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Leclerc beats Verstappen to claim French GP pole position

by Phillip Horton
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Leclerc beats Verstappen to claim French GP pole position

Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari F1-75. French Grand Prix, Saturday 23rd July 2022. Paul Ricard, France.

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Charles Leclerc beat Max Verstappen to pole position for Formula 1’s French Grand Prix during a strategic denouement to qualifying at Paul Ricard.

Leclerc was assisted during Q3 by Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz, facing a back-of-the-grid penalty, who offered the Monegasque a slipstream through the second sector on his push laps.

Leclerc edged Verstappen by just 0.008s through the first Q3 runs before the Ferrari driver found substantial gains on his second run.

Leclerc’s pole time of 1:30.872s left him 0.304s faster than Verstappen, who also improved on his second effort, to claim his seventh pole of the season.

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Sergio Perez wound up third for Red Bull but was never realistically in contention for pole position.

Mercedes was a subdued fourth and sixth, Lewis Hamilton ahead of George Russell, with the seven-time champion nine-tenths away from the pole fight.

They were split by McLaren driver Lando Norris.

Fernando Alonso was seventh for Alpine while Yuki Tsunoda was eighth for AlphaTauri.

Sainz notionally qualified in ninth spot but will drop to the back of the grid on Sunday, as will Haas’ Kevin Magnussen, who made it through to Q3 but also faces an engine sanction.

Daniel Ricciardo fell out in Q2 but due to penalties for Sainz and Magnussen will move up to ninth on the grid.

Esteban Ocon was a low-key 12th for Alpine while Valtteri Bottas was 13th for Alfa Romeo, ahead of Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel.

Alexander Albon spun in Q1 but scraped through to the second segment, in which he was the slowest of the 15 participants, albeit just a few hundredths behind Vettel.

Pierre Gasly suffered a Q1 exit on home turf as he slumped to 16th spot, while Lance Stroll set the same time and wound up in 17th position.

Zhou Guanyu had a wild moment through Turn 6 on his final push lap and was left only 18th while Mick Schumacher set a time good enough for Q2 but it was deleted for track limits after he went too tight at Turn 3.

That deletion shuffled Schumacher down to 19th place, ahead only of Nicholas Latifi, who was unable to carry forward his promising pace from final practice.

Sunday’s 53-lap French Grand Prix is scheduled for 15:00 local time

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