The Spaniard from Aston Martin will start ninth while Carlos Sainz will be fifth. Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri slot in behind polesitter Max Verstappen.
Not so long ago, just a few months, the party was at Aston Martin’s house. In Jeddah, in Miami, in Monaco, in the first races of the season, the team of Fernando Alonso He jumped with his successes in the classifications: up to three times he started from the first row, only behind the Red Bull. Now joy has changed garage. The Spaniard maintains his streak of appearances in Q3 -without failure this season-, but each time he is further away from pole positions. If he started ninth in Barcelona and seventh in Austria, this Sunday at Silverstone (4:00 p.m., DAZN) he will start again from ninth position with the podium as an almost impossible goal.
His mission: hunt all possible points, maintain a certain regularity. The euphoria of the beginning of the year has faded and now is the time to pull the veteran, to prove that she can shine in the mud, out of the spotlight. “We will have to come back. It seems that the circuits with fast curves are not going well for us, but still in Hungary we fought for the podium and we return to the confusion. The best thing is to remain calm”, Alonso assessed in the mixed zone with a serious face.
With another face, between celebrations, are now the Ferraris, in clear improvement in recent weeks, and especially the McLarens. Despite the rarefied atmosphere in the Italian team, between the war to see which pilot is the leader, charles leclerc and Carlos Sainz They returned to England in a position to get on the podium. The Monegasque will start fourth and the Spaniard fifth, in a circuit where he already won last year. Like everyone, both suffered from the stress caused by the rain during Q1 and Q2, but they survived and in Q3, already dry, they flew.
“We have had a few qualys this year in mixed, very complicated conditions, where it is difficult to take risks. Likewise, everything has been decided by thousandths,” said Sainz, who did not end later with a surprise: the resurrection of McLaren.
Verstappen’s pole position
Lando Norris achieved the second best time in qualifying and Oscar Piastri, the third. An unexpected success. Almost a miracle. At the start of the season, the British team seemed lost, even going two rounds without scoring, but the package of new parts presented in Austria has done magic. All Norris was already fourth. Here, anything.
Anything but a winner, of course. Because max verstappen He took his seventh pole position of the season, the fifth in a row, and has every chance of winning again. On a circuit that is perfect for Red Bull’s characteristics, only rain could take it away from glory because one’s own mistake is not contemplated. The Dutchman is in the best shape of his career and that is saying. Infallible. Intractable. The complete opposite of his teammate, Checo Pérez, in depression.
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