Although both advanced to Q2, it's not hard to see Red Bull in a frantic situation.
In Q2, even after the start, rcedes was still showing strong speed, with Qin Miao and Hamilton once again working together to advance in first and second positions.
However, the team didn't show any signs of happiness despite the impressive performance in Q2, as this was just an appetizer before the race.
The only thing worth ntioning is that after the Q2 clock stopped, Hamilton was nearly 0.3 seconds faster than his teammate Qin Miao.
He was 0.4 seconds faster than Verstappen.
This shows that Hamilton indeed has a certain ho advantage here in Brazil.
The situation in Q3 was similar to Q2, with both Qin Miao and Hamilton placing first and second in the first lap of Q3.
However, just before the end of Q3, when the clock was about to stop, Verstappen showcased his terrifying talent.
In the final lap, he snatched second from Qin Miao's hands by a margin of 0.009 seconds.
And the first place was still Hamilton's.
After the final qualifying session, the top ten drivers for Saturday's sprint qualifying were as follows:
1: Hamilton
2: Verstappen
3: Qin Miao
4: Perez
5: Gasly
6: Sainz
7: Leclerc
8: Norris
9: Ricardo
10: Alonso
The top four drivers were basically from rcedes and Red Bull, which fans had already gotten used to.
Gasly is worth ntioning.
Despite driving a Toro Rosso car, Gasly demonstrated terrifying speed that doesn't belong to Toro Rosso, whether it was last week in xico or now in Brazil. Gasly's Toro Rosso has always been in between the Mars group and the Earth group.
One can only wonder what Yuki Tsunoda feels seeing such a gap.
Poor performance is not scary, what's scary is when your poor performance is outshone by a teammate...
However, Lord Ken still has a reason to brush it off this year.
After all, this is just Yuki Tsunoda's first year in F1, and it's understandable if he's not in sync with his teammate's rhythm.
What? Are you talking about Qin Miao?
This level of genius is sothing only one out of Chinese billions has, so there's no comparison with such a monster.
Just as the qualifying clock stopped and Ricardo completed his last lap, everyone thought the qualifying would end like this when a surprising event occurred on the track.
The top three drivers, after the qualifying ended, drove their cars back to the pit area and parked them in their designated spots.
According to the normal procedure, these three drivers were supposed to get off their cars, collect themselves, and prepare for post-race interviews.
But Verstappen, after getting off his car, didn't go for the post-race interview imdiately.
After getting out of his car, Verstappen looked at his car, glanced at Hamilton's car behind him, and paid special attention to Hamilton's car's rear wing.
Then Verstappen strolled to the rear wing position of his car, removed his gloves, and used his fingers to roughly asure a gap under his car's rear wing.
After getting a rough angle, Verstappen directly walked to the rear of Hamilton's car and asured the sa position on Hamilton's car's rear wing.
Perhaps feeling he didn't get it right the first ti, or maybe he didn't get the answer he wanted, Verstappen adjusted his hand position.
But it seed like this adjustnt still didn't give Verstappen the data he wanted.
It's crucial to know that, at this ti, the race just concluded, and all cars are in a waiting-for-inspection phase.
During this phase, besides FIA staff, other unrelated individuals are not allowed to touch any movable components on the cars.
Even though Verstappen's actions of touching Hamilton's car weren't imdiately stopped, this scene definitely reached the FIA stewards. If nothing unexpected happens, Verstappen will surely be penalized.
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