Bojan Vrbnjak
Max Verstappen got the first measurement on to Hunagoring. Team racer Red Bull was a hair faster than Valtteria Bottas in a Mercedes. But we have to take into account that the red bulls in the first training session mainly focused on the engine of the Dutchman, which he used in Silverstone and which was inspected by Honda technicians after a severe collision.
Apart from some excursions off the trail, he took care of a bigger incident Yuki tsunoda, who flew off the track in the fourth turn and crashed back into the guardrail, causing the training to be interrupted for a while.
result
After initially testing the track with the hardest tire compound, the racers wore soft race cars in the second half. Max Verstappen was with time 1: 17.555 minutes six hundredths of a second faster than Valtteria Bottas in a Mercedes. He placed third behind his teammate in third place Lewis Hamilton.
For the first three, he ranked fourth with a larger gap Carlos Sainz with Ferrari, and recorded a good tenth more Pierre Gasly from AlphaTauri in fifth place. The sixth was yesterday's celebrant (around 40 years old) Fernando Alonso in AlpineF1, just six thousandths of a second behind him in seventh place Charles Leclerc in a Ferrari. He was eighth and last with a lag of less than a second Sergio Perez, another racer Red Bulla. But they are finishing ten Lando Norris from McLaren on the ninth and Lance stroll from Aston Martin in tenth place.
Od eleventh place onwards however, the racers were classified as follows: Esteban Ocon (AlpineF1), Yuki tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), George Russell (Williams), Nicholas latifi (Williams), Mick Schumacher (Challenge), Robert Kubica (Alfa Romeo - The Pole played instead of Kimi Raikkonen), Nikita mazepin (Haas) and Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo).
Incidents
Fernando Alonso took care of the first phase of the yellow flag. Yesterday’s celebrant came in too fast fourth turn and lost control of the car. The Spaniard slid over the curbs and stopped in the excursion zone. With the exception of the destroyed tires and a small part that flew off the car, the racer AlpineF1 carried away without major consequences.
A little later, the race management had to intervene again yellow flag, because also Yuki tsunoda he lost control of his AlphaTauri. The young racer is in fast right turn took to the paved excursion zone, but the Japanese were also able to continue.
But a little later he was no longer so lucky. Good ones 15 minutes before the end training, is tsunoda spun in the fourth turn. The Japanese compared to Alonso failed to stop in front of the guardrail, leading to him being with his butt crashed into a fence and thus caused a shorter interruption training.
Technology
Also on the last race before summer break some teams have brought new parts for their race cars. While Mercedes after Silverstone he did not want to improve his own W12, is their main competitor Red Bull na RB16B installed some new features. Also McLaren has brought some minor improvements.
Pri Red Bullu however, the engineers looked at him with fear Honda engine in the back of a Verstappn race car. After a collision with Hamilton at Silverstone, the Japanese sent the engine to Sakura on detailed inspection. Honda has prepared the engine so far that it can Dutchman used in the first workout. They only had to replace the exhaust.
