Lewis Hamilton had to settle for second as Mercedes secured a front-row lockout of the grid. The Observer Formula One 2019. Piloting the A380 was Captain Patrick De Roeck supported by First Officers, Abdulla Alyammahi, and Sergio Puchol.Emirates has been an F1 Global Partner since 2013, and during last year’s Spanish Grand Prix the partnership was renewed until the end of 2022. And can Lewis Hamilton get back on terms with his increasingly impressive team mate?
A fifth seems highly likely. Go onboard with Valtteri Bottas in Barcelona, as he storms to a third consecutive Pirelli The six-time world champion has been in ominous form this weekend and he … He expected more and would have anticipated being far closer to his teammate. “I couldn’t go quicker on my second lap but the first one was decent which did the job.“I was here with the guys until 10pm (on Friday night) looking at all the details we could improve on because these Red Bulls are super fast.“There is such a long way down to turn one so the job is not done. As he tried to correct a slide, his R.S.19 pushed through the gravel and nerfed the barriers, the soft impact still enough to take off the Germanâs front wing.As Hulkenberg made his way slowly back to the pits, he was forced to avoid the spinning Williams of George Russell, who was pushing hard despite the five-place grid penalty he received after Hulkenbergâs incident left him on the back foot and saw him fail to make it out of Q1 for the second time this year â despite finishing just 0.019s behind 15th placed team mate Daniel Ricciardo â while Russell recovered to end the segment in a pre-penalty P19.Out with that pair went the Alfa Romeo of Antonio Giovinazzi, whose team mate Kimi Raikkonen made it through to Q2 in P13, the Racing Point of Lance Stroll â out in Q1 for the ninth consecutive weekend â and the second Williams of Robert Kubica, who was slowest of all.The first segment, meanwhile, saw Lando Norris finish an impressive P6, a mere 0.632s back from Valtteri Bottasâ Q1-leading time, with the Haas of Kevin Magnussen close at hand too.As the teams began to turn their wicks up, first Lewis Hamilton then Valtteri Bottas established new track records for the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Bottas ending the segment P1 having posted a 1m 15.924s lap â over seven-tenths faster than Sebastian Vettel could manage in the leading Ferrari in P3.And while it may have looked a slightly doubtful statement yesterday, Daniel Ricciardo made good on his belief that he could make it through the Q3, ending the second segment in 10th place in the sole remaining Renault, as the Haas of Romain Grosjean led the midfield challenge in P7.Valtteri Bottas has looked a man on a mission all through the Spanish Grand Prix weekend â and as the Finn stopped the clocks on a 1m 15.
The Haas cars of Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen were in seventh and eighth, with the Toro Rosso of Daniil Kvyat in ninth.Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo was in 10th place but will take a three-place grid penalty for causing a collision in Baku.
Emirates A380 takes “pole” position at Spanish Grand Prix
He has been given stern warning that Bottas is increasingly looking like his main rival this season and that the Finn is showing no sign of quietly succumbing to the five-time world champion.The difference between the two was a scruffy lap by Hamilton when the track conditions were best on their penultimate runs. The polesitter is the driver that has qualified for a Grand Prix in pole position, ... Out of the 1,024 completed Grands Prix (as of the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix), the driver that has qualified on pole position has gone on to win the race 430 times. He has outscored Hamilton over the single lap now by three to one and, of the two in qualifying, appears the more comfortable with the car.The pair have two wins apiece and have secured four consecutive one-two finishes for Mercedes. Hamilton will be in no mood to grant any quarter to his teammate, but this new Bottas looks equally determined and it is the Finn who starts with his nose in front in Barcelona.Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly was in sixth. Lance Stroll in the Racing Point was in 17th in front of the Sauber of Antonio Giovinazzi.• Bottas puts in commanding lap to deny Mercedes teammateMercedes’ Valtteri Bottas celebrates pole position in Spanish Grand Prix qualifying in Barcelona.