Sergio Perez has had the luxury of overtaking his Dutch team-mate and outgoing champion, Max Verstappen who could not do better than 4th and will share the second row on the starting grid with the other Ferrari driver, the Spaniard Carlos Sainz Junior.
Qualifying was marked by a violent accident for Mick Schumacher (Haas-Ferrari), the son of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, and the surprise elimination of Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), also seven-time world champion, from Q1. , the first time this has happened to him since the 2017 Brazilian GP.
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