Qualifying results 2018 Brazilian F1 Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton

Event: Brazilian Grand Prix
Track: Autodromo Interlagos

Weather:   Partly Clouded,  23.7ºC
Tarmac: Dry, 39.6ºC
Wind speed: 5.4 km/h
Humidity: 71.3%

Lewis Hamilton scored his 82nd Formula 1 pole position during the 2018 Brazil qualifying session today. He will start from first place for the 3rd time at Sao Paulo in his F1 career tomorrow.

Qualifying for tomorrow's 46th Brazilian Grand Prix started out dry with very dark clouds around the Sao Paulo track.

Q1
In Q1 All drivers got out quickly to set a lap time before it would start to rain. After 5 minutes some light rain started to fall down which surprised Charles Leclerc and caused to spin his Sauber. Max Verstappen then had clocked the quickest lap time in the Red Bull with 1:08.205. Both Ferrari drivers Raikkonen & Vettel were 2nd and 3rd.with exactly the same lap time. Pierre Gasly did a very good lap in the tricky conditions and climbed from P17 to P12 to get into Q2. It was amazing to see the complete grid was between 1.5 sec from P1 to P20.

Q2
The rain didn't came thru and all drivers came out on slicks to set their quickest lap time under dry conditions. Ferrari was the first to drive their lap times on the Soft tyres and will be allowed to start the race on the Soft tyre. Red Bull first drove out on Supersoft, but came in to switch to the Soft tyres. Mercedes drivers Bottas & Hamilton also tried to improve their already set lap time on Soft, but didn't manage to do so. Sergio Sirotkin (Williams) almost collided with the slow driving Mercedes of Hamilton, when the British driver was driving on the race line and tried to avoid Sirotkin but almost crashed into him. Leclerc drove an outstanding lap in the last moments of the session in these tricky conditions to climb from P11 to claim P8.

Q3
All cars went out on slicks. The rain clouds were still hanging around the circuit, but the rain didn't came. In the first stint of Q3 Hamilton was quickest with a 1:07.301, Vettel was 2nd, Bottas 3rd and Raikkonen 4th. In the second stint Hamilton was even quicker and drove a new qualifying record time with 1:07.281 min.

Whether or not Hamilton will get a penalty for blocking Raikkonen and Sirotkin is yet unknown.

The pole time of Valtteri Bottas driven last year was 01:08.322 min.

Here you can read our article on what to expect from the 2018 Brazilian F1 GP.
Here you can find all 2018 Used F1 Power Unit Elements by each driver.

Qualifying Times 2018 Brazilian GP

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