Max Verstappen, racer Red Bulla, he drove away the fastest time of the round of the first free practice of the US Grand Prix. The Dutchman drove the track in Austin the fastest in time 1: 34.057 minutes and was just under two tenths of a second faster than Sebastian Vettla. Both Verstappen and Vettel took their time at soft mixtures tires.
Follow them on third place we always find better Alex Albon in another Red Bullu. He was one and a half tenths behind his teammate. For the top three, however, there is already a bigger hole. Fourth Pierre Gasly he was almost a second behind. Fifth Daniel Ricciardo (+1,206) and sixth Romain Grosjean (+1,299) managed to swing in front of some top racers such as Charles Leclerc, who was only seventh (+1,323), but to the young Monaco he was fastest time deleted.
We find him in eighth place Lewis Hamilton (+1,382). The current champion was also given the best time because, like the others, he did not stick track restrictions. They round up the top ten Lance stroll (+1,529) in Kevin Magnussen (+ 1,602).
Because they were many lap times deleted - for non-compliance track restrictions - the table is somewhat scattered and does not correspond to the actual power ratio. From eleventh place onwards the racers were ranked as follows: Kwiat, Sainz, Raikkonen, Perez, Giovinazzi, Hülkenberg, Bottas, Norris, Kubica, Latifi - the latter instead of Russell.
Mercedes Benz is in his first practice experimented with aerodynamics, as it is Bottas performed with a number of sensors and collected valuable data for the aerodynamics department. Charles Leclerc he frightened his command desk with the conscience that he had engine problem, but later turned out to be causing problems accelerator pedal. Very little, however, was driven by the young Latifi at Williams, as he drove only seven laps due to technical problems.
We witnessed it too minor incidents, as the racers tested the boundaries of their race cars. It was mainly due to the already mentioned overrun track restrictions - to delete lap times, a little more spectacular for the spectators, however, he was Carlos Sainz, who lost his backside and spun.
Finally, it should be mentioned that it is Pirelli brought to Austin test tires for the 2020 season. Each racer received an additional set of tires for Friday.
