Do we go to another dominant Saturday from McLaren, or their rivals will emerge a surprise in the qualification of Formula 1 at the Gran Prize of Emilia Romagna?
The McLaren duo of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris has led the way over the three practice sessions. Piastri led the synchronization sheets in FP1 and FP2, with Norris Right Beind in P2, while Norris was the fastest today in FP3, with Piestri behind him in second place.
An important story to see in today’s classification session is the Soft C6 compound, which is used for the first time this season in Icola. While the drivers changed the middle compound to the SOFTS at the end of FP3, few improvements were found in the return times. The possible reason? Soft tires overheated at the end of the return, reducing grip levels through the few final corners of the circuit.
That could change the way the equipment approaches their qualification of the duration of the heating laps, which could increase the traffic that we see the duration Q1.
It could be a chaotic qualification session, and we have it live covered for you here in SB Nation, From the beginning of Q1 to the session.
