Valtteri Bottas got today’s general of the afternoon qualifiers Grand Prix of Italy in Monza. Surprisingly, both racers followed him McLaren namely Carlos Sainz in Lando Norris, Lewis Hamilton however, we find it only in fifth place for Daniel Ricciard and before Max Verstappn.
All the final hunt for the best time round was interrupted by the red flag phase, which makes it necessary to take the time table of the third free practice with with some caution. The new qualification rules have taken care of great anger and dissatisfaction, Hamilton but he avoided a horrible collision. Ferrari this time in both racers out of the top ten.
result
Valtteri Bottas he drove the fastest lap in time 1: 20.089 minutes and was thus a good two-tenths of a second faster than Calosa Sainz at McLarn. He finished behind his teammate by an additional tenth of a second Lando Norris. Both racers McLaren they drove their fast laps before the break. The same goes for Daniel Ricciard, who was with Renault just seven thousandths of a second behind Norris.
Za Lewis Hamilton is so after chaotic end third practice and after a brief shock left only fifth place, two hundredths of a second behind the Australian. The current champion was less than two hundredths of a second faster than Max Verstappen in sixth place. Behind him we find his teammate Alex Albon, he was eighth Esteban Ocon, and the top ten is completed by both racers Racing Point namely Lance stroll on the ninth and Sergio Perez in tenth place.
Od eleventh place onwards, the racers were classified as follows: Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), Pierre Gasly, Daniil Kvyat (both AlphaTauri), Romain Grosjean (Challenge), Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari), Kevin Magnussen (Challenge), Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), George Russell, Nicholas latifi (both Williams) and Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo). The latter is the only racer to be two seconds behind Bottas.
Incidents
Out of fear that it could be this year repeated the qualifying stalemate from last season, is the director of racing FIA's Michael Masi carefully explained the rules. It's been Friday zigzag ride to prevent overtaking is prohibited, and from today onwards, racers must also adhere to a certain maximum time.
Still, it's on third free practice unpleasant cases occurred again. “Are you sure everyone is sticking to the prescribed times? They are very slow on their heating circuits,”He complained over the radio Charles Leclerc, which, however, is only a few seconds alone spectacularly stood in the way competitor's race car. Because in the middle Parabolics blocked Lando Norris, but immediately apologized to him from the cockpit.
It's later Leclerc bentil over the new rules. “With this delta-time it is more dangerous than without it.“Towards the end of the training there was really a lot going on dangerous situationswhen Hamilton approaching at full speed Parabolics and he has to avoid two race cars and got rid of his hair in front by running into a protective fence.
Technology
Za Daniel Ricciard the third workout ended just seconds after he took his personal best time. Australian has communicated via radio that he has problems and he had to drive his own car because of it park by the track. Training was interrupted nine minutes before the end so they could be removed Renault race car from the inside of the turn Lesmahagow. These are Italians quickly passed so that the race leadership relaxed again three minutes before the end of training.