Posted on 11/11/2022 2:03:25 PM PST by God luvs America
Kevin Magnussen took a sensational maiden Formula 1 pole position for himself and his Haas team at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, with a perfectly timed qualifying lap on slicks before rain soaked the Interlagos circuit.
Q3 started with rain looming on the radar, and nine of the 10 cars in the shootout lined up at pit exit on the soft tire to bank a lap before the heavens opened.
Magnussen was the first in the queue to take to the damp track in the drizzle, and his position on track paid dividends as conditions worsened, putting him on provisional pole with a 0.203s margin ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.
But the Dane couldn’t celebrate yet. The rain wasn’t intensifying, and some drivers were setting personal-best sectors at the start of their second tours.
One of them was George Russell, but the Mercedes racer made a crucial mistake under braking for Turn 4. He locked up and skipped across the gravel, and in his haste to spin his car back around to rejoin the track, he beached his rear tires.
The incident triggered a red flag — and during the suspension the rain arrived and soaked the track. The pit lane re-opened a few minutes early, but only Sergio Perez and Lewis Hamilton bothered to sample it on intermediate tires. It was clearly too slow to improve on the times already set, locking in pole for Magnussen
“I don’t know what to say,” he admitted in astonishment. “The team put me out on track at exactly the right moment — we were the first out in the pit lane — I did a decent lap and we’re on pole.
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F1 ping- Haas gets pole position in Brazil.
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Fine with me. Competition is exciting and good for the sport.
I like Verstappen but frankly I don’t just want to see him dominate every race like Hamilton did. That was just boring, and LH is insufferable.
I watched that. Very cool!
Quite a feat. Freaky stuff happens. Obviously it ate Hamilton up judging by his late effort.
Go Haas Go!
I wait for the first Haas F1 win. It will be great if i happens. The F1 opposition to US drivers in the last 20 years or so has been horrendous.
Unless Red Bull has started to test some things for next season and messes up somewhere, I expect RB to be on the podium. RB has nothing to bust their collective a$$e$ for as they already have the driver and constructor championships in their bag. So they may consider using the next two races for testing.
However, I think it is a shame that a Dane drives for and American F1 team.
I couldn’t agree more.
Why did they have qualification on Friday and not Saturday?
American team with Ferrari engines. What’s the diff?
Andretti is hoping to get a F1 Tean together in a couple years. Hopefully American youngster Logan Sargeant will qualify for F1 next year?
“and LH is insufferable.”
WHAT! They are supposed to be counterclockwise. Every once in a while, they get it right.
Somehow NASCAR does it right every week.
They are having a short race tomorrow to set the lineup for the race on Sunday. They did it this way for three races this year and maybe a lot next year, we’ll see, I love it but the drivers hate it.
Got it- thanks
This exactly what F1 needs at this point in the season!
Agreed- a reason to watch the race
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