Sainz on pole but penalty prevents all-Ferrari front row - The Race

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Carlos Sainz claimed his 3rd rod of the 2022 Formula 1 play astatine the United States Grand Prix, with lone a 10-place punishment for Charles Leclerc denying Ferrari a front-row sweep.

Leclerc had been the quicker of the brace aft the archetypal Q3 runs, past improved connected that clip lone for Sainz to pip him by 0.065 seconds with a 1m34.356s.

World champion Max Verstappen was lone 4th astatine archetypal successful Q3, down Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes.

He looked connected people for rod connected his adjacent effort but mislaid clip successful the last assemblage and ended up third, albeit conscionable 0.092s disconnected pole.

Leclerc’s penalty for caller motor components volition determination Verstappen’s Red Bull onto the beforehand enactment with Sainz.

Hamilton was lone 5th successful the end, but penalties for Leclerc and fourth-fastest Sergio Perez crook that into third, with Mercedes team-mate George Russell alongside him.

Aston Martin besides benefits from the penalties, Lance Stroll moving up from seventh to 5th connected the grid. His team-mate Sebastian Vettel was knocked retired of the apical 10 precocious successful Q2 but is acceptable to extremity up 10th erstwhile penalties instrumentality effect.

Lando Norris’s McLaren and Valtteri Bottas’s Alfa Romeo are acceptable to beryllium promoted to sixth and seventh.

Bottas’s team-mate Zhou Guanyu had laps deleted for way limits offences successful some Q1 and Q2, the 2nd of those denying him a Q3 spot and handing that to Norris instead. Zhou had a five-place punishment coming anyhow truthful is acceptable to commencement 19th.

Fernando Alonso is presently the different penalised driver. He qualified ninth, portion Alpine team-mate Esteban Ocon was a daze Q1 departure successful 18th, and volition driblet to 14th.

On the time Logan Sargeant was announced arsenic his 2023 Williams team-mate, superlicence permitting, Alex Albon achieved his second-best qualifying of 2022 with what volition beryllium eighth spot aft the penalties. His existent team-mate Nicholas Latifi starts last.

Daniel Ricciardo had hinted earlier successful the play that helium was getting connected amended with the upgraded McLaren, but an mistake connected his last Q1 thigh near him 17th successful qualifying.

Haas had a disappointing qualifying astatine its location contention weekend. Kevin Magnussen was lone 16th and Q1 spinner Mick Schumacher 19th.