Bojan Vrbnjak
Max Verstappen in Red Bull they do not give up. The Dutchman was also in his first free practice GP of Austria the fastest, and thus indicated that he intended very seriously to fulfill his boss's prediction Helmut Markto be able to win two wins in two home races.
Otherwise, today's first training took place entirely in the sign tire testing. Especially in the first part, the teams took the time to test new Pirelli tires, which will be used from the race in Silverstone. Each racer was given two sets and had to drive at least 12 rounds.
Many racers took advantage of this in their first practice. The fastest times, however, were achieved on the soft mixture. Nevertheless, it is difficult to assess power ratio the first training session, where there were many trips off the track, especially in the first and third turns.
Results
Max Verstappen he finished his first practice where he was in the last race GP of Styria namely in the first place. The Dutchman is a circle Red Bull Ringa drove the fastest in time 1: 05.143 minutes. Both racers followed the Dutchman Ferrari namely Charles Leclerc, which was just under three tenths of a second behind, and two hundredths more Carlos Sainz.
In fourth place we find Valtteria Bottas, which was two hundredths of a second behind, and a good three hundredths more in fifth place Yuki tsunoda. Sixth was a veteran with a good four tenths of a second behind Kimi Raikkonenand the seventh is the current champion Lewis Hamilton with a good half a second behind.
The British today not everything went according to plan, mostly he had a lot to say over the tires. Right behind the racer Mercedesa we find Sergio Pereza, which reached the same time as Pierre Gasly, but as a rule, whoever reaches the mentioned time first is in front of the competitor. He caught tenth place Lando Norris.
Od eleventh place onwards however, the racers were classified as follows: Esteban Ocon (AlpineF1), Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), Lance stroll (Aston Martin), Guanyu-Zhou (AlpineF1), Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Callum ilott (Alfa Romeo), Mick Schumacher (Challenge), Roy nissany (Williams), Nicholas latifi (Williams) and Nikita mazepin (Haas).
Incidents
Trips from the trail began Yuki tsunoda, who came out on the sand on the way out of the fourth turn with his left wheels and with great difficulty broke through the sand barrier back onto the track. Then the first one followed a spectacular trip off the track Lance Stroll, who drove a little too wide at the exit of the sixth turn and turned across the track, his crazy ride however, it ended on the grass just before the inner part of the seventh turn. Stroll he was able to take it to the pits without difficulty.
Later, however, he had a young man Canadian good luck when he spun in the first turn and landed just inches in front of the guardrail. As soon as he pressed the gas after leaving the pits, his ass, the racer, was taken away. Aston Martin it spun into the excursion zone and as said stopped just in front of the fence. Even in this case, the son of the team owner was able to continue driving.
Almost catastrophic but it ended misunderstanding with Nikito Mazepin in Kimi Raikkonen. The Finn was in a fast lap when he ran into him on the penultimate turn Mazepina, who turned into the pits. The Russian was driving so slowly that the Finn had to speed up at high speed deftly bend and in doing so, he almost lost control of his car.
mazepin was later involved in another tricky situation. Racer Haas was again very slow on the way and apparently did not look in Rearview Mirrorto see him approaching him at great speed Lewis Hamilton. It was only at the last moment that the Russian noticed The British and prevented a collision by driving straight into the excursion price of the third turn.
Three test racers
At the first training GP of Austria they performed three test racers team. For Williams the Israelite reappeared Roy nissany, who took over the car George Russell. At Alfa Romeo however, he completed his second free Formula 1 training session in his career - after Portugal Callum ilott, which replaced by Antonio Giovinazzi.
Of course, today's first free practice will be the most memorable Guanyu-Zhou, who is on the team AlpineF1 took over the race car of his role model Fernanda Alonso. The Chinese finished training well 14. place and was only four tenths of a second slower than Esteban Ocon.
