Bojan Vrbnjak
Sergio Perez is on his first free practice GP of Styria scored the first best time of the season for the team Racing Point. The Mexican drove his fastest lap in time 1: 04.867 minutes. For Ferrari however, just a week after the inaugural race of the season, he faces the next defeat, despite new work on the car.
Mexican Perez put the best lap time on a soft rubber compound, the second of today’s workout Max Verstappen however, he was less than a tenth of a second behind him. Also Dutchman was shod in a soft rubber compound. Mercedes, who finished third and fourth, put his times on a medium tire mix. Valtteri Bottas he was just a good two-tenths of a second behind the Mexican, fourth Lewis Hamilton however, he was only a few thousandths slower than his teammate.
Good team form Racing Point he confirmed Lance stroll in fifth place. But his fastest first practice time was deleted because it is Canadian in turn 10 he left the track, although that would not change his ranking. He was sixth Alex Albon, who complained about understeer throughout the training.
They are finishing ten Carlos Sainz in seventh place, Pierre Gasly on the eighth, Daniel Ricciardo on the ninth and Sebastian Vettel in tenth place. The German was 0,9 seconds behind the Mexican, which was less than a tenth of a second faster than his teammate. Charles Leclerc, which was the twelfth. Between the two racers Ferrari a Russian racer interjected Daniil Kvyat.
From the thirteenth place onwards, the following racers were ranked in order: Esteban Ocon, Lando Norris, Kimi Raikkonen, Romain Grosjean, Jack aitken (a Formula 2 racer celebrated his premiere appearance in Formula 1 for the Williams team), Robert Kubica, Nicholas latifi in Kevin Magnussen. The last two racers didn't really drive today, as the Canadian drove only 6 laps, and today even only 3.
The World Formula 1 he looked with interest at the team's garage Ferrari. After the disappointment in the opening race, the Italians prematurely brought innovations that were planned for Hungary. In the first practice, he only had these new parts Charles Leclerc, because at Sebastian Vettl it was considered that they must first identify the problems from the previous race.
Nicholas latifi he only had to park his race car by the track after 30 minutes of training. It was on the radio Canadian complained that his engine had shut down. Latifs it also caused the interruption of training. Again, the question was whether he might have Mercedes engine problems? Because a week ago, his teammate had to Russell resign due to a malfunction of the Mercedes engine. It went even worse today Kevin Magnussen, team racer Haas, who did not drive due to the battery change and spent most of the training in the team garage.
Novelties have also been installed on the car at Red Bullu, it is Alex Albon received a new control unit after problems with electronics in the opening race.
