Mercedes took a giant leap forward, but for one Red Bull driver, it was very much a day to forget. AusGP 🇦🇺 F1
The qualifying session for the 2023 Australian Grand Prix is in the books, so here are the winners and losers of the event.
And yet it was George Russell and Mercedes who capitalised, securing P2 and P3, and suggesting that maybe, just maybe, the W14 is starting to find some pace.George Russell and Mercedes Such was the quality of Russell’s final lap that he came away disappointed it had not earned him pole, a sign of how much he and the team improved over the course of one weekend.
The qualifying session for the Australian Grand Prix was also not one of the easier poles in Verstappen’s career. At a circuit in which he had previously never started in P1, Verstappen had to battle traffic, threatening conditions and a soft tyre that took longer than expected to get in the zone but he duly did with effortless aplomb.
Realistically, Albon has little chance of moving up the grid so his difficult task for Sunday is to keep the Alpines behind him.Perez spoke on Friday of the need to have a good Saturday but the reality was anything but. In FP3, he locked up and slipped off the track on numerous occasions with the front right wheel in particular proving to be difficult for Perez to get a hold of.
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