Bojan Vrbnjak
Another free workout started again on intermediates gum, as the track was still wet. But just like in the morning, it dried up and racers were able to change their race cars to dry track tires.
Red Bullu is in the second training session of the Belgian GP in Spa-Francorchamps managed to push out of the top Mercedes. Because Max Verstappen drove the fastest lap time before Valtteri Bottas in Lewis Hamilton, but the silver arrows seem to have their own the real potential of hiding, as they did not go hunting for time on the softest tire compound. Nevertheless, the difference between the first three was very small, practically less than a tenth of a second.
We were witnesses too two interruptions training, and the culprits were Charles Leclerc in Max Verstappen. After the collision, the Dutchman did not continue training.
result
In the second free practice, the hunt for the best time was initially quite restrained. It wasn’t until the second half that the teams set out to hunt for the best time on a soft rubber compound. In doing so, he achieved the fastest time Max Verstappen namely 1: 44.472 minutes.
He was with that Dutchman four hundredths faster than Valtteria Bottas and for seven hundredths about his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, which reached their times significantly earlier on the middle tire compound and did not show their speed on the red-rimmed tires.
He was the first follower of the fastest trio Fernando Alonso, which was less than half a second behind. A good hundredth for the team racer AlipneF1 found in fifth place Pierre Gaslya in AlphaTauri. He finished sixth with seven tenths of a second behind Lance stroll in Aston Martin, and seventh place went to Esteban Ocon in the second AlpineF1 race car, which was a good eight tenths of a second behind.
He won eighth place Sebastian Vettel in Aston Martin, which was three hundredths of a second behind Ocon. He was ninth Lando Norris at McLaren, which is a good nine tenths of a second behind Verstappn and is finishing the top ten Sergio Perez, who is behind a teammate Verstappen lagged also a good nine tenths of a second, but on a medium tire mix. Mexican has also officially extended its contract with Red Bullom for the season 2022.
Od eleventh place onwards however, the racers were classified as follows: Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), Yuki tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo), Kimi Raikkonen (AlphaTauri), Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), Nicholas latifi (Williams), George Russell (Williams), Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), Nikita mazepin (Haas) and Mick Schumacher (Haas).
Incidents
The start of training was calm, but despite the large excursion zones, the Spa racetrack later claimed its victims. In the hunt for the fastest lap time, he first showed off his track spinning skills Esteban Ocon namely at the beginning of the section Fagnes. Team racer AlpineF1 he managed to calm down his race car and was able to continue his ride, albeit on completely destroyed tires.
Charles Leclerc however, his mistake in Les Combes paid significantly more expensive. Such as Or with lost the rear of the car while accelerating. Unlike the Frenchman, he managed to prevent a spin, but he slipped off the track and ended up in protective fences. The management of the race decided to stop training.
Two minutes before the end, the Monaco exercise was repeated by the leader Max Verstappen. In the seventh turn, he lost control of his car and crashed backwards into the protective fence. The rear right suspension was badly damaged, but that’s the least of his worries. He may be much more afraid of it gearbox. Training was interrupted again, and resumption no longer followed.
