Winners and losers from French Grand Prix qualifying

Date published:2022年7月23日-Finley Crebolder

查尔斯·莱克莱克(Charles Leclerc), Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez at the French GP qualifying press conference. Paul Ricard July 2022.

一级方程式赛车中,三名司机被认为是三名最快的男子,他们在获得法国大奖赛的资格中辜负了他们的声誉。

Here is who we think were the big winners and losers on Saturday at Paul Ricard.

Winners

查尔斯·莱克莱克(Charles Leclerc)

With Leclerc essentially on his own against the two Red Bulls in the race due to Carlos Sainz’s grid penalty, the Ferrari driver desperately needed to start on pole – andthanks to a vintage Saturday performance, 他会的。

他有冠军对手Max Verstappen从头到尾从排位赛开始,第二季度的十分之一速度快八分之一,第三季度的十分之一速度更快。在一个小时的课程中,他似乎不会在周日的P1开始。

现在,他拥有与荷兰人一样多的职业杆,如果他能将这一胜利转变为胜利,那么今年年底也将处于更强大的位置,可以在冠军头衔上赢得水平。

刘易斯·汉密尔顿

After a slow start to the season that made many feel he would end up playing second fiddle to George Russell all year, Hamilton is now firmly proving that will not be the case.

While Russell struggled in Q3, being beaten byLando Norris‘七届前世界冠军迈克拉伦(McLaren)从他的梅赛德斯(Mercedes)中获得了一切,比队友快四分之一。

Given the younger of the two is widely considered to be one of the best qualifiers around, that is seriously impressive. Hamilton may not have as fast a car as he usually has in recent years, but the man himself is as quick as ever.

Lando Norris

Hamilton was not the only Briton to impress on the other side of the Channel in qualifying, with Norris arguably the driver of the day.

在他获得P5的强大Q1之后,迈凯轮司机在第二季度挣扎,仅在前十名中才能完成,但在最重要的时候再次活着,尽管汽车的速度较慢,但​​在前五名中击败了Russell进入前五名比他。

更重要的是,他最快的圈速比队友丹尼尔·里卡多(Daniel Ricciardo)快了几乎第二。在此问题上,他继续以比澳大利亚和大多数其他驱动程序高得多的水平运作。就彻底的步伐而言,他巩固自己是最好的之一。

Losers

Haas

With Kevin Magnussen taking a grid penalty and thus starting from the back of the grid, Haas neededMick Schumacher在比赛当天获得资格赛,让他们有一个仍在得分的机会的机会 - 但他不能这样做。

He struggled in practice, being far slower than Magnussen in FP2 and FP3, and that remained the case in qualifying. While the Dane made it comfortably to Q3, the German could not make it out of Q1 after exceeding track limits on his final flying lap.

As a result, both drivers will start at the back of the field. They will take some encouragement from how quick Magnussen looked on Saturday but even so, it looks unlikely they will add any points to their tally.

皮埃尔·加西(Pierre Gasly)

按照他去年的出色表现为自己设定的崇高标准,Gasly在2022年的竞选活动中取得了令人失望的开局,这仍然是家庭草皮的情况。

While the other AlphaTauri driven byYuki Tsunodasecured a P8 start, the Frenchman, usually so impressive on Saturdays, was knocked out in Q1 and now faces an uphill battle to score points in the race.

他进入了本赛季,是Alphatauri无可争议的团队负责人,但由于他的队友稳步缩小差距,这种地位越来越不稳定。

Daniel Ricciardo

如果有的话,很少有驾驶员像里卡多一样被队友统治的队友所统治,而保罗·里卡德(Paul Ricard)仍然如此。

As has so often been the case since he joined McLaren last year, the Aussie has been comfortably slower than Lando Norris all weekend, finishing behind his team-mate in every practice session before qualifying in P11 while the Briton took P5.

He will at least start two places higher up due to grid penalties for drivers ahead of him, but that does not undo any of the damage that his qualifying performances are currently doing to his reputation among fans and, more importantly, his own team.

阿尔法·罗密欧(Alfa Romeo)

At some points this season, the Alfa Romeo has been at the very top of the midfield in terms of pace, but at Paul Ricard in qualifying it was closer to the backmarkers.

Zhou Guanyu did not get close to making it out of Q1 after a mistake on his final lap and while Valterri Bottas did progress to Q2 he could not go any further, finishing faster than only two drivers in that session, a Williams and an Aston Martin, and behind all of his championship rivals.

阿尔法罗密欧的排名在P6看起来safe for the time being with Haas having such a bad day, but the team do not look anywhere near fast enough to challenge Alpine and McLaren and climb any higher.