Bojan Vrbnjak
Valtteri Bottas, team racer Mercedes, got the general of the afternoon qualifiers Hungarian GP. The Finn drove the fastest lap in time 1: 15.437 minutes and was four hundredths of a second faster than his teammate Lewis Hamilton. Racing Point he paid attention again, Ferrari shows a picture of improvement, Verstappen however, he was engaged in traffic.
In order for the racers to be as well prepared as possible afternoon qualifiers, put their race cars on towards the end of training soft rubber compound. In contrast to the first free practice yesterday, today’s times are significantly more rrepresentative. For two Mercedesa he ranked Sergio Perez from Racing Point and drew attention to himself again. Mexican was less than two tenths of a second behind the best time.
For the first three, we are witnessing the first a minor surprise, because Charles Leclerc is in fourth place behind the leader Bottas lagged by just under four tenths of a second. In fifth place we find Lance Stroll, which only confirmed the excellent form of the car RP20 of the Racing Point team. But young Canadian is after his colleague Perez lagged by almost half a second. Max Verstappen, who was already involved in traffic yesterday, landed on sixth place, and behind it we find Lando Norris.
He is also in eighth place Sebastian Vettel confirmed a slight upward trend in team form Ferrari, although he is behind a teammate Leclerc lagged by six tenths of a second. They finish the top ten Pierre Gasly on the ninth and Daniel Ricciardo in tenth place. The Australian is for Bottas lagged 1,07 seconds. For another attention is s 14th place took care of George Russell from Williams.
Od eleventh place onwards, the racers were ranked as follows: Carlos Sainz, Alex Albon, Esteban Ocon, George Russell, Romain Grosjean, Kevin Magnussen, Daniil Kvjat, Antonio Giovinazzi, Kimi Raikkonen and Nicholas Latifi.
Both racers Red Bull Racing they were far away from the music of the best on Friday. They both had problems with setting the car RB16. For this reason, the team decided to use one of both jokers and despite imprisonment without penalty, he recovers one race car. However, they did not do very well in training. Max Verstappen turned in the first half of training in bend 12, but was able to continue driving.
It also smoked at Mercedes. So at Bottas as well as Hamilton we noticed a slight smoke coming from the back of the silver arrow. A similar phenomenon can be found in Austria observed on the team’s race cars Racing Point. Obviously, however, there is no problem here. It's just before the end of training Latifs imitated Verstappen and also himself staged a spin in turn number 12. Just like Dutchman she is too Canadian carried away only with damaged tires.
