George Russell qualified P5 for tomorrow's Grand Prix in a tight field, just 0.025s from P3. For the second week in a row, he was pipped to the next grid position by one millisecond. George was running the sole example of a development front wing that was available to the team this weekend, two races ahead of its planned introduction thanks to a huge effort from the factory. It was agreed with and between the drivers for George to run the front wing this weekend. Lewis qualified P7, just eight hundredths of a second behind George, with the two Mercedes split by Max Verstappen in the standings. Both drivers were able to run two new sets of Soft tyres in Q3, having progressed strongly...
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