00:02Oh dear that brakes on fire for Alex Albon. That'll be a red flag I would
00:07suspect for the amount of debris that's on the track. Holy **** I just lost a brake pedal.
00:12You just see here Croft you see something kind of long comes out there you go. Yes a bit of
00:17tubing isn't it. Yeah that's not how you see you like to see Formula One cars. And that's
00:22going to be the second time in two races Alex Albon starts from the back of the grid. Valtteri Bottas
00:28on board now with him as he makes his way down this main straight. Bottas crosses the line goes
00:34ninth fastest. Mick Schumacher, Vettel, Ocon, Latifi and Albon are the bottom five. Ocon and Albon
00:40definitely out of qualifying as Mick Schumacher goes tenth fastest for Haas. And that pushes
00:45Hamilton now down into the bottom five as Sebastian Vettel goes eighth fastest for Aston Martin. His
00:50teammate Lance Stroll goes eighth fastest as well. There's personal best being set everywhere on the
00:55track by those that are pushing hard. And now Perez goes fifth fastest. We're on board with Lewis
01:01Hamilton and Hamilton 14th right on the cusp. Who's behind him? Russell and Latifi. They could go
01:07fastest. Latifi takes the flag only 18th fastest. Russell goes 12th fastest. Lewis Hamilton does get
01:13through but by the skin of his teeth. And what a disappointment in their home race for the Alpha Tauri
01:21pair of Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly. Sainz, meanwhile, has the line in sight. It's a 1.18.9. So
01:30we dive straight into the 1.18s with Carlos Sainz. Mick Schumacher, who has never made Q3 in his
01:38Formula One career along with Joe Guan Yu. He's also out there on the track at the moment. Puts himself
01:44very handily. Third fastest. Make that fourth fastest because Sebastian Vettel has never reached Q3 at
01:49and has gone faster and faster. Verstappen's on a very good lap here. He's managed to go purple sector
01:54one, purple sector two, but the Ferrari can't get within half a second in the first sector.
01:59And keep pushing, keep pushing. Schurain come in two minutes. Keep pushing.
02:03So they're all fueled up for more than one lap. A 1.18.7 for Max Verstappen. He goes quickest
02:08overall.
02:09George Russell into the top ten with a 120.7. His teammate Lewis Hamilton struggling again.
02:151.21.1. Only 13th fastest. Ricciardo pushes Russell out of the top ten.
02:20Sainz. Carlos Sainz. Carlos Sainz.
02:23Rivazza too. Oh, he's in the wall. And he's in the wall.
02:25And you can see the Ferrari stuck there and has gone quite hard into the wall.
02:31That is a red flag. And if the rain is coming, that is bad news for anybody outside of the
02:39top ten.
02:41Oh, he's just lost the rear, hasn't he? Yeah.
02:45I mean, he's not done anything massively wrong, but just wasn't necessary when he was in the position he was.
02:52He's going to definitely not sleep well tonight.
02:56And it is not since the Japanese Grand Prix in 2012 that Mercedes have failed to reach Q3.
03:03But the rain's now coming down here, and I get the feeling that streak is going to end.
03:09George Russell now gets out of his Mercedes.
03:12Checker flag is now flying, so they thought no point sending either George or Lewis out.
03:16And to be fair, Lance Stroll and Mick Schumacher and Joe Guanyu also not coming out.
03:25Yellow flag in Sector 2, Magnussen. He's dropped it just where he's into the tyres.
03:31Oh, that could be a red flag as well.
03:32Well, if he's got the engine still running and can reverse out of there.
03:36Yeah, it is a red flag. I was going to say, if he's got the engine still running and reverse
03:39out, shouldn't be too bad.
03:41On you go, Kevin. Don't drop the wheels too far in the gravel.
03:43Well, I wonder, can he still continue if he gets the car back, if he's caused the red flag?
03:47I can't think he can.
03:48Well, if he can get back to the pits and it's not damaged, he should be able to.
03:54On the white line?
03:55Yeah.
03:55Just not there, is it?
03:56You've got to stay off the white lines in the dry era, right?
04:00Oh, look, he managed to get off the brake, put a little bit of throttle in when he was in
04:03the gravel.
04:04Very quick thinking, and that's what saved him.
04:06Look, he spun the rears up, then stopped it.
04:08Then he's been able to do that kind of three-point turn and get going again.
04:13Max Verstappen, 28.3 for the first sector, has just gone fastest overall at the start of the lap.
04:20Is Verstappen going to leave the best till last in this session?
04:23Five and a half minutes to go.
04:24Kevin Magnussen, 1.30, 0.35, fastest time so far.
04:29Next to cross the line, Valtteri Bottas goes second fastest.
04:33Dolonso after that mistake we saw at Aquaminerale, only third fastest.
04:37Lando Norris now goes quickest into the 1.29s.
04:40But behind him, Charles Leclerc has gone quickest through the middle sector.
04:44And Max Verstappen has pretty much matched Leclerc through that middle part of the lap.
04:48He's half a second up through the first sector as Sebastian Vettel goes fourth fastest, ahead of Sergio Perez and
04:55Daniel Ricciardo.
04:56Now goes quickest overall.
04:58Crofty, you're a pro, absolute pro.
05:00There's Leclerc staying away from the curbs as well as he crosses the line.
05:03He's definitely going to go to the top.
05:04It's just what Max Verstappen can do.
05:06Yeah, we're into the 1.28s now.
05:081.28.7 for Charles Leclerc.
05:11Verstappen goes second fastest and separated by two one-hundredths of a second.
05:19Max Verstappen has just done a 29.7.
05:22While Charles Leclerc has done a poor middle sector on his latest lap.
05:27I think there was an Alfa Romeo just on the right-hand side there.
05:30Heading down into Ravatsa.
05:32So Max Verstappen had to back out of that.
05:34That was going to be good enough for Paul Leclerc had already pulled out of that.
05:37So, and that is bad news for Max Verstappen.
05:40There is, I think Valtteri Bottas, the car is going to be stuck there for a while.
05:45But Verstappen does go fastest overall.
05:471.27.9, but definitely backed off in that part of the lap.
05:50That's not in question because I heard on Lyft when we were on board as well.
05:53And I told you Valtteri Bottas is going to be stranded there and is getting out of the car.
05:58Red flag again.
06:00Valtteri Bottas getting out of his car and stopping.
06:05And here at Imola, the track that he's been third on the grid at the last two years,
06:10he is hoping as Lando Norris has a moment at Aqua Minerale.
06:15Verstappen is hoping he can hold on to Paul and that is going to be another red flag.
06:19It looks to me like Norris has stopped.
06:22I'm out.
06:23And has gone in a lot harder into the barriers and that is a red flag and that is the
06:28end of qualifying.
06:30It won't resume now and they know the job's done and the driver.
06:34The reigning champion in the rain here at Imola knows the job is done too.
06:40Charles Leclerc lines up alongside him on the front row of the grid for the sprint on Saturday.
06:46What a start that'll be.
06:48Lando Norris who ends up in the barrier will start P3 for the sprint.
06:53Kevin Magnusson did make it to the second row.
06:55F
06:56M
07:02Lando Norris
07:03Lando Norris
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