Press release
228KB
november 02, 2020 - Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport
2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix - Saturday
Valtteri and Lewis lock out the front row of the grid for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas #F1 Team in close qualifying session at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
- Valtteri clinched pole position, marking his 15th career Formula One pole position, and fourth pole of the season
- Lewis finished the session in P2, just under a tenth of a second behind his teammate
- The result marked the 10th front row lockout of the 2020 season for the team
- Valtteri and Lewis will both start the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on the Medium tyre
Driver | Chassis No. | Practice | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |||
Valtteri Bottas | F1 W11 EQ Performance /06 | P3 | 10 Laps | P1 | 6 Laps | P1 | 6 Laps | P1 |
1:14.221 | Soft | 1:14.585 | Medium, Soft | 1:13.609 | Soft | |||
Lewis Hamilton | F1 W11 EQ Performance /01 | P1 | 10 Laps | P2 | 6 Laps | P2 | 6 Laps | P2 |
1:14.229 | Soft | 1:14.643 | Medium, Soft | 1:13.706 | Soft | |||
Valtteri Bottas
It’s never easy to get pole position but I’m really enjoying this track. When you push flat out, it’s a beautiful feeling and I knew I had to dig deep on the final lap. For me, Turns 2 and 3 were something I really had to work on today, and I only got there right at the end; the same at the final corners, where I’d struggled with some instability but I knew I really had to push at the end, so I risked it and the car just turned in nicely. I was able to find the small gains I needed and it’s a great feeling when you manage that – I definitely had the shakes after that one! Tomorrow, it’s going to be a good fight: it’s one of the longest runs of the calendar into Turn 1, so no doubt Lewis and Max will be chasing me. But it’s a good place to start and hopefully the pace is good. Game on!
Lewis Hamilton
Valtteri did a great job this afternoon and it was a pretty poor final lap from me, but these things happen and you can’t always get it perfect. This circuit is unbelievable, it’s a classic with amazing history, and the speeds that we are going round it are pretty mind blowing; I’m so grateful to be here and to have the performance that we have, which is really remarkable. The tyres are working better here than they did in Portugal last weekend but it was still a real challenge out there today. For tomorrow, I’m pretty certain we will see quite a boring race, because the track is quite narrow and there’s nowhere you can really pass after the first chicane. So, it’s going to be a tough challenge when following, but hopefully the DRS will give us opportunities into the first braking zone. We saw Max was very strong on his race runs this morning, so he will be a threat, and I’m just going to give it everything I’ve got tomorrow and see where we get to.
Toto Wolff
That was a great qualifying session, once again coming down to the final lap of the final run. Last weekend in Portugal, Valtteri looked to have the upper hand through qualifying, then Lewis took the pole right at the end by a tenth; this time, Valtteri turned the tables and was able to claim pole. We’ve seen them both very close in qualifying at the last races, with the advantage swinging back and forth, and that’s exactly how it should be. For tomorrow, we decided to start on the Medium compound because the Soft didn’t look great on the long runs in practice. The only thing we’ll be telling the drivers is to go flat out and race each other hard – everything else they know and we’re looking forward to see how it plays out.
Andrew Shovlin
It’s great to be starting tomorrow with both cars on the front row and well done to Valtteri for a fine lap at the very end to put him on pole. We’ve enjoyed the two-day format so far. It’s simply not possible to do all the normal homework in the space of one and a half hours, so the session ends up a bit of a compromise of both low and high fuel work. A bit of a surprise for us in the morning session was just how poor the soft tyre was. If we’d known that we’d have done the same FP1 programme as Red Bull and Ferrari, and saved a set for qualifying. It took Valtteri a bit of time to get going in the morning, he damaged his first set of hard tyres with a flatspot which meant he was having to do the low fuel work on medium and soft tyres without many laps under his belt. Lewis had a tidier session, getting to grips with the track on the first run and by the time he was on low fuel he was putting in times that were faster than anyone. With such little running in practice, qualifying is always going to be a bit of a learning curve but our cars looked like we had a bit of margin to Red Bull throughout although it was nip and tuck between our two drivers with Valtteri just nudging it in front in the final moments. We’re not sure where we sit to Red Bull on pace for tomorrow, they looked about the same as us in the long runs this morning, but we’ll find out in the first stint when we see if we can build a gap.
M250049
4996x3331, 5MB
M250050
5324x3549, 7MB
M250051
5185x3457, 4MB
M250054
4963x3308, 4MB
M250056
4877x3251, 4MB
M250058
5472x3648, 4MB
M250064
4855x3237, 4MB
M250150
4676x3117, 4MB
M250154
4899x3266, 4MB
M250155
4273x2849, 4MB
M250234
5184x3456, 4MB
M250268
5184x3456, 4MB
M250272
5184x3456, 4MB
M250275
5184x3454, 3MB
M250285
5178x3452, 4MB
M250286
5178x3452, 4MB
M250355
4533x3022, 3MB
M250357
4587x3058, 4MB
M250358
5061x3374, 4MB
M250365
5272x3515, 4MB
M250378
5184x3456, 4MB
M250388
4984x3323, 5MB
M250391
5184x3454, 4MB
M250395
5115x3410, 4MB
Related news |
||
|
|
|
april 30, 2024
|
april 21, 2024
|
april 19, 2024
|
|
Stake F1 Team KICK Sauber returns to the Hard Rock Stadium and the Miami International Autodrome for what promises to be a thrilli... |
Fighting drives net double points finish in ShanghaiGeorge Russell finished P6 and Lewis Hamilton P9 in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Pri... |
Stake F1 Team KICK Sauber kept on top of changing conditions to record a double-SQ3 in the first Sprint Qualifying session of the ... |
Download all 
You might be interested in |
||
|
|
|
april 17, 2024
|
april 15, 2024
|
april 07, 2024
|
|
Daniel Ricciardo #3“Really looking forward to getting back to Shanghai. It's been five years since we raced there, so selfishly I ... |
Stake F1 Team KICK Sauber will make a welcome return to Shanghai, as the Chinese Grand Prix returns for the first time since 2019.... |
Stake F1 Team KICK Sauber C44 (Chassis 01/Ferrari)Race result: DNFFastest lap: 1:37.160 (Lap 9)Strategy & Pit Stops: Start (Ne... |
Italian 
Download all 
Share
Share via mail 
Automotive
Sport
Events
Art&Culture
Design
Fashion&Beauty
Food&Hospitality
Technology
Nautica
Racing
Excellence
Corporate
OffBeat
Green
Gift
Pop
Heritage
Entertainment
Health & Wellness