Bojan Vrbnjak
Third free practice, who serves as a general for the afternoon qualifiers, fell into the water. Orgy of spins from Friday’s first practice was exceeded. Rain is today in conjunction with new asphalt surface took care of the scenes, which were partly reminiscent of a rally - Finnish, for example, on ice.
Still in Saturday night the organizers have tried to improve traction on the track as they are with rented cars drove down the track. But their efforts were not rewarded, as today’s rain reconciled all the tire applied by passenger cars. First, the racers went to the track with tires intermediates, but soon after they had to change into rain tires.
Especially authoritative the results of today’s third training they are not. He was the fastest again Max Verstappen, who found himself best with these conditions. He took his time on the light rain tires at the start of training 1: 48.485 minutes and was almost a second faster than Charles Leclerc. Third Alex Albon however, he was one and a half seconds behind his teammate. How little representative today's times are is shown by the time hole that has formed behind the Thai.
Esteban Ocon fell behind in fourth place 5,4 seconds, Lando Norris but a tenth more. Sixth Sebastian Vettel he had a backlog 6 seconds, seventh Sergio Perez and 7 seconds. Valtteri Bottas, who drove only four laps, was just under two tenths behind the Mexican, the Haas racer Kevin Magnussen and for a further two. He is tenth with a gap 8,3 seconds brought Lance stroll.
Od eleventh place onwards, the racers were classified as follows: Daniel Ricciardo, Carlos Sainz, Antonio Giovinazzi, Pierre Gasly, Romain Grosjean, Kimi Raikkonen, Daniil Kvyat, which is for Verstappen lagged behind by more than 20 seconds. Last three racers - George Russell, Nicholas Latifi in Lewis Hamilton - but she didn't take the lap on time.
Although it wasn’t a big vehicle, we could see a lot drifting and spinning. All the racers struggled with track conditions and occasionally exceed the grip limits. Great excursion zones they made sure that the rotations did not have major consequences. Le Antonio Giovinazzi he “kissed” the guardrail with his front wing.
They took care of a few more campaigns Charles Leclerc in Esteban Ocon. The young Monaco wanted to pass the Frenchman at the end of a long plane, but he overestimated himself in terms of the level of grip or he calculated that he would Or with more widely withdrawn. Leclerc he spun in turn 12 Ozone, but fortunately they were both able to continue without major problems.
We also witnessed excitement in the pits. Young Lando Norris he complained that the team did not inform him about the traffic in the pits, as he almost collided with Sergio Perez.
Are qualifications at risk?
It will depend on what the weather will be like 13 p.m. after our time. Meteorologists otherwise count on less likely to rain, but even if there is no extra rain, dry track racers cannot expect it. However, many experts believe that qualifications it will not be possible to perform under these conditions. Basically no one would object to wet qualifications, but what happened in the third practice no longer has much to do with Formula 1.
