Bojan Vrbnjak
Valtteri Bottas drove the fastest lap of the first free practice GP of Portugal. The Mercedes racer is round in Portimão drove away in time 1: 19.648 minutes and was for 25 thousandths seconds faster than Max Verstappen. After the Dutchman, his teammate came in third Sergio Perez. Sebastian Vettel, on the other hand, took care of an unusual situation in the pits.
Results
Bottas took his fastest lap time to soft rubber compounds. However, he had Max Verstappen in his fast lap some trouble, yet he was 25 thousandths of a second behind the Finn. Sergio Perez he was just under two tenths of a second behind in third place. Fourth place went to Charles Leclerc, which was less than a tenth of a second faster than Lewis Hamilton.
We find it in sixth place Pierre Gaslya with AlphaTauri, and ranked closely behind him George Russell with Williams. He was eighth Lando Norris with McLarn, ninth place went to Carlos Sainz with a Ferrari and rounded up ten Esteban Ocon of AlpineF1.
From the eleventh place onwards, the racers were ranked as follows: Lance stroll (Aston Martin), Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), Yuki tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Fernando Alonso (AlpineF1), Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Callum ilott (Alfa Romeo), Mick Schumacher (Challenge), Nicholas latifi (Williams) and Nikita mazepin (Haas).
Incidents
Already at the beginning of training, he got out of the pits from the car Sainz separated a fairly large part, but what it was actually about is still unknown. But it can be Sainz did his job without difficulty. He took care of an unusual case Sebastian Vettel, who stopped in front of the wrong garage on arrival at the pits before realizing he was Aston Martin a little further on. “I was already wondering why there was no one there,”Vettel said with a smile on the radio.
For a minor misunderstanding came between Mick Schumacher and teammates Nikito Mazepin. The Russian complained over the radio why he had it Schumacher overtook. His racing engineer could only partially reassure him when he explained to him that this was a test and that he had been Mick on two fast laps. “Then you should warn me,”He responded harshly mazepin.
Who is Max Verstappen ten minutes before the end of training on the track set off with a soft mixture of tires, there was excitement The Dutchman very much. “After 300 meters, these tires vibrate as strongly as if it had been damaged."A little later, he added:"That's a real joke. Due to the vibrations, I can’t even see where I’m driving.”In a few minutes, he drove his own on this set of tires best time, but the experiment was aborted.
Technology
We could see it on the race cars many innovations. Red Bull tested a new one rebuilt bottom of the car and a new configuration of the so-called Bargeboards. Also the team AlpineF1 tested the novelty, but it was new to the French front wings.
Ilotta's first appearance
With the team Alfa Romeo, he had to Antonio Giovinazzi leave your car at the first free practice Callum Ilottu, who is the team’s second reserve racer this year. The Briton finished training in 17th place.
