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I think that Verstappen is the favorite seeing the end results of such qualifying but the reliability problems of Redbull are worrisome for the complete length of the race.I think that Ferrari is still there and they have a big chance to win this race,they were first and second in the initial practice tests.I have bet on Leclerc to win the race because I think a lot of things can happen during a race and the weather conditions are unclear and with such happenings the most reliable car so far which is Ferrari has really good chances to win the race.

It was a really unfortunate sprint race for Leclerc. He could have taken the pole position for the race in fact. But his front right tyre started graining earlier and this was a big opportunity for Verstappen to overtake him again. Verstappen had a really bad start against Leclerc but he still managed to take his place back from Leclerc in the last moments of the sprint race. And I was happy for Sainz too as he climbed to the fourth place from tenth. And it hasn't been the best race weekend for Mercedes drivers. I wonder what they will do in the race.

Leclerc got problems with his tires an he was unable to fight with Max in the final part of the race.
Good recovery for Sainz.

For tomorrow is not clear which wheater they will face.

I guess Verstappen getting pole this time around is well deserved?    Leclerc had the lead for like over 90% of the sprint race til Verstappen came pushing himself towards the end.  I think it was Ferrari's team's fault for not telling Leclerc to save his tires for the last couple laps.  Verstappen probably did and was able to push it and gained the position back.

Anyway, I still think Leclerc will win tomorrow if nothing out of the ordinary happens...

Here are the results.

2022 F1 Emilia Romagna GP Sprint Quali Results

1   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   21 Laps
2   Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   + 2.975s
3   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Bull Racing   + 4.721s
4   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   + 17.578s
5   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   + 24.561s
6   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   + 27.740s
7   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen   + 28.133s
8   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   Haas F1 Team   + 30.712s
9   Fernando Alonso   ESP   BWT Alpine F1 Team   + 32.278s
10   Mick Schumacher   GER   Haas F1 Team   + 33.773s
11   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team   + 36.284s
12   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri   + 38.289s
13   Sebastian Vettel   GER   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   + 40.177s
14   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team   + 41.459s
15   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   + 42.910s
16   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   + 43.517s
17   Pierre Gasly   FRA   Scuderia AlphaTauri   + 43.794s
18   Alexander Albon   THA   Williams Racing   + 48.871s
19   Nicholas Latifi   CAN   Williams Racing   + 52.017s
    Guanyu Zhou   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen   DNF

During FP1, FP2, FP3 and FP4, Portugal's Algarve Portimao circuit was wet so it was difficult to predict who would be in front, but once we entered Q1 and Q2, the circuit started to dry and some of the riders tried to have the best time to stay on the front grid. , but at the end of qualifying Johan Zarco was able to record the best time thus making it the Pole Position for tomorrow's race.
Who do you think will get Podium 1, 2 and 3 tomorrow ?

^  Yup, the leaders are clearly sand bagging during FP2...  How many laps are the sprint races again?  If Leclerc doesn't get first position at the start, he could have just a couple of opportunities for a DRS pass.  


No way Verstappen deserved pole.  Lol.  And you guys know I'm more lean in favor towards Red Bull over other F1 teams.  It's clear to anyone who watched quali that the red flags fucked Leclerc's chances up to take it away from Verstappen.  

But yeah..  I'm pretty sure with Ferrari's car advantage Leclerc could take the race.  So it's a 'no' in the market I'm eyeing of  putting a little bet on.

Edit:  Sprint race in 7 mins or so...

Edit:  Look like it's a 'yes'. 

This is the horrible part of the sprint qualify.

The free practice 2 where nobody cares about anything, they are testing race situations so it will ends be boring .

1   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team   1m19.457s
2   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Bull Racing   1m19.538s
3   Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   1m19.740s
4   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team   1m19.992s
5   Fernando Alonso   ESP   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m20.1741s
6   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   1m20.258s
7   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m20.371s
8   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m20.381s
9   Pierre Gasly   FRA   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m20.439s
10   Guanyu Zhou   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen   1m20.498s
11   Alexander Albon   THA   Williams Racing   1m20.591s
12   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   Haas F1 Team   1m20.740s
13   Mick Schumacher   GER   Haas F1 Team   1m20.977s
14   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m21.149s
15   Sebastian Vettel   GER   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m21.155s
16   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m21.179s
17   Nicholas Latifi   CAN   Williams Racing   1m21.263s
18   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   1m23.821s
19   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   No Time Set
20   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen   No Time Set

Source: https://www.crash.net/f1/results/1001286/1/f1-2022-emilia-romagna-grand-prix-free-practice-results-2

Awful qualifiers for Mercedes yesterday and yes , it was the worst result after 1 decade.

Live right now Practice 2 and I was right to think that RedBull will come full force here as it's the last chance for them to minimize the gap between them and Ferrari. However,I don't think they will take the win in the race as this Ferrari car is simply way better.

Weather predictions : Sky is getting cloudy so we might have some light rain later.

Very event rich qualification yesterday for the sprint race, with many interruptions.

According to the weather forecast, there is only a 20% chance of rain today, but on Sunday it looks like more rain again.

For Mercedes qualifying was a debacle, think the worst result in a decade?

It was a really boring qualifying session in my opinion. Because it stopped so many times that I just wished it ended as soon as possible. The rain made things worse for the drivers and spectators at the same time. Verstappen had a lucky day as he managed to take the pole position for the sprint race. Because Leclerc didn't have the chance to beat Verstappen's fastest lap in Q3 because of a red flag which caused the session to come to an end. But I hope that the sprint race doesn't become boring too.

Qualifying today was quite big wtf. So many accidents, red flags, change of weather and rain. So, after all, length of qualifying was close to 2 hours, almost like a race. Verstappen won pole, but this qualification didn't answered question who is who fully. Mercedes didn't even reached Q3, but it don't show that they are so bad - they simply wasn't able to make their fast lap attempt on dry track because of another red flag. And P4 for Magnussen is amazing achievement, especially after that his accident when he was close to be eliminated.

The series of MotoGP races on the European continent will be a test for Takaaki Nakagami in an effort to maintain a seat at LCR Honda for 2023.

The Japanese racer's contract will expire at the end of 2022. And his position is currently threatened by a young Moto2 star as well as his compatriot who is currently defending Honda Team Asia, namely Ai Ogura. Nakagami, supported by Idemitsu, was specially prepared for Japanese racers. Given the same sponsorship of Ogura, he too is a logical candidate to replace his compatriot.

This situation might happen. The reason is, in four years with LCR Honda, Nakagami failed to score a podium and only three times won the fourth best position.
He even started MotoGP 2022 not so satisfying. Only once did he finish in the top 10, bringing him to 16th place in the standings.

"To be honest, I've been under pressure since Qatar," Nakagami said when asked by Motorsport.com if the racing weekend in Portugal added pressure on him to perform for his future.

“But the last four races – Qatar, Indonesia, Argentina, America – were certainly not the best performance. Only a top 10 finish in Qatar.

"I'm not looking for that bad result. Now from Portimao, Jerez, those two races were really important for me to gain confidence again. Then I need to show the team and HRC that I have potential, that I have speed.

"So maybe it's extra pressure, but at the same time I'm looking for my confidence back. These two races will be very important for the future." _{Source: motorsport.com / sport.zone_id}

Verstappen and Red Bull also had to show something because the previous editions Ferrari was very busy with LeClerc. It's not a guarantee of overall victory, but you'd better be on Pole Position at this track. I expect it will be between LeCLerc and Verstappen again, but the Red Bull engine has already failed twice so that will be exciting. I am also curious if they have tinkered with something, 2x a dropout in races does not seem a coincidence to me. But too much tinkering is also not possible, then you get penalized places. But with the new rules, the rules about this will be different, possibly.

Pole position for Max, deserved? Who knows.

Anyway it will be hard for overtake in this track, we will see if Sainz can recover from p10 after the mistake he made.

Yup it was bound to happen seeing how wet the track was.  Overall under normal conditions it's the Ferraris who's fastest in all tire compounds and in two out of three sectors of the track...  I think even all past tracks raced so far in the season.

But no harm no foul.  Let's just hope for dry weather tomorrow...  Here are the results for quali. I don't think I'll be betting my little secret market for the race.  Too unpredictable with the rain that comes and goes.

2022 F1 Emilia Romagna Qualifying Results

 1   Max Verstappen   NED   Oracle Red Bull Racing   1m19.295s   1m18.793s   1m27.999s
2   Charles Leclerc   MON   Scuderia Ferrari   1m18.796s   1m19.584s   1m28.778s
3   Lando Norris   GBR   McLaren F1 Team   1m20.168s   1m19.294s   1m29.131s
4   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   Haas F1 Team   1m20.147s   1m19.902s   1m29.164s
5   Fernando Alonso   ESP   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m20.198s   1m19.595s   1m29.202s
6   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   McLaren F1 Team   1m19.980s   1m20.031s   1m29.742s
7   Sergio Perez   MEX   Oracle Bull Racing   1m19.773s   1m19.296s   1m29.808s
8   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen   1m20.419s   1m20.192s   1m30.439s
9   Sebastian Vettel   GER   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m20.364s   1m19.957s   1m31.062s
10   Carlos Sainz   ESP   Scuderia Ferrari   1m19.305s   1m18.990s   No Time Set
11   George Russell   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team   1m20.383s   1m20.757s   
12   Mick Schumacher   GER   Haas F1 Team   1m20.422s   1m20.916s   
13   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team   1m20.470s   1m21.138s   
14   Guanyu Zhou   CHN   Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen   1m19.730s   1m21.434s   
15   Lance Stroll   CAN   Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team   1m20.342s   1m28.119s   
16   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m20.474s       
17   Pierre Gasly   FRA   Scuderia AlphaTauri   1m20.732s       
18   Nicholas Latifi   CAN   Williams Racing   1m21.971s       
19   Esteban Ocon   FRA   BWT Alpine F1 Team   1m22.338s       
20   Alexander Albon   THA   Williams Racing   No Time Set       

Unlucky turn of events and Verstappen did the fastest lap before the red flag but he was under Yellow card 


3 minutes to go but I think is not possible to improve with cold tyres.

^  Yeah I'm having the same expectations with Verstappen on the wet track too.  But after FP1, it looks like it wouldn't matter judging how the Ferrari cars are having too much of an advantage against their rivals.  It also looks like my little secret market could win more than 50% if I keep putting money on it for the whole season...  That's if the line is 1.80 or above for the whole season. 

Anyway, just 10 minutes away for qualifying guys.

Heavy rain in Italy but the wheater will improve in the following days.

Sainz signed an extension to his contract.

1st time we will see this car with rain tires, will be interesting.

However IMHO, if it is raining Verstappen should dominate not only for his ability but also cause Redbull uses more tires so they can have better temperatures.

I've dreamed all night that Lance Stroll and Aston Martin will have a winning car next year ..but we all know that dreams are dreams , right ? The funny thing is that Vettel was no more in Aston Martin and Lec and Str were fighting for position 1 with Aston Martin taking the lead and eventually the win.

Personally, I wouldn't mind to see Aston Martin building a winning car but it's hard to fight with teams that are here for such a long history. Anyway, for weekend , I do see a Max victory even if I hate saying this.

I don't have a favorite driver among those that seem to be able to fight for the Championship this season (i still include Hamilton and Russell in that list too because we should never underestimate Mercedes as the season has just begun), but still i would be really happy if Verstappen would be able to at least finish the race this weekend and also reach a place at the podium. He already lost 36 safe points this season because his car was or is just not as reliable as the Ferrari or the Mercedes. I hope Red Bull already fixed that problem as of now because otherwise the gap to Ferrari and Leclerc just becomes to big to early.