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US GP, FP1: The first free practice in Austin was won by Valtteri BOTTAS

Valtteri Bottas was the fastest in the first fingerprint of the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. The Mercedes racer was faster to learn than teammate Lewis Hamilton, the third was Max Verstappen, who in Red Bullu lagged by almost a second.

Miss Formula 1 returned to the popular after a one-year absence due to last year's race cancellation, which was caused by the coronavirus pandemic Austin in Texas, which will be the next venue hot duel for the title of champion med Max Verstappn in Lewis Hamilton.

But do weeks, when this duel was supposed to flare up, he was first on the schedule today free training, which is a hair in front of a teammate Lewis Hamilton got Valtteri Bottas, which also got a new internal combustion engine here in Austin - already the third out of the allowed amount. Two Mercedesa was convincing before Max Verstappn in third place.

Lewis Hamilton is a hair behind teammate Bottaso, but the Briton can be happy with the fact that he was almost a second faster than the main contender for the title in Red Bullu.

They also showed good form in the first training session Ferrari, which with McLarn fights for third place in the construction championship. Among the ten, we also find both racers of the team Alfa Romeo, which is at that time the main topic of debates related to a possible takeover by Michael Andretti. He took care of a moment of joy at Aston Martin Sebastian Vettel, who would have finished in fourth place with his time, but drove a little too wide in the ninth turn and the commissioners time deleted.

result

Bottas it took only one attempt on the soft tire compound to drive the circuit of the racetrack in Austin and that over time 1: 34.874 minutes. After several attempts, Hamilton fell behind his teammate just under five hundredths seconds. Max Verstappen he also needed several attempts, a Mercedes he couldn’t get close, moreover, he was almost a second behind worrying, although it is only free training.

Max Verstappen was third, but his lag behind the Mercedes duo can be worrying, as he was almost a second behind - training up or down.

Both racers qualified for the top three Ferrari, but with a lag of about a second and a half. Charles Leclerc he was just under two tenths of a second faster than his teammate Carlos Sainz. With an additional tenth of a second more, he fell behind in sixth place Pierre Gasly in AlphaTauri, and was seventh Sergio Perez, whose lag was just under two seconds. He was eighth in his lag area Lando Norris at McLaren, and the top ten is completed by both Alfa Romeo racers Antonio Giovinazzi in Kimi Raikkonen.

Od eleventh place onwards however, the racers were classified as follows: George Russell (Williams), Esteban Ocon (AlpineF1), Lance stroll (Aston Martin), Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Fernando Alonso (AlpineF1), Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), Nicholas latifi (Williams), Yuki tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Mick Schumacher (Haas) and Nikita mazepin (Haas). The latter lagged behind Bottas 7,3 seconds, after teammate Mick 3,4 seconds.

Results of the first free practice of the US Grand Prix

Incidents

Already after the bad ones three minutes training has already been interrupted. Fernando Alonso he stopped in the excursion zone of the twelfth turn as the engine bothered him. The team instructed him to stop immediately, as the engine made strange noises, and on top of that losing fluid. After ten minutes, training resumed.

He then spun into the sand Charles Leclerc namely in the sixth turn when he lost the rear of the car, but he did Monachan rescued the sand traps himself and drove back to the track. In the hunt for his best lap time, he spun as well Nikita mazepin and you destroyed the tires, and the Russian also destroyed the fast lap Gaslya, which was the fastest in the first sector at the time.

Fernando Alonso took care of the interruption of training after just under three minutes, as the team stopped their race car, which gave strange voices and lost fluid.

In the final stage, we witnessed a misunderstanding between Perez in Schumacher in the twelfth turn. The Mexican was approaching at full throttle, and the German did not count on an overtaking maneuver. There was a turn in the turn itself slight collision, which ended without any consequences for both of them, as they both continued driving. Shortly before the end of the training, the veteran showed his knowledge of spinning Kimi Raikkonen.     

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BOTTAS will also get a new ENGINE in AUSTIN and therefore 5 PLACE penalties

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