Damon Hill is concerned McLaren face a “very tricky situation” heading into the F1 Sao Paulo Grand P🐻rix with the “wrong guy” on pole position.

McLaren secured an impressive front-row lockout on the Interlagos grid for Saturday’s sprint race, with168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Oscar Piastri pipping teammate and championship hopeful 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris to pole.

Norris starts the weekend 47 points behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, who qualified fourth. With the Red Bull driver serving a five-place grid penalty for the mai💟n 🥃grand prix on Sunday, Norris has an opportunity to claw back more points.

McLa🔥ren have openly stated they will favour Norris over Piastri while his title hopes are still alive but 1996 world champion Hill has warned that the start of the sprint race will be difficult to navigate.

“They are doing something right, they have absolutely nailed it,” Hill said of McLaren’s q♍ualifying performance.

“McLaren have now got a problem ꦍbecause they’ve got two cars in a very tricky situation and kind of the wrong guy on pole. We are going to have to♍ see what will happen in the sprint.”

Hill later added: “I think it’s going to very, very tricky for McLaren to nav༒iဣgate Turn 1. Lando is in a bit of a tricky situation.

“It’s only a short run to 💃the first corne♔r and you’ve got a left and a right very, very quickly and it’s very easy to get someone on your inside.”

Norris insisted h♑e was not thinking about the champi꧃onship.

"I hate this question so much," he responded to a question 🐟after sprint qualifying. "I'm just going to race. 💯I don't care about where he [Verstappen] qualified.

🌼"For me it's just focus on my own job. It's the same question every time. It doesn't matter. If he's first or last, I will do the best I can.”

Meanwhile൩, Piastri confirmed he would be prepared to support Norris’s title bid.

Asked if he would move a♔side for his teammate, Piastri responded: “Yes. I said I would when we first had these discussions. It would be nice to win but it’s one point difference.

“It’s not the main race. We will see. Lando needs the p🀅ointsღ in the drivers’ standings a lot more than I do but of course I want to win.

“If I put in the effort and have good p🐻ace then I am sure that won’t go unnoticed. Let’s see.”