Marko Hanželic
Happening in Spielberg continued today with another free practice he opened Romain Grosjean (Haas), and after a while he drove onto the track Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo). Renault did not make an effort in FP1, but announced that they would closely monitor the developments in other garages, as tomorrow's qualifiers could even fall off due to storms, and the results of the second free practice could also be used to determine the starting places. Shortly afterwards, they were in a completely different position, as they found themselves in the safety fence of the excursion zone of bend 9. Daniel Ricciardo.
Australian he looked quite shocked after the collision, but he reported to the pits that everything was fine with him, and nevertheless he was taken to the medical center, where he will be examined in detail. Meanwhile, the yellow-blacks will have a lot of work to do to fix it his RS20and the security guards along the track are at red flag need to check the functionality of the safety fence.
After the break, many racers sensed that it might be time for qualifying laps, and it became increasingly clear that he had Max Verstappen problems with the power of Honda's six-cylinder, which he also made clear by radio.
Then he spun Albon, who entered the bend too quickly, spun, but was slowed down by the curbs, so major damage other than the radiated tires on the car, Tajec did not do. After a few names were exchanged at the top, he struck again Sergio Perez and with a time of 1: 03,877 reliably took the lead. Racing Point RP20 is, according to the Mexican, the best race car he has ever driven.
Even at Mercedes, where they have been quite tactical up to this point, decided to take a simulation of the qualifying round and Valtteri Bottas he skipped Perez by just under two tenths, then overtook them both Verstappen, in which they apparently managed to solve the problem of power loss. A quarter of an hour before the end, he spun again Albon, who took away the whole skin this time as well, but in the end he was eight tenths of a second behind his teammate and took seventh place.
By the end of the training, things have not changed significantly, but they will definitely be among the racers who want tomorrow's qualifications so Lewis Hamilton, who apparently failed to find the right settings today and finished in sixth place as did both Ferrari racers. Charles Leclerc finished in ninth place, Sebastian Vettel he ended up occupying only sixteen.
We'll see how it goes tomorrow over time, but it would definitely be interesting to see the above order as well at the start of Sunday’s race. It would definitely be very interesting. What do you think?
