In Sunday’s Formula 1 World Championship race in Barcelona, Briton George Russell (Mercedes) will start from first place. Ferrari’s compatriot Lewis Hamilton will also start the race for the Catalan Grand Prix from the front row. In the end, the difference between the best two was very small, only 64 thousandths of a second, Russell achieved his third “pole position” of the year, at the same time it was the jubilee 150th best starting position for Mercedes.
Hamilton entered the first row with Ferrari for the first time ever, and with his second qualifying result, he pushed the season’s leader, the young Mercedes ace, to third place. Kimi Antonelli. The latter was thus left without the starting line-up for the first time this season.
Next to the Italian, the British world champion will start from the second row Lando Norris with McLaren. Both Red Bull racers, the Dutchman, will start from third Max Verstappen and French Isaac Hadjar. Less successful than Hamilton was the other Ferrari racer Charles Leclerc; In the last part of qualifying, the Monaco native flew off the track and crashed into the protective tires, as a result of which qualifying was stopped for a short time, but he himself finished in tenth place unharmed.
Antonelli will be chasing his sixth consecutive victory in Sunday’s race. Before the test, which will start in Barcelona at 3:00 p.m., the young Italian already has a 66-point lead over Hamilton in the WC, with Russell two more points behind.
