The penultimate pole of the 2021 F1 World Championship is a show. The seven-time world champion: “He always qualifies to the limit. Congratulations to Max, without the mistake he would be first ”. The Dutchman: “I’m angry, I braked at the usual point”
“One of the most intense qualifying I can remember,” says Lewis Hamilton of pole in the Saudi Arabian F1 GP. Another dramatic chapter of a 2021 World Championship took place in Jeddah, which fully enters the Formula 1 legend. And in the post-qualifying words of the protagonists, you can perceive all the sporting suffering of these intense, excited, exciting hours.
the intensity of hamilton
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The seven-time world champion in the press conference continues to sweat, so much is the psychological strain that led to his pole number 103. “Big congratulations to everyone, it was one of the most intense qualifying I can remember,” says Hamilton. And in those compliments he also adds the opponent par excellence, Max Verstappen. Because then he adds: “Here we must always go to the limit, we play the World Championship and the track is beautiful, fun even if very treacherous. Max was good, honestly without that mistake he would be ahead of him, I know that the Red Bulls will be very fast in the race. It will be a battle but we are there, the goal is to win this race and the championship, and I have to say thanks again to Bottas, the best teammate I have ever had ”. Finally, on the penalty risk: “I don’t know what to say, I apologized to Mazepin for hindering him in FP3, I hadn’t seen him, and on the yellow flags, they simply weren’t there, I only saw a panel that turned white to little “.
verstappen’s error
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For his part, the great challenger but current leader of the World Championship will start third. Yet, yet … “I made a heavy mistake, I was doing a good qualifying but at least we know that there is a pace. Third place is disappointing but the car is fast, we’ll see the damage caused by the accident ”. Exactly, the accident. Which Max explains as follows: “I got to the last corner and braked at the same point as always, I don’t know, the wheel locked up. I am very angry, now I hope to have no damage and to be able to push in the race. Did I know of the advantage over Lewis? Well, yes, I knew that he had done a tenth better of my time and that I had about three tenths of an advantage on the last lap, then I don’t know, I braked where I was used to ”.
December 4th 2021 (change December 4th 2021 | 21:00)
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