After hiding for the whole Catalan weekend, Max Verstappen He emerges with his winged car 8 minutes after the end of 3 minutes and puts Red Bull ahead with best time (1’17”835). The Dutchman, who won his first major prize in Barcelona on his debut with the Austrian team, trailed Lewis Hamilton Mercedes by just over twenty (+0.235). The British man is aiming this afternoon (from 3 pm) to obtain the 100th pole of his career that was denied him by 7 thousand in Portugal a week ago by his teammate Valtteri Bottas (fifth in the last free training with 5 tenths of good).
F1, the Japanese Tsunoda in Europe
Written by our reporter Alessandra Retiko
Well Ferraris
Behind the World Cup contenders, here are the Reds: Charles Leclerc He is third in 4-tenths from the summit (and 2 from Frica) and Carlos Sainz, in his first home race as a Ferrari driver, is fourth at 1/10 behind his team-mate. Sixth place for McLaren from Lando Norris, Ferrari fans’ biggest rival: the British also the protagonist in a ride of gravel 10 minutes after the end of the course in the new corner of Montmelo No.10, but for him and for him nothing the car result. His successor is Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri, seventh and seventh. In the top ten, the other McLaren, Daniel Ricciardo (eighth to over 7-tenths), Kimi Raikkonen’s Alfa Romeo (the Finn also tackles a hole punch) is ahead of Red Bull II, Sergio Perez.
Vettel is in trouble
Between trial time number 11 and number 12, two generation comparison: Fernando Alonso, 39, on the Alps, got the best (8 tenths off the top) in the domestic race but directly behind him, rookie from ‘Alpha Tore, Japanese Yuki Tsunoda, who sees his idol In Fernando (in addition to brilliantly overtaking him on the track in the first race in Bahrain). Esteban Ocon is only 13th on the Alps, but always ahead of Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll (14th in over a second) but still better than his new teammate, former Ferrari driver and 4-time world champion, Sebastian Vettel (17 in seconds and four) Times) half). Better than German Antonio Giovinazzi in Alfa Romeo (16th to +1.3), behind Williams led by George Russell (15th) who is waiting for Nicholas Latifi’s sister behind the wheel (18th place). Penultimate time for Mick Schumacher over Haas, ahead of his Russian teammate, Nikita Mazepin, who finally managed to keep the car on the right track.
Formula 1, free Mercedes license plates in Montmelo: Hamilton flies, Leclerc in third
Written by our reporter Alessandra Retiko
Before the start of the last free training sessions, a long ring meeting between the team manager and the new F1 president, Italian Stefano Domenicali, to discuss above all the Turkish Grand Prix that was announced less than two weeks ago to replace one in Canada, is likely to jump after the kingdom set in The country is on the Covid red list and with a mandatory 10-day quarantine for those returning from there: which puts 70% of F1s in crisis, given that 7 teams are based in the UK. Domenicali confirmed that a decision will be made soon: “We are trying to understand if we have exceptions, otherwise we will evaluate other options. The goal is to keep 23 races but above all the timing of the calendar. Mugello and Nürburgring agenda?”
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