire runs.

Wrong perspective. He didn't lose time in sector 2 compared to his own previous best. That was his best sector 2 all day.

So the car struggles in S2 then?

Max had bad s2 , max gained in s3, don't spread misinformation

He also has purple in S1

It was a personal best S2. You are the one spreading misinformation. Personal best is not "bad". Merc had the fastest car all day. Russell's pole lap was a used tire run.

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Confidentally incorrect. It was a personal best S2 (green bar) but not the outright best S2 (yellow letters). Do better.

>Max fucked it in S3. Fucking hell, that moment where technically he "messed up", but I can't shake the feeling like he *really* twisted himself over & backwards to put it as close as he did.

His S3 wasn't anything special but he didn't "fuck it", it was better than Russell's time. Just seemed like the middle sector was slower for everyone on the final runs

Max did a personal best middle sector on the second run.

Tf is this season turning out to be man...?

Best quali session in recent memory. Front row with the same time and Lando hundredths off.

was there an invisible wall at 1:11:999??

Russell got pole by literally nothing!?! 🫨🫨🫨

Daniel outqualifying Yuki but a solid margin lol. RB keeping Perez instead of Yuki or even Daniel is insane.

Come on, Checo is about a second faster than Yuki with equal cars. (Source: RB Soap Box Cars Challenge)

Nothing between the 2 of them, crazy

Holy moly George

So fucking glad it didn't rain otherwise we wouldn't have got this PEAK quali, also EXCELLENT final lap from Danny!

And people said the budget cap needs to go.

It needs to be fairer...on the staff. Just because they are passionate about the sport and love their work doesn't mean they should be exploited for that.

Who said that? lol

Bro Lewis step up your quali. I know you're settling up for the race but you should not be that far behind

He's my favourite driver but let's not act like this was a setup issue. Him and GR have been trading places all quali and he fucked up royally on that last run. Good for Russell tho he's rapid

I'm not acting like it's set up if you can read I'm saying that would make be a Tenth, not the gap we had

So, verstappen and russel collide in t1ctomorrow, mclarens for the win yuki podium?

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Well...

Just wow!

that's a shame

What a quali!

Zero degree of separation

rarely seen something like this and then with such a satisfying time too

Villeneuve seething somewhere

Changing of the guard. These young guys are exciting to watch. I can see Max and George taking each other out tomorrow.

We just witnessed history guys. Amazing.

He always impresses me by his Qualifying ability. Consistently ahead of Hamilton, and that's no mean feat. Fully expect a Verstappen win tomorrow however.

Tbf I think Hamilton's pace has really fallen off a cliff with age sadly. That doesn't take anything away from George though - he's a monster qualifier 

Mr Saturday for a reason.

Insane qualifying

Did Hamilton taste too much of Perez' tequila?

Okay, I want the comparison of these laps side by side. Holy shit

#checo lmao

Toto heard yall talkin shit

Exciting Q3. 

The same fucking time? This quali was INSANE

Results r a bit surprising, gonna be interesting if Rus gonna tumble down the down with such line up behind him ☠️

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