Bojan Vrbnjak
Max Verstappen is in Baku continued where v Monaco finished. The championship leader drove the fastest lap in time 1: 43.184 minutes and stood in front of both racers Ferrari.
Good form Red Bull Racing confirmed with fourth place Sergio Perez, Mercedes, however, quite restrained since it was Lewis Hamilton only the seventh, Valtteri Bottas on the tenth. He was just as good as well McLaren, and a regular guest of ten Pierre Gasly. Both Aston Martin out of ten, but it is worth mentioning here that so Lance stroll as well as Sebastian Vettel they did not use the softest rubber compound in the first workout.
Results
Max Verstappen in Charles Leclerc it only separated 0,043 seconds. After a good performance in Monaco, Ferrari also proved to be strong in Baku, which was proved by the third place Carlos Sainz. The second racer landed behind the first three Red Bulla Sergio Perez. It was nice to see that Daniel Ricciardo forgot about a bad weekend in Monaco as he finished fifth and we find him behind Pierre Gaslya.
Many wonder if he was Mercedes restrained in the first workout, or this track doesn’t really suit them, because Lewis Hamilton we find him only in seventh place, his teammate Valtteria Bottas but on the tenth. But both racers Mercedesa they set their times in the first half of training. He finished eighth Lando Norris, and on the ninth, the veteran swung Fernando Alonso.
Od eleventh place onwards, the racers were classified as follows: Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo), Lance stroll (Aston Martin), Yuki tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Esteban Ocon (Alpine F1), George Russell (Williams), Nicholas latifi (Williams), Mick Schumacher (Haas) and Nikita mazepin (Haas).
Technology
V Baku all eyes were on hind wings, because on this fast track, flexible specimens are even more effective. In fact, for Baku, all the teams have installed on the race cars special wing variants for high speeds. Have instances for Baku actually less bent, this was not visible on the television footage, but it is FIA with special stickers the team warned to control them.
Pri Red Bullu however, the focus was not only on the rear wing, as the red bulls are on the race car Sergio Pereza also tested different configurations front wing.
Incidents
As is customary for Baku, we already saw a lot of campaigns and many phases of the yellow flag at the first training. V bend 15 quite a few racers slipped in the direction of the guardrail, Lewis Hamilton in Pierre Gasly they selected an emergency exit after a braking error.
Yuki tsunoda he watched the emergency exit of the turn for a long time number 4, where he lightly touched the guardrail without damaging the car. But he had Japanese a lot of work with searching reverse gears and it was only after a long maneuver that he managed to get back on track.
Also without serious consequences the spectacular spin also ended Lando Norris in turn number 16, where he wanted to catch as much momentum as possible for a fast stretch of track.
He also had problems with turn 16 Nikita mazepin, which failed to prevent contact with the guardrail. The Russian is just before the end of training spun and lightly collided with the rear wing into the enclosure.
Because he's on 2,2 km long section full throttle leeward even more useful, many teams experimented with different tactics. And because of setup on the track we witnessed the anger of other racers due to the resulting traffic. Max Verstappen he was angry at Esteban Ocon and even more so on Nikita Mazepina, which, in his opinion, did not give enough space.
