00:03Now, Sebastian Vettel did not like that.
00:06What a f***! I mean, seriously, what a f***!
00:12Only 18th fastest for Kimi, he's knocked out in Q1 once again.
00:16Next to cross the line, Charles Leclerc, told you how pace.
00:18He's gone fastest overall by two tenths to Max Verstappen.
00:22Don't discount Leclerc out of the final shake-up here.
00:24Latifi goes out of the bottom five, but only just.
00:27Esteban Ocon might be able to replace Latifi and leapfrog the Williams.
00:32One more corner to go.
00:33Has he got pace to get himself out of the bottom five?
00:37Crosses the line, he does.
00:38Pushes Latifi back down into that bottom five.
00:41He's 13th.
00:42Next to cross the line, Fernando Alonso pushes Lance Stroll down into the bottom five.
00:47Joe Manazzi very much at risk.
00:48Sebastian Vettel will be next to cross the line.
00:50Nikita Mazepin needs to get a time on the board, and Mick Schumacher's trying hard too.
00:54Vettel goes tenth fastest.
00:56Next, we look to see Mazepin crossing the line stays slowest of all the 20 drivers.
01:02Mick Schumacher next to cross the line.
01:04Can he go any faster?
01:05No, he can't.
01:06Only 19th fastest for Mick Schumacher.
01:09And looking at Lance Stroll, no, he's out of qualifying along with Latifi, Raikkonen, Schumacher and Mazepin.
01:15Antonio Giovinazzi just ruining a little mistake that he made at the top of the hill.
01:20Coming down, he was out for a spin, but he's through into the second part of qualifying.
01:27Ricciardo, round the final corner he comes now.
01:29Be it the first time on the board for him in this session.
01:32Only ninth fastest pushes Yuki Tsunoda down into 11th.
01:36Tsunoda was in Q3 in Turkey for the first time in eight races.
01:40He's got to go faster now.
01:41Giovinazzi is out, only 12th fastest for him.
01:44Fernando Alonso, he's going to go to the back of the grid, but he'd like to get into the top
01:47ten if he can.
01:48And he will cross the line now, only 13th fastest, with his teammate Esteban Ocon, 10th.
01:54Tsunoda has the chance then to knock the other Alpine out of Q3, and that looked nice.
02:00Coming round, turn 19.
02:02One more corner to go, sunk very much in the driver's eyes.
02:05As they turn left-handed and crosses the line, goes ahead of Esteban Ocon.
02:09And for the second race running so far, Yuki Tsunoda is into Q3.
02:13But can Sebastian Fettel or George Russell do something about that?
02:15Big sigh of relief for Ricciardo, with the drivers out there on the red mark, soft tyres.
02:20He's still up in P9.
02:22Really, his main concern behind him now, as you point out, is Sebastian Fettel.
02:27But it looks like Ricciardo should get through to the shootout, and does.
02:31Sebastian Fettel, 12th fastest, two-time former pole-sitter here at the Circuit of the Americas.
02:36Only 12th on the grid.
02:37Not the best day for Aston Martin, with strolled in the bottom five in Q1.
02:41And George Russell goes 13th fastest.
02:43Both him and Sebastian Fettel will be going to the back of the grid with Fernando Alonso.
02:49And Russell's 35.73 is going to be deleted.
02:53He drops down to 15th with no time.
02:58And now he'll just swing through here, line of least resistance.
03:02Cascade down that hill one more time, into 19.
03:06Get, throw the nose in.
03:08He's got plenty of space in hand there on track limits.
03:10Turn in late for the final corner.
03:12Front drifting a little bit wide again.
03:15Stay right, you're quickly towards the line at 33.5 on the soft.
03:19That is not especially quick.
03:21His teammate Valtteri Bottas was about a tenth away.
03:25And crosses the line through the second sector.
03:27Crosses the line, and nearly a tenth of a second up.
03:30Bottas, and was on pole last time he came here to Austin.
03:32Has provisional pole at the moment.
03:34Lando Norris goes third fastest as he crosses the line.
03:37As Carlos Sainz goes third fastest.
03:39And he's still got time to do something about it.
03:41Verstappen in the final sector.
03:43Ricciardo is ahead of Norris.
03:44Gasly ahead of Tsunoda.
03:46Leclerc, behind his teammate, goes fourth fastest.
03:49Verstappen crosses the line.
03:50And by nearly three tenths of a second, Verstappen, you can hear the cheers.
03:55And certainly from the big Red Bull grandstand at the top of turn one,
03:58goes on provisional pole.
04:00But guess what?
04:00His teammate Sergio Perez gets an even bigger round of applause
04:04to snatch provisional pole from Max by nearly two hundredths of a second.
04:09That wasn't in the playbook, surely.
04:11Great, great lap.
04:13Perez has been on it since the get-go here, hasn't he?
04:16He just, he's in the groove, he's dialed in, and how about that?
04:22Perez, the man on provisional pole, starting his final lap right now.
04:26Very good middle sector.
04:27Yeah, for Lewis Hamilton.
04:29Oh, and then the car still moving around a little bit there.
04:32He takes a slightly wider line through 16, 17 and 18 that's coming up,
04:37does Lewis Hamilton than Max Verstappen.
04:40Max already cuts this fine, this corner, maybe nips the car up a little bit.
04:44But Hamilton then has found good time in the middle sector.
04:48Bottas will cross the line now, stays third fastest.
04:52Lewis Hamilton to cross the line to try and get provisional pole back again,
04:56and he does so by six one-hundredths of a second.
04:59Hamilton gets the cheers from the crowd now.
05:02He's on provisional pole, but Verstappen has absolutely aced the first sector.
05:07This is not over yet.
05:08And Perez, only a few hundredths off his teammates, as he currently is on the front row.
05:13Norris goes sixth fastest.
05:15And rain in the pit lane, we're hearing.
05:16Just gentle rain, the beginning of it, in the pit lane.
05:19So it should be okay to finish the lap in the dry,
05:23unless the wind blows those clouds over to where we are now.
05:27Another good middle sector for Verstappen.
05:29He's right on the pace.
05:30Yeah, a little bit wide, though, through 14 there.
05:33But let's see what he's got.
05:35Let's see if he gets any rain on his visor through these last few corners.
05:38This is the tighter line he takes.
05:40This is going to be so close.
05:42Leclerc goes ahead of his teammate Carlos Sainz.
05:44Ricciardo has out-qualified Lando Norris.
05:46Gasly ahead of Tsunoda, who's tenth.
05:48Now Verstappen has seven poles in the last ten races.
05:53Verstappen's back on provisional pole here in Austin.
05:55We're into the 1.32s with Red Bull.
05:58Can Perez get pole?
05:59Oh, he can't get pole.
06:01It was there for him.
06:03But Verstappen has snatched that pole position out of Sergio Perez's hands.
06:08And Red Bull, who had a front row lockout, now a one and three,
06:12because the two championship protagonists, Verstappen and Hamilton,
06:16for the seventh time this season, lock out the front row between them.
06:19And that is why they are the championship protagonists.
06:23When they need to, they can pull out something a bit special,
06:27find that quarter of a second and not throw it off the road.
06:31That was sensational driving all round.
06:33I'm all in.
06:35I need to know that we would force a whole new angle off creation,
06:38but think to go in to the end zone as soon as being equipped.
06:39I know you can now the distance a three point.
06:39For the first point,
06:41in manyitions to
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