Bojan Vrbnjak
It's behind us third free practice US Grand Prix, general of afternoon qualifications (late evening in our country). The racers waited a long time before heading to the track. At the beginning of the training, it was announced that the engine would be replaced for the qualifications as well Fernando Alonsoso that the racer will AlpineF1 on Sunday to start joining Sebastian Vettl in George Russell.
Sergio Perez was the fastest in the third free practice of the U.S. Grand Prix. Mexican c Red Bullu was faster than surprisingly strong Carlos Sainz in Ferrari in second place and teammate Max Verstappen in third place. The latter would be in first place and second Lewis Hamilton, and both violated track restrictions, causing their best lap times to be erased.
Anyway they were not the only ones, because this time we were real witnesses floods of erasing times rounds by the Commissioners, so the end result of this training is slightly skewed. But we definitely have a tense fight for it the best starting places. In doing so, it is important to note that Lewis until his fast and swept lap time he was struggling, and many racers also mentioned a stronger wind.
result
After that Sergio Perez got yesterday's second free practice, he repeated this exercise today at the general qualifiers. He is Mexican with time 1: 34.701 minutes on soft tires he drove the fastest track in Austin. But like I said, he has to give thanks like that Hamilton feces Verstappen, who did not adhere to the track limit. He reached the second and legal best time Carlos Sainz in a Ferrari that was a tenth of a second behind Perez. The third was, as already said Max Verstappen, who was a good two tenths of a second behind his teammate.
He was fourth Lando Norris at McLaren, which was three hundredths of a second slower than Verstappn, and an additional four hundredths of a second behind in fifth place Valtteri Bottas in a Mercedes. His teammate Lewis Hamilton he was more than half a second behind Perez. He had a tenth more in seventh place Daniel Ricciardo in McLarn, and a few hundredths more in eighth place Pierre Gasly in AlphaTauri. He was ninth Charles Leclerc in a Ferrari, which is the last racer to be less than a second behind, finishing in the top ten Esteban Ocon in Alpine F1.
Od eleventh place onwards, the racers were classified as follows: Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), George Russell (Williams), Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), Nicholas latifi (Williams), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo), Lance stroll (Aston Martin), Fernando Alonso (AlpineF1), Yuki tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Mick Schumacher (Haas) and Nikita mazepin (Haas). The latter is the only racer who has not completed a fast lap - at least a legal one.
Incidents
Valtteri Bottas he took care of the first spin after half of training when he lost his backside in the fifth turn and completely destroyed a set of soft tires. A little later, he took care of the yellow flags George Russell, which spun in the fifth turn.
In general, however, the racers had problems with track restrictions, as the commissioners erased the lap times of many racers and thus made sure that the result of the third training session did not correspond exactly to the actual situation.
