Brendon Hartley will start from the back of the grid for tonight’s Spanish Formula One Grand Prix after crashing heavily in the third practice session. The Scuderia Toro Rosso team were not able to fix the car in time with Hartley not able to take part in qualifying.
“It was quite a big impact,” exclaimed Hartley! “We normally run a bit of kerb on the entry to Turn 9, but I took one or two centimetres too much and I just clipped the dirt area which flipped the car around pretty quick.
“The car was feeling good this morning, I didn’t have a clean run at the end of the session, so the lap time didn’t show the true pace we had. I’ll try and stay positive.
“I’ll have a good sleep and come back tomorrow fresh, anything is possible. I know the team started from the back of the grid last year and scored points, so that has to be the goal for tomorrow.”
Meanwhile team mate Pierre Hasly made it through to Q2 qualifying in 12th position. “I’m pretty happy to make it to Q2 and qualify P12,” commented Gasly. “We’ve got some performance back which was important after the last two weekends in China and Baku, so I think there’s positives to take from today.”
Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position just ahead of Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas to top spot by four-hundredths of a second.
Qualifying results
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m16.173s –
2 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 1m16.213s 0.040s
3 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m16.305s 0.132s
4 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m16.612s 0.439s
5 Max Verstappen Red Bull/Renault 1m16.816s 0.643s
6 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull/Renault 1m16.818s 0.645s
7 Kevin Magnussen Haas/Ferrari 1m17.676s 1.503s
8 Fernando Alonso McLaren/Renault 1m17.721s 1.548s
9 Carlos Sainz Renault 1m17.790s 1.617s
10 Romain Grosjean Haas/Ferrari 1m17.835s 1.662s
11 Stoffel Vandoorne McLaren/Renault 1m18.323s 2.150s
12 Pierre Gasly Toro Rosso/Honda 1m18.463s 2.290s
13 Esteban Ocon Force India/Mercedes 1m18.696s 2.523s
14 Charles Leclerc Sauber/Ferrari 1m18.910s 2.737s
15 Sergio Perez Force India/Mercedes 1m19.098s 2.925s
16 Nico Hulkenberg Renault 1m18.923s 2.750s
17 Marcus Ericsson Sauber/Ferrari 1m19.493s 3.320s
18 Lance Stroll Williams/Mercedes 1m20.225s 4.052s
19 Sergey Sirotkin Williams/Mercedes 1m19.695s 3.522s
20 Brendon Hartley Toro Rosso/Honda – –
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