Kevin Magnussen's pole at the BrazilGP will join the list of F1 underdog achievements - but how did he pull it off? 🇧🇷 Here's a look at how Magnussen got his break ⬇️
The common denominator in such cases is inevitably rain, plus a team and driver that gets everything just right on the day when the usual frontrunners don't quite achieve their normal level of perfection.
Schumacher showed just how easy it was to be on the wrong side of fortune, doing some decent laps early on in the damp conditions he was perhaps overcautious and simply didn't get a quick enough lap in when it mattered at the end of Q1, and he was knocked out in 20th. That allowed Magnussen to nip out of his garage and park at the end of the pitlane ahead of the two Ferraris and Max Verstappen's Red Bull.
Magnussen had to sit at the end of the pitlane for over a minute with his tyre temperatures fading. With a clear track ahead, but not knowing if he'd come across the first signs of drizzle, he just got on with the job and put in a perfect first lap to go fastest. As drivers headed into a second lap rain was threatening, but there was still a possibility that others would be able to go quicker than Magnussen on their second laps. Indeed Perez was particularly fast in the first sector.
"I don't want to sound pretentious, but I could see that nobody could better the lap," said Steiner."It started to rain, how you will better that time? It was quite obvious for me, it was more like, what else can happen? "Obviously some people say we got lucky," said his boss."But I think we didn't get lucky, we did a good job and then everything played to our favour, because we were at the right end of the pit lane and we used that position. We could have waited see what the other ones are doing, not to take a risk with the tyres.
"Obviously keeping Kevin focused it's very important in a case like this, because this strategy is not really made by the race engineer, but the race engineer is telling him the story of what is happening, and if you do that in a good way the driver has confidence, and can do a lap like this. We are talking tenths of seconds on a wet race track, which is difficult to achieve.
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