The first session started with rain, which slowly cleared away during the session although drivers were able to chase down a quick lap beyond the chequered flag. Latifi put in a lap to take him 12th momentarily and still made it through to Q2 in 15th, beating his team mate who had the "improvements" on his car. Mick Schumacher followed him around and wasn't able to even sneak a peek at Q2 (neither was his team mate). It shows that Schumacher probably isn't the driver his father was and Mazepin must have been truly dreadful to flatter him. The Aston Martins continue not to benefit from recruiting Red Bull staff by completing the Out in Q1 Line Up.
There were no surprises in the second Qualifying session: Gasly, Bottas, Tsunoda, Ricciardo and Ocon out. Hold on...where's Latifi? Didn't he get through to Q2? He got through to Q3 too! There's a surprise. It should be big news for Ricciardo to be out but not these days. I'm predicting he drives for Williams next year.
The final Qualifying session looked like it was going to be a question of who crossed the finishing line of the drying track last. Even Alonso and Hamilton were in the mix. Sainz was first to seem to take pole; Verstappen and LeClerc were unable to beat his time and we waited for the other cars to complete their laps. Perez 4th, Hamilton 5th, Norris 6th, Alonso 7th then Russell, Zhou and Latifi unable to push higher than 10th.
The crowd were very happy for Sainz to get that pole but then booed Verstappen. He took it well, like the pantomime villain he is.
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