Bojan Vrbnjak
Mercedes v Monza continues where it ended in They connect: at the top! Silver arrows are also in Monza in the first free practice they showed that all paths lead past them.
He was this time Bottas the fastest, which is a circle in King's Park monze drove a good two-tenths faster than Hamilton. Third Albon he was already eight tenths of a second behind.
Both racers of the team were surprisingly fast Alpha Tauri, saj They are crying found in fourth place, Gaslya and on the sixth. Ferrari we find it outside the top ten, where it fared significantly better Leclerc in eleventh place, meanwhile Vettel found only in the penultimate place.
Results
Already the first free practice GP of Italy were marked by wind games. He drove the lap in Monza the fastest Valtteri Bottas namely in time 1: 20.703 minutes and was thus a good two-tenths of a second faster than his teammate Lewis Hamilton. Behind both black silver arrows we find Alex Albon, which was eight tenths of a second behind the fastest.
For the first three, however, the first minor surprise, as he won fourth place Daniil Kvyat from the team Alpha Tauri. To make the surprise even greater, the Russian was not at all shod in the softest tire compound and achieved his time on the medium compound.
Max Verstappen, who collided in training, landed in fifth place. Dutchman is for Bottas lagged by almost a second. Behind him we find another AlphaTauri racer Pierre Gaslya, who also achieved his time on the middle mix. He finished seventh Sergio Perez from the team Racing Pointand eighth place racer McLaren Lando Norris. They finish the top ten Daniel Ricciardo from Renault and another McLaren racer Carlos Sainz, who was a good second behind Bottas.
Od eleventh place onwards, the racers were classified as follows: Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), Esteban Ocon (Renault), Lance stroll (RacingPoint), Romain Grosjean, Kevin Magnussen (both Haas), Antonio Giovinazzi, Kimi Raikkonen (both Alfa Romeo), Roy nissany (Williams - instead of Russell), Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) and Nicholas latifi (Williams).
Incidents
It's after a good half hour Max Verstappen in the right turn of the fast chicane Ascari veered off the track and turned in the direction of the exit from the bend and crashed through a small sand barrier into protective fence. Fortunately, it is Dutchman collided head-on into the fence so that only the front wings fell off. With a damaged nose of the race car, he returned to the pits, where the mechanics determined that the suspensions had not suffered any injuries. But he's probably having it rotating over the curb damaged the bottom of the car. Because of this case, training was interrupted for four minutes.
The other racers, however,satisfied”With numerous excursions from the trail, mostly in both slow chicanes Prima Variants in Variants of Roggia. Only Pierre Gasly from AlphaTauri showed minor rotation and visited a sand barrier in another chicane.
And another novelty this year: After v Parabolics previously eliminated sand barrier, this time they also removed the curbs. Instead, they have now installed it in the asphalt strips with sensors, which inform the commissioners who has violated it track restrictions. Because of this, many racers had their lap times canceled in the first practice.
