Despite being shown the door and getting shunted to the back of the grid on Sunday due to a grid penalty, Valtteri Bottas held his own and took a convincing pole position for tomorrow’s sprint, just under a tenth ahead of his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, with Max Verstappen making use of the tow to qualify in third place.
It was a great qualifying for McLaren, with Lando Norris starting in fourth and Daniel Ricciardo starting in fifth. Pierre Gasly qualified in sixth ahead of the two Ferraris of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc. Sergio Perez was sacrificed to give Max Verstappen the tow, he starts in ninth, with Antonio Giovinazzi pulling off another great performance to qualify tenth.
Both Aston Martins of Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll just missed out on the top 10, qualifying in eleventh and twelfth. Fernando Alonso qualified in thirteenth ahead of his team-mate Esteban Ocon in fourteenth and George Russell in fifteenth, promoted to Q2 after Yuki Tsunoda had his laptime deleted.
Nicholas Latifi qualified in sixteenth ahead of Yuki Tsunoda, who had made it to Q2 but his laptime was deleted, putting him down in seventeenth. Mick Schumacher was eighteenth, with Robert Kubica and Nikita Mazepin rounding out the grid.
Here is the starting grid for tomorrow’s sprint race.
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