After only about three hours from the end of the sprint, the qualifications for tomorrow's race followed.
The battle continued at 09:00 CET/MK, until then the cars came out of the parc ferme conditions and with the new rules it was possible to work on their set-up.
Carlos Sainz Jr. annoyed by Alonso made the sprint more interesting, but his team almost suffered.
The Spaniard in Aston Martin received a 10 second penalty and 3 penalty points in his F1 license. The penalty did not affect his result, of course he was the last on table, due to a punctured tire in the 17th of the 19 laps.
After that, in our opinion, followed an inadmissible battle between Ferrari teammates, which from afar it was seen that Sainz Jr. would not win! Plus it took out valuable time to continue Leclerc`s battle with Perez.
Fernando Alonso may have been too aggressive in his defense against Sainz Jr., darting inside the contact between the two, just as Sainz Jr. later did, was twice as aggressive, knocking a teammate off the track, likely in the heat of battle, but he should have been much more careful.
On the other hand, it's nice to finally see some aggressiveness on the track, something that was lacking in previous races.
Sergio Perez was patient, perhaps too much, but eventually got a chance to double overtake at the right moment, for P3, but Lewis Hamilton was already too far ahead to attack.
Max in his style, since he "fixed" the tires, everything was easy. In just ten laps, 13 seconds advantage over Hamilton's Mercedes AMG.
Moments later Lando Norris had a off the track moment and dropped to seventh place. Everything he did well in the sprint qualifying was lost by one mistake. There was not even a minimal chance to return to the top.
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