Two breakdowns in the cars of Leclerc and Vettel clear the way to Hamilton, who takes his fourth pole

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Ferrari does not lift his head. Whenever the ‘Scuderia’ has been in a position to take the win this season, there has been an unforeseen event that has made it impossible for the Maranello brand to have won a single victory. In Bahrain, it was an electrical problem that prevented Charles Leclerc from opening his locker in Formula 1; in Canada it was the commissioners who interceded and sanctioned Sebastian Vettel in the final turns of the test, and in Austria a miscalculation and an overconfidence allowed a brutal escalation of Max Verstappen, who passed over Leclerc without compassion. This Sunday in Germany, (15:10 hours, Movistar Formula 1), only a miracle will take Ferrari to the top of the podium in a grand prize that dominated in all rehearsal free sessions before falling apart in the timed.

Two different faults in the two cars of the structure of Maranello separated his two pilots from the fight for the 'pole', which was left in tray for Lewis Hamilton to take over with her, the fourth of the Briton until this course and the number 87 of your service sheet. The current champion and undisputed leader of the general table (has 39 points over Valttery Bottas) did not even know how to explain to his team, on the radio, how he was going to start from the first position of the grid, in a race that priori was coming uphill. “I don't really know how we got here. Ferrari has been ahead at all times, ”said Mercedes, who will share the front row with Max Verstappen. Carlos Sainz will leave the seventh after McLaren managed to rectify in time and minimize the effect of the evolutions displaced to Hockenheim by the competition.

Hamilton's surprise is understandable. It is not normal that after mastering the workouts, Leclerc goes from the tenth and Vettel, the last. In the case of the German, a failure in the turbo of his prototype left him without time in the first screen of the official session (Q1), while the Monegasque could not face the last one (Q3) due to a breakdown in the fuel system of your SF90.