The Spaniard Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) will start first this Sunday at the British Grand Prix, the tenth of the Formula One World Championship, which takes place at the Silverstone circuit (England), where his compatriot Fernando Alonso (Alpine) will start seventh and Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), fourth.
Sainz, from years, signed the first ‘pole’ of his F1 career by dominating the rainy qualifying this Saturday, in which, on his best lap , covered, with the intermediate tire, the 5.891 meters of the legendary English track in one minute, 40 seconds and 983 thousandths, 72 less than the Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull) , leader of the World Cup, who will start alongside him on the front row in a race in which their teammates, the Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) and ‘Checo’ Pérez, fourth in the main timed, will n from second.
Alonso will start seventh, from the fourth row, next to the English George Russell (Mercedes) -eighth this Saturday- and behind two of his compatriots, his partner the seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton -fifth- and Lando Norris (McLaren), who will face the test from the third row.
From the fifth will be the Chinese Guanyu Zhou (Alfa Romeo) and the Canadian Nicholas Latifi (Williams), who for the first time in his career in F1 reached the third round (Q3) of the qualification.
The tenth race of the World Championship is scheduled for 52 laps, to complete a course of 306 .2 kilometres.
“I thought the lap wasn’t that special, I was surprised by the pole position”
“Thank you all or the public, thank you for being here in this rain”, declared Sainz, from 27 years, as soon as he got out of the car at Silverstone, where he will complete his Grand Prix number 72 in the queen category. “It was a good lap, but I had the occasional problem with the water, which made it easy for the car to tail”, added the talented driver from Madrid, who has eleven podiums in F1 and who will seek his first win in the division this Sunday of honor of motoring.
“The return did not think that it would have been so special, that’s why it caught me by surprise, really”, commented the Spaniard from Ferrari, who has just finished second in Canada and who this Sunday will seek his first victory in the premier class in the circuit that hosted the first race of F1 history, at 1950.
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