The Formula 1 It has already been defined but there are still two weekends of racing and fun for fans of the best motorsport in the world. The first of them began to be contested this Friday in a Brazilian Grand Prix special, because there will be qualifying later and sprint race this Saturday. Faced with this, the first contact with the track was a training that ended with a triple virtual draw.
Sergio Czech Perezwho is looking for the runner-up, has eliminated him cfour thousandths your biggest competitor for that position, Charles Leclercand eight to his Red Bull teammate and two-time champion of the category, Max Verstappenon a hot and humid track, so much so that the temperature on the asphalt reached 50 ° C.
Behind that trio was there Carlos Sainz. The Spaniards, who will penalize in Sunday’s race with five places for changing the car’s internal combustion engine for the sixth time this year, he was 186 thousandths behind the Mexican driver.
While Mercedesfighting Ferrari for second place, puts his drivers in fifth place (Lewis Hamilton) and sixth (Giorgio Russel).
practice interlaghi It started in the same vein as this championship: with Verstappen continuing to dominate with hard tires on his Red Bull. With a time of 1: 13.575 the Dutchman remained the best of the day for a time, even half a second ahead of Ferrari.
But when Pérez put the red tires on his car mid-session, that time was canceled with a time of 1: 11.853. Such was the difference Mike Schumacherthe other driver at that moment who was running with clean air, was a second and a half behind on the Haas with medium tires.
Verstappen, therefore, left the Red Bull garage with a series of new soft softs. But even so, he was unable to lower his teammate’s time and was, at that moment, second to eight thousandths, which Leclerc broke at the end of training, remaining only four with the yellow matches, thinking of saving new red matches for the ranking or even the Sprint.
It was not an easy practice lando norris (15th), who suffered from a stomach problem in the previous one and was seen on the track a bit erratic, to the point that Sainz, his former teammate at McLaren, had to do a quick maneuver and go to the ground to avoid touch it. “Super dangerous”said the Spaniard in radio communication with the Ferrari team.
It didn’t go well either. AlpineThat trying to secure fourth place in the constructors’ championship to be “the best of the rest”. Fernando Alonso (11 °) and Stefano Ocon (13th) were out of the top 10 even though they were a second behind Pérez.
With this scenario, we look forward to the ranking of 16 (Fox Sports and Star +) which will define the grid for the Sprint Race, which will take place on Saturday at 16:30, four hours after the second free practice. Meanwhile, on Sunday, the penultimate race of the year will start at 15:00.
Source: Clarin
