Carlos Sainz Jr. scored his best result of the season to date but the Spaniard feels a podium could have materialised had he gambled on an earlier stop for slick tyres late in the race.
Lance Stroll just missed out on a second F1 podium, but his large haul of points from the German Grand Prix boosted Racing Point’s championship position.
Lewis Hamilton thought he had the 2019 German Grand Prix “under control” until he glanced the barrier mid-race; his race “fell apart from there” as he came home eleventh, ending a twenty-two race point scoring streak.
Lando Norris will drop from sixteenth to nineteenth on the grid for the German Grand Prix after his McLaren team fitted him with new engine components after Qualifying.
Pirelli’s Mario Isola: “Strategy is likely to be at the forefront of the German Grand Prix”
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Come rain or shine, Pirelli are expecting an unpredictable German Grand Prix, with decisions about which tyre to use and when likely to dominate proceedings.
The two Toro Rosso will start fourteenth and seventeenth in Sunday’s German Grand Prix, Daniil Kvyat ahead of Alexander Albon.
Engine problems for Ferrari leave themselves on the back foot for tomorrow’s German Grand Prix.
Red Bull are in the mix for a potential race win at Hockenheim with two drivers in the top four on the grid after a thrilling qualifying session.
Nico Hülkenberg felt he could have qualified two or three places higher up the grid than the ninth he achieved had he managed to put a decent lap together in Q3 on Saturday.
Sergio Pérez will start eighth and Lance Stroll fifteenth on Sunday, with both Racing Point drivers confident of fighting for a points finish.
The legal dispute between Racing Point F1 Team’s creditors, FRP Advisory LLP and Russian chemicals company Uralkali is set to go to trial late next year.
It was a mixed Qualifying session for McLaren in Germany, with Carlos Sainz Jr. seventh and Lando Norris seventeenth, although both are eyeing points on Sunday.
Romain Grosjean was an excellent sixth in Qualifying for the German Grand Prix, but the Frenchman hopes the race pace of his VF-19 will enable him to fight for points on Sunday.
Kimi Räikkönen will start fifth and Antonio Giovinazzi eleventh for the German Grand Prix, with both drivers aiming for the points on Sunday.
Toto Wolff praised Lewis Hamilton for his pole position in qualifying for the German Grand Prix, but said that Ferrari’s issues detracted from the spectacle.
Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas say that Ferrari’s retirement from German GP qualifying was unfortunate.
Lewis Hamilton takes a German Grand Prix Pole as both Scuderia Ferrari’s face mechanical woes leaving them tenth and twentieth respectively.
