Bojan Vrbnjak
Because it is Brazilija the third venue of this year sprint races, was the first free practice in essence general for later Sao Paulo GP qualifiers. Because after the qualifications, the rule will come Parc Ferme, the teams also looked with one eye at tomorrow's sprint race.
Lewis Hamilton he was with his Mercedes, in which the new internal combustion engine achieved the fastest lap time of the first workout GP Sao Paulo. The Briton was for around four tenths seconds faster than both racers Red Bull Racing, where he was Max Verstappen faster than Sergio Pereza. However, it should be added that je Red Bull at the time it is Mercedes attacked the best of times, opted for race simulation - most likely tomorrow's sprint.
Ferrari is significantly before McLarn, which could already mean that the team from Woking this year it was hard to win third place in the design championship since Team from race to race he shows better and better performances. Both racers of the team also showed good form AlpineF1, who found herself in striking consciences here in Brazil more because of rumors of a possible transfer Otmar Szafnauer from Aston Martin to a French manufacturer.
result
Lewis Hamilton is your fastest lap on soft mixtures gum drove away in time 1: 09.050 minutes and was three and a half tenths faster than the current leader in the championship Max Verstappen. The second racer was just under a tenth more in third place Red Bulla Sergio Perez. An additional tenth more than the Mexican was behind in fourth place Valtteri Bottas.
He was fifth in the top two in the pursuit group Pierre Gasly in AlphaTauri, who broke through in front of both Ferrari racers in the last minute of training, where he was Carlos Sainz by just under two hundredths of a second faster than a teammate Charles Leclerc. In seventh and eighth place are two more teammates from the AlpineF1 team, where he was Esteban Ocon faster than Fernanda Alonso. But both AlpineF1 racers achieved their time on medium mixture gum. He finishes ten Lance stroll at Aston Martin.
Od eleventh place onwards however, the racers were classified as follows: Yuki tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo), Lando Norris (McLaren), Mick Schumacher (Challenge), Nicholas latifi (Williams), George Russell (Williams), Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren) and Nikita mazepin (Haas).
Incidents
Due to the fact that it is the only free workout before later qualifications, the racers were understandably very disciplined and careful at the same time. The boundaries of the trail were explored without noteworthy incidents. The only thing we saw were braking errors in the first, eighth and tenth turns. Nevertheless, the training took place without a single yellow flag.
