McLaren claims the front row for Saturday’s Sprint race in São Paulo, while Max Verstappen starts 4th. Watch free on Fubo.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has won all four Formula 1 Sprint races this season but will have some work to do if he wants to run his streak to six in a row (he also won the final Sprint in 2023). McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris finished 1-2 in Sprint qualifying on Friday and will make up the front row of the grid for Saturday’s race. Verstappen, meanwhile, qualified fourth and will start outside of Charles Leclerc of Ferrari on Row 2. Verstappen comes to São Paulo with a 47-point lead over Norris in his quest for a fourth consecutive world championship while McLaren is 29 points ahead of Ferrari for the constructor title after Ferrari’s 1-3 finish in Mexico City on Sunday.
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Race Date: Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024
Race Time: 9:55 a.m. ET
TV: ESPN2
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Piastri and Norris were the lone drivers to post qualifying laps faster than 1:09, with Piastri clipping Norris for the pole by 0.029 seconds. Row 3 of the starting grid will be Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz and Mercedes’ George Russell, with Pierre Gasly of Alpine and Liam Lawson of RB Honda on the fourth row. Rounding out the top 10 starts are Alexander Albon of Williams and Oliver Bearman, a substitute driver for Kevin Magnussen of Haas this weekend.
Verstappen’s Sprint streak continued at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 19. Drivers are awarded points from eight for first down to one for eighth place in the shorter Sprint format. Verstappen’s winless streak in Grands Prix stands at 10 races since he topped the podium in Spain on June 23.
Verstappen also faces a five-place grid penalty at the start of Sunday’s Grand Prix after his power unit was changed for the sixth time this season. His lead in the driver standings was cut by 10 points in Mexico City after two 10-second penalties pushed him from fourth to sixth place in the final standings while Norris finished second.
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