Pink flag and rain reward Haas driver Kevin Magnussen pole placement for Sao Paulo Sprint race at Brazil Grand Prix

Kevin Magnussen gained Denmark and Haas’ to start with pole situation, at Friday’s qualifying session at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

The Dane will now commence Saturday’s Sprint race in pole, in which the finishing buy will decide the grid positions for Sunday’s Grand Prix right.

Magnussen secured pole in abnormal circumstances as there were only a handful of minutes run in Q3.

George Russell brought a red flag out when, sitting in 3rd in the provisional standings, he beached his Mercedes on Convert 4, and race officials set about attempting to transfer his vehicle to safety.

This incident appeared to have remaining Russell at a downside with no expectation he would be capable to get again onto the monitor to make improvements to his time, but in the long run it proved to be to his advantage in contrast to most of the other runners who had been left stricken.

Nonetheless, with dim clouds gathering all working day in Brazil, the hold off in the transfer gave a chance for hefty rain showers to arrive down with numerous drivers impatient to get their most effective time down in the remaining part of the session.

Regretably for them, and thankfully for Haas, when the 8 allotted minutes restarted, the climate disorders prevented any competitive new time. Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton deserted the only try, leaving him in eighth.

Next quickest was this and very last year’s earth winner, Dutch driver Max Verstappen, for Red Bull. Mexican staff-mate Sergio Perez was ninth when the prohibitively inclement weather conditions kicked in.

Lando Norris ongoing his spectacular time with a fourth-positioned complete, although Ferrari’s fastest driver was Carlos Sainz in fifth. Charles Leclerc was caught in 10th when the session finished. Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso took sixth and seventh respectively.

Q1 observed Zhou Guanyu, Nicolas Latifi, Valtteri Bottas, Yuki Tsunoda and Mick Schumacher slash from the pack, with the latter rumoured to be racing for his Haas seat next season beneath tension from Nico Hulkenberg.

A drizzly Q2 did for Alex Albon, Pierre Gasly, Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo and Lance Stroll.

Saturday morning offers the teams another prospect to get out for practice, at the weekend’s 2nd session, but they will be just as focused at the Sprint race afterwards that working day, that gives 8 details for the winner, and details for all of the top rated-eight finishers.