After an error filled qualifying, Sky Sports pundit Anthony Davidson, believes Red Bull pulled out a surprise by beating the pace of Charles Leclerc. The Monegasque driver will start tomorrow’s Sprint race at the Imola circuit from second place, behind the Red Bull of Max Verstappen, while Carlos Sainz will have a lot of ground to make up due to a mistake in Q2, which forces him to start from tenth place:
“I think all the drivers who made it through to the end unscathed had to really hold their nerve. We saw many mistakes as anticipated and predicted before the session, we saw them in FP1 as well. I wasn’t surprised to see the amount of red flags we had but maybe a little bit trigger happy. I agree with the commentators during qualifying there that when Magnussen went off. The car was still running and moving backwards and forwards freely and the red flag came out and I think that one should have just been a double waved yellow. Max Verstappen held his nerve and he went off the track there even after putting that magnificent lap together. I expected Ferrari to have the pace, we saw it in practice and we thought it would materialise in qualifying but it didn’t.” – Sky Sports pundit Anthony Davidson explained, at the end of the qualifying session for the 2022 Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
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