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Brazilian Grand Prix 2024: Oscar Piastri wins sprint pole




Australian Oscar Piastri (McLaren), will start first this Saturday, ahead of his teammate, Englishman Lando Norris. Sprint tests for the Brazilian Grand PrixThe twenty-first Formula 1 World Championship, which takes place at the Interlagos circuit.

Piastri dominated the mini-qualifying, being fastest in the third and deciding round (SQ3)in which he, like everyone else, covered the 4309 meters of Interlagos on a soft tire in one minute, eight seconds and 899 thousandths29 fewer than his English teammate and 254 more than Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), who starts third.

Spanish Carlos Sainz (ur.Ferrari), winner last Sunday in Mexico, starts fifth in the sprint – one place ahead of the three-time world champion from Holland Max Verstappen (Red Bull), the world championship leader, is 47 points ahead of Norris, who will have covered just over a third of the route (24 laps, about 102 kilometers) of Sunday’s race.

His compatriot, Asturian two-time world champion Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) eliminated in the first quarter, starts sixteenth; and Mexican Sergio Perez (Red Bull) and Argentine Franco Colapinto (Williams) will do it from thirteenth and fourteenth places, respectively.

Five penalties for Verstappen on Sunday

Dutch pilot Max Verstappen (Red Bull) will have five penalties on the grid from Sunday’s race at the Grand Prix of Sao Paulo (Brazil), due to changes in your engine for the sixth time this season.

The World Cup leader was pushing himself to the limit, and finally, waiting for what seemed Upcoming change of power unit your Red Bull. This Friday the team confirmed a change that will mean a penalty of five places on the grid on Sunday in Sao Paulo, when the World Championship is on the line.

However, Verstappen suffered and in Mexico last week, where he finished sixth and Norris was second, this was the last straw that broke the team’s resistance. Red Bull doesn’t want Lando Norris to beat him (McLaren) in the Drivers’ World Cup or Ferrari in the Constructors’ World Cup.

There are four races left in the season. Brazilian layout This invitation to overtake and that is how Red Bull have interpreted it to play for now, even if it means Verstappen will start Grand Prix contention on Sunday behind.

The current champion, in looking for a fourth title in a rowscored a total of 47 points over Norris, who has proven that his McLaren is better than Red Bull this season. In the Constructors’ Championship, Red Bull is 29 points ahead of Ferrari, which has just won in Austin and Mexico with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.

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