After last year's skating rink GP of Turkey, the path Istanbul Park Circuit this time showed in significantly better condition. But that will be possible during the racing weekend changed, as showers are forecast for both tomorrow and Sunday.
He got his first workout Lewis Hamilton and this with a new engine with internal combustion, which will cost him after the qualifications ten additional places. The Mercedes racer broke the track record he set in 2005 with the fastest lap in about seven tenths of a second. Juan Pablo Montoya.
result
British is its fastest record time measuring track 5,338 kilometers, took to 1: 24.178 minutes. With that, he was four tenths of a second faster than Max Verstappen in white Red Bullu. Like the other racers, both main candidates for this year's title tested in the first training session. the softest mixture gum. The Dutchman and his Mexican teammate complained about strong understeer.
He placed third Charles Leclerc with a Ferrari, and behind it we find Valtteria Bottas in another Mercedes. He is in fifth place Carlos Sainz confirmed Scuderia’s good form and finished sixth Esteban Ocon in AlpineF1. He is in seventh place Lando Norris at McLarn already more than a second behind. Just behind him, he placed eighth Pierre Gasly with AlphaTauri. But they are finishing ten Fernando Alonso in Sergio Perez.
Od eleventh place onwards however, the racers ranked as follows: George Russell (Williams), Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo), Nicholas latifi (Williams), Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), Lance stroll (Aston Martin), Yuki tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Mick Schumacher (Haas) and Nikita mazepin (Haas).
Technical department
In addition Lewis Hamilton the new engine also received Carlos Sainz, where they are at Ferrari The Spaniard replaced the entire drive unit, which means he will have to start Sunday’s race from scratch.
Incidents
In the first workout except a few braking errors, there was no noteworthy incident.
