Sport SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2020 Golf:Go world number two Jon Rahm moves intoin tie for Masters second-round lead I ddidn’t want to end the day on the wrong note. I wasn’t suresu on the read I had. I came out today and it felt like a differentd putt with the greens being a lot faster. Jon Rahm Sport | 06 SENIOR VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE: Al Arabi bt Al Sadd 3-0 (25-20, 27-25,25-19), Al Gharafa bt Al Shamal 3-2 (20-25, 25-16, 20-25, 25-17, 15-11) Stroll upstages title-chasing Hamilton to take maiden pole AFP – ISTANBUL Lance Stroll F1: TURKISH GRAND PRIX GRID 1st row 6th row Lance Stroll upstaged Formula One’s Lance Stroll (CAN/Racing Point-Mercedes) Lando Norris (GBR/McLaren-Renault) title-chasing Lewis Hamilton Max Verstappen (NED/Red Bull-Honda) Sebastian Vettel (GER/Ferrari) yesterday when he grabbed the first 2nd row 7th row pole position of his career at the Sergio Perez (MEX/Racing Point-Mercedes) Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP/McLaren-Renault) Turkish Grand Prix, the Canadian Alex Albon (THA/Red Bull-Honda) Charles Leclerc (MON/Ferrari) saying “it feels really good right 3rd row 8th row now”. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Renault) Pierre Gasly (FRA/AlphaTauri-Honda) The 22-year-old Racing Point Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) Kevin Magnussen (DEN/Haas-Ferrari) driver made the most of drying con- 4th row 9th row ditions on a treacherous track to end Estéban Ocon (FRA/Renault) Daniil Kvyat (RUS/AlphaTauri-Honda) Mercedes’ 13 race domination of Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari) Romain Grosjean (FRA/Haas-Ferrari) qualifying this year. 5th row 10th row Stroll delivered a dazzling fastest Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Mercedes) Nicholas Latifi (CAN/Williams-Mercedes) lap in one minute and 47.765 seconds Antonio Giovinazzi (ITA/Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari) George Russell (GBR/Williams-Mercedes) in the closing seconds to usurp his Petronas Yamaha SRT’s Italian rider Franco team-mate Sergio Perez and then Morbidelli in action yesterday. resist a last surge from Red Bull’s championship and draw level with weeks when he had to miss the Eifel twice for red flags, when Race Max Verstappen. seven-time champion Michael Grand Prix, testing positive for coro- Control declared the track was The disappointed Dutchman Schumacher. navirus the next day. unsafe - firstly due to the conditions was second, three-tenths behind The six-time champion wound “It has been a pretty rough ride and then, secondly, when Romain Morbidelli Stroll, but ahead of Mexican Perez up sixth behind Alex Albon in the for me so it feels good. Feels really Grosjean spun into a gravel trap in who claimed his career-best starting second Red Bull and Renault’s Daniel good right now.” his Haas. position after finishing fourth nine Ricciardo whose team-mate Esteban This is the first time this season The interruptions added 50 times in the past. Ocon qualified seventh. that neither Hamilton (nine) nor minutes to the schedule as daylight on Valencia Stroll was the first Canadian “Yes, Yes, Yes boys,” Stroll Bottas (four) have topped receded in the appalling conditions, to take pole since Jacques Ville- screamed on the team radio. qualifying. but the brilliant car control of Ver- neuve at the 1997 European Grand “I can’t really put it into words,” Hamilton can seal a record- stappen and his Red Bull team-mat MotoGP pole Prix at Jerez and it was the Silver- he added. equalling seventh drivers’ world title Albon was on display as they topped stone-based Racing Point team’s “I’m shocked. I didn’t expect to today if he prevents Bottas from out- the times, the Dutchman 1.9 seconds first pole since, racing as Jordan, be up here after FP3. scoring him by eight points. clear. AFP – MADRID they did so at the 2009 Belgian “There were a lot of things we After Friday’s ice rink conditions In the drama, Leclerc slithered Grand Prix. weren’t sure about coming into qual- on the resurfaced circuit, heavy rain through to Q2 while Hamilton, his Italian Franco Morbidelli will start in pole The outcome left Mercedes well- ifying. We didn’t look that compet- ushered in even more treacherous best lap cancelled for exceeding position for the Valencia MotoGP, with Joan beaten on the weekend when Lewis itive in Q3.” challenges in which most of the track limits, struggled through in 14th Mir’s closest challengers for the World Cham- Hamilton bids to seal a record- His surprise qualifying per- drivers slithered and spun. place. pionship unable to capitalise on the Spaniard’s equalling seventh drivers’ formance comes after a difficult few The Q1 session was interrupted Grosjean was eliminated along underwhelming performance in qualifying with his Haas team-mate Kevin yesterday. Magnussen, the two Williams of Morbidelli of Petronas Yamaha recorded George Russell and Nicholas Latifi the fastest qualifying time of 1min 30.191sec at and Alpha Tauri’s Daniil Kvyat. the Ricardo Tormo circuit while Australian Jack In the severe conditions, the Miller and Japan’s Takaaki Nakagami joined teams were making extreme use of him on the front row for Sunday’s race. their tyre-warming facilities to On an unexpectedly damp day on Spain’s ensure drivers could find at least east coast, Mir was able only to secure 12th and some minimal grip before the rain last place in Q2 but he would have been relieved relented, encouraging some to try to see Frenchman Fabio Quartararo and intermediates. Spanish rider Alex Rins, who sit second and In Q2, both Mercedes were third respectively in the standings, fail to take clearly struggling to keep any heat advantage. Mir’s 37-point lead means the in their tyres while Verstappen, Suzuki rider only needs to finish on the podium oozing confidence, set the pace. in the championship’s penultimate race on At the flag, the Dutchman was Sunday to secure the title, while fourth would two seconds clear of Albon with be enough if neither Rins nor Quartararo win. Hamilton 2.4 down in third and Quartararo will start 11th, just ahead of Mir, Bottas seventh while both Ferraris with Rins behind him in 14th. failed to make the cut to the top-ten France’s Johann Zarco secured fourth spot Drivers in action during shootout. on the starting grid while another Spaniard, the qualifying session In Q3 Verstappen went four Pol Espargaro completes the front five. at the Intecity Istanbul seconds clear of nearest rival Bottas Iker Lecuona will not race for the second Park Circuit in Istanbul before Perez, on intermediates, week in a row after the Tech 3 KTM rider tested ahead of the Turksish re-set expectations by topping the positive for coronavirus. Lecuona missed last Formula One Grand Dutchman and prompting a switch weekend’s European Grand Prix, which was Prix yesterday. of tyres for everyone else for the final also held in Valencia, after his brother and surprising runs. assistant had also tested positive. After 8-month stoppage, ACL East set to resume action in Doha AP - SEOUL Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, one of the venues which will host the Asian Champions League Eastern “We put in a lot of hard Zone matches, is ready for action. work and effort to defend our More than eight months since Our original concern was championship and it is very the Asian Champions League the health and safety of regrettable that we could not (ACL) was suspended due to the our players but I think the do so,” Guangzhou coach Fabio coronavirus, the Eastern Zone AFC has done a great job Cannavaro said. finally resumes next Sunday and it seems that International commitments with teams from Japan, South everything in Qatar is will also affect some teams. Korea, Australia, Thailand and Beijing Guoan starts without China. safe. Chinese Super League top But the tournament will be Sydney FC Chief Executive scorer Cedric Bakambu as the far from normal. Danny Townsend striker has flown to Africa to Malaysian side Johor Darul help Congo qualify for the 2021 Ta’zim (JDT) will not make the African Cup of Nations. trip to host nation Qatar after Shanghai SIPG forward failing to receive permission There were concerns that Marko Arnautovic is also in from the Malaysian government Australian and Chinese repre- action for Austria while South to leave the country which is in sentatives would also not travel Korea’s Ulsan Horangi has four lockdown in a bid to limit the to the biosecure hub of Qatar but from the tournament after 30 Australia has had only one Korea, Japan and China arrived players in action for the spread of coronavirus. 15 of the 16 teams from the east, players and officials tested pos- ACL winner, Western Sydney in Qatar tired and depleted after national team in Europe who “While JDT are extremely the tournament is divided into itive for COVID-19. Wanderers in 2014. But teams having either just finished or will then head to Qatar to par- disappointed in not being able two geographic zones until the There is confidence that the from Down Under, seeking to about to finish grueling domestic ticipate in later group games. to participate in Asia’s flagship final, will be aiming to get out of protocols put in place in Qatar reach the Dec. 18 final to take on seasons. Yokohama F.Marinos, club competition, we respect the their groups and into the will ensure that all runs Persepolis of Iran, may have an Perth’s first opponents, Vissel Kobe and FC Tokyo will decision by the Malaysian gov- knockout stage.