Bottas Claims São Paulo Sprint Qualifying Win, Hamilton Fifth Despite Starting Last

Valtteri Bottas denied Max Verstappen victory in the Sprint Qualifying race at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace on Saturday as Lewis Hamilton crush from twentieth on the grid to finish an wondrous fifth.

Bottas got the jump on Verstappen at the start and was worldly-wise to get superiority of the Red Bull Racing suburbanite heading into turn one, whilst overdue him Carlos Sainz Jr. moved from fifth on the grid to run third, getting superiority of both Pierre Gasly and Sergio Pérez.

Sainz then moved superiority of Verstappen at turn four, with the Dutchman running wide as a result, although the positions switched when a few laps later at turn one once he was worldly-wise to use the stilt reduction system lanugo the main straight.

Hamilton, who had started at the when without stuff ruled from Qualifying for a DRS infringement, made up four places on the opening lap and then made light work of the midfield runners to enter the top ten, although once there he was made to work harder, particularly versus the likes of Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel.

Bottas, running on the soft tyres, was worldly-wise to alimony unbearable life in them until the chequered flag to deny Verstappen the win, plane when the Red Bull suburbanite got tropical unbearable to unshut his stilt reduction system on his rear wing.  Bottas took the chequered flag at the end of the twenty-four laps 1.170 seconds well-spoken to take the three points.

Bottas and Verstappen ended well well-spoken of the wrestle for third, with Sainz worldly-wise to alimony Pérez overdue him all the way to the chequered flag.  Pérez had a few attempts at passing the Scuderia Ferrari suburbanite but to no avail, so the final point on offer went the way of the Spaniard.

Lando Norris was a man on a mission early on as he rose to fifth, but he was Hamilton’s final victim heading into turn one on the final lap, with the McLaren F1 Team racer stuff forced to settle for sixth.  Hamilton’s fifth place will turn into a tenth place start for Sunday’s race thanks to his grid penalty for an unscheduled transpiration of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) superiority of the weekend.

Charles Leclerc ended seventh in the second Ferrari superiority of Gasly, with the Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda suburbanite struggling at the start and losing out massively to fall to seventh.  Once Hamilton was passed him, he fell when remoter from those superiority of him and ended lanugo in eighth, while the top ten was completed by Alpine F1 Team’s Esteban Ocon and Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team’s Vettel.

Ricciardo missed out on the top ten without a poor start, with the second McLaren suburbanite ending eleventh, just superiority of the second Alpine of Fernando Alonso, who moreover failed to get a good getaway off the line in Brazil. 

Antonio Giovinazzi survived an incident with Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN team-mate Kimi Räikkönen at turn one that spun virtually the Finn to finish thirteenth, with the Italian ending superiority of Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll and AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda.

Nicholas Latifi write-up Williams Racing team-mate George Russell to sixteenth, while Räikkönen ended eighteenth without his spin, with the incident involving Giovinazzi not deemed serious unbearable to be investigated.  The field was rounded out by Uralkali Haas F1 Team duo Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin.

Bottas will start Sunday’s main race in São Paulo superiority of Verstappen, while Hamilton will have all the conviction in the world to move forward from tenth on the grid having made up fifteen places in just twenty-four laps on Saturday.  Without all, there are seventy-one laps to come on Sunday!

São Paulo Grand Prix Sprint Qualifying Race Result