Max Verstappen shatters Ferrari’s dreams with…

Lewis Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo were the big losers with the Briton out in Q2 where he finished in 11th place while Ricciardo lost a lap time for exceeding track limits to finish a woeful P18.

Daniel Ricciardo is the big loser in Q1
Led by Alex Albon in Logan Sargeant’s chassis, a queue of drivers sat at the end of the pit lane for close on three minutes waiting for the green light for qualifying. Running wide on the way into Turn 9, Albon’s first lap time was deleted.

With the issue from FP3 warming up the tyres still in play, Max Verstappen went quickest but only by four-tenths on the Haas of Kevin Magnussen before he lost out to the Ferraris with Charles Leclerc ahead of Carlos Sainz. Verstappen upped his pace on his second flying lap but remained third behind the Ferraris.

Meanwhile, his team-mate Sergio Perez was involved in an alleged impeding incident with Nico Hulkenberg, Pierre Gasly went limping back to the pits as his A524 suffered a rear-left puncture when he brushed the wall, and Fernando Alonso set the pace. Gasly was also noted for crossing the white line at the pit exit.