Bojan Vrbnjak
The first free practice is behind us GP of Spain on the track Circuit of Barcelona-Catalonia in front of the gates of the Catalan capital. The Spanish racetrack was considered in the past measure of power ratio throughout the season and the venue where the teams brought theirs the first major improvement packages. Also this time, many made an effort and upgraded their race car, which also did some weight loss treatment.
Are they Ferrari updates fallen on fertile ground, it is difficult to say after the first training, especially considering that the top could be occupied by a car Red Bull Racing, where Max had to drive in the last sector slalom through traffic jam colleagues from other teams. Also Red Bull is here with improvements, so we have an exciting racing weekend ahead of us. The biggest changes, however, we could see on Aston Martin, who brought to Barcelona B-version, which already takes care of raised eyebrows and amazement, as it strongly resembles RB18 teams Red Bull.
result
Everyone best times racers were reached at soft mixtures tires. Charles Leclerc was with time 1: 19.828 minutes just under eight hundredths faster than a teammate Carlos Sainz. Third Max Verstappen it was already more than three tenths behind, but it would probably have had almost as many advantages if it had not encountered the aforementioned traffic jam in the latter sector. In fourth place we find George Russell, which was two tenths faster than Fernanda Alonso in fifth place.
He finished sixth Lewis Hamilton with a minimal lag behind the Spaniard, and seventh place belonged Land Norrisu, which was the first to lag behind by more than a second, specifically: 1,45 seconds. He was eighth Pierre Gasly, a good tenth for Norrisand ten is completed by the ninth Daniel Ricciardo and the tenth Yuki tsunoda. From eleventh place onwards, the racers were classified as follows: Esteban Or with, Lance Stroll, Robert Kubica,Kevin Magnussen, Mick Schumacher, Sebastian Hag, Valtteri Bottas, Nyck de Vries, Nicholas Latifs and Juri VIPs.
Incidents
The first training took place almost no incidents. After all, this is not surprising, as the racers run this track they know by heart. They took care of the only serious incident two veterans, a former teammate Fernando Alonso in Lewis Hamilton. The latter was in his fast lap, a team racer Alpine but he was in his way, so he had to British drive with left wheels on the grass. Commissioners will deal with this case after training.
At that time, they will also appear in defense Juri vips in George Russell. Because Red Bullov a young man who took over the race car today Sergio Pereza, was in the way of the racer Mercedesa, who complained over the radio that he had to break his fast lap.
Technology
V Barcelona all eyes were on Aston Martin. The team brought the bigger one to the sixth race of the season improvement package, which would be no surprise if their AMR22B in terms of side crates he would not be like a twin brother Red Bullto this RB18. Of course, the FIA has already taken this matter under scrutiny and found no violations of the rules. As for the improvement on the track,green Red Bullu”Was not detected.
Two newcomers
Rules prescribes that each team must at least this year two workouts to use a young racer. This time, the two teams decided to do it Williams in Red Bull. In the latter, he raced instead of Perez Juri vips and took last place, but we must understand that the young man was probably the happiestthat the car was intact, which was its main task.
Pri Williams it is Albon replaced De Vries and also the Dutchman was a tenth faster than Latifia, whose seat is honestly shaken by all the denials. Pri Alfa Romeo however, it is instead of this year’s rookie Guanyu Zhou performed Robert Kubica, who, of course, is not a young racer, but the Pole brings to the team coffers a large pile of sponsorship funds of the Polish oil company orlen.
