Neither of them has a new soft tire, and the sprint regulations require it
Q1 and Q2 will be done with new medium tires
This Friday’s classification in the Formula 1 Baku GP Prix left a lot of news for the sprint on Saturday. Landro Norris and Yuki Tsunoda will be ‘victims’ of one of them by not being able to participate in a potential Q3 in the ‘shootout’.
According to information provided by the journalist Chris Medland, the regulations for the sprint classification this Saturday specify that in Q3 all participating cars they need a new set of softs, something neither Norris (7th) nor Tsunoda (8th) have.
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The Japanese Alpha Tauri pilot and the British McLaren they will be able to participate, in theory, only in Q1 and Q2, which will run on new medium tires in the new F1 format.
Let’s remember that the new shootout format will only determine the grid places for the sprint race of Saturday. On Sunday, as usual, the grid will be marked by the original ‘qualy’.