carlos sainz signed his third pole position of the season and this market will open United States Grand Prix, the nineteenth appointment of the 2022 calendar, taking place at the Americas Circuit in Austin. The Ferrari driver won his prize in a very balanced fight with his opponent. Leclerc Y Verstappen and this Sunday (9:00 pm) he will start looking for his second victory in F1. The brand new world champion, less than a tenth of Carlos, Finished third but will start second due to Leclerc’s suspension replacing the internal combustion engine and turbo ferrari.

The already anticipated pulse from the third free practice this afternoon continued from the first bars of the time trial with Max Verstappen’s tough challenge. Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. Sunday’s punishment will be very painful Sergio Perez as (5 positions) Leclerc (10), left sainz Y Verstappen competing for the pole. And Madrid man appeared willing to mark ‘zone’Red Bull beat the champion’s best time in Q1 for the best time of the weekend (1.35.297). Leclerc already 4 of them Max. to almost half a second.

The first sieve First two surprises as Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren) and Esteban Ocon (Alpine) are eliminated earlyin addition to the two Haas Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher and Williams Nicholas Latif. Fernando Alonso The driver, who received a five-row penalty for changing the internal combustion engine of his car this weekend, advanced to the next lap with a seventh record without any problems.

Three-way fight again in the second quarter and this time Leclerc was the fastest (1.35.246), Verstappen was only 48,000 and Sainz was third at 3 tenths. from your partner. alonso He continued to push to re-secure his place in Q3 and had a good lap in seventh position. Chinese zhouThe athlete, who entered the pole fight, saw that his fastest lap was canceled because he exceeded the track limits and Norris ‘extremist’ rescued, Avoiding a complete disaster for McLaren as the Brits play with Alpine for fourth place between the teams. Anyone albon (Williams), Vettel (Aston-Martin), gaseous Y in the tsuno (Alpha Tauri) was able to continue on his way.

Alonso and Pérez and Leclerc, the protagonists of the third quarter, objected to the final screening, knowing that the relevant sanction should be excluded from the final results. on the grid, although they are willing to minimize their disadvantages on a track where overtaking is possible.

Verstappen, who won his second mathematical world title two weeks ago in Japan He raced in Formula 1 and took pole position in Austin last year, making a practice lap before his final try in the last minute of a session marked by extreme equality between the favourites. It wasn’t enough and he was overtaken by a packed Sainz on his final lap.

United States GP. classification:

1º C. Sainz (Ferrari) 1’34″356

2. C. Leclerc (Ferrari) 1’34″421

3. M. Verstappen (Red Bull) 1’34″448

4. S. Perez (Red Bull) 1’34″645

5. L. Hamilton (Mercedes) 1’34″947

6. G. Russell (Mercedes) 1’34″988

7. L. Walk (Aston Martin) 1’35″598

8. L. Norris (McLaren) 1’35″690

9. F. Alonso (Alp) 1’35″876

10. V. Bottas (Alfa Romeo) 1’36″319

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11. Alexander Albon (Williams) 1’36″368

12. Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin) 1’36″398

13. Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) 1’36″740

14. Guanyu Zhou (Alfa Romeo) 1’36″970

15. Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri) 1’37″147

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16. Kevin Magnussen (Haas) 1’36″949

17. Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren) 1’37″046

18. Esteban Ocon (Alp) 1’37″068

19. Mick Schumacher (Haas) 1’37″111

20. Nicholas Latifi (Williams) 1’37″244