Fernando Alonso didn’t get off to the best start F1 Singapore GP. The Asturian driver suffered a gearbox problem that prevented him from completing the planned work, with the new floor leading to Marina Bay the team Alpine in their two cars. The Asturian was 10th despite not being able to ride in the final minutes and looked comfortable from the start on the tough and tough Asian track. The Spaniard is one of the few riders who did not test the first qualifying simulation with the soft rubber, in order to have confidence in this rubber on a track that still needs to improve its performance as the sessions continue, and especially when the night Singapore with the free 2.
Right from the start, what Alonso said the other day to the media has come true. “There are drivers who need more time, they need to study more data, they need all Fridays to study and compare with their colleagues and gradually take small steps until they 100% ready for qualifying.. And there are others who are 100% in FP1. I will look forward to FP1 tomorrow: in the first five minutes of the session you can see that Max is 2.5 seconds ahead of everyone. They will slowly come back and then in qualifying they will be close to him. It happens somehow on a small scale also between my teammates sometimes,” commented the driver. Said and done, in the first minutes Verstappen was determined to move to the front and Fernando followed him in second position.
However, those lap times will still not be representative due to the huge track improvements and the changes in the settings of the various cars. Lewis Hamilton led the session by setting his time later than the others, but clarified that his time Mercedes is approaching the head. Good news for F1 is to see that English, with a Mercedes who from the beginning of the course suffered mainly from a turn with many problems to put the tires at the right temperature, that in this FP1 he set a competitive time that allowed him to lead a turn using soft rubber.
Verstappen, second and Leclerc, 3rd
The second position went to Max Verstappenwhich is 84 thousandths from English with a red bull who immediately made it clear that he would give it his all at this track, in search of Max’s 12th win in 17 races this season. Leclerc finished third, at 0″402 and Pérez was fourth at 0″806.
In theory, Singapore should be a very good track for Ferrari qualities, so we have to wait for FP2 and Free Practice on Saturday to draw a more concrete conclusion. Hungary was also supposed to be an ideal track for Ferrari, but there Red Bull’s best tire breakdown saw Max crush the Italians.
We have to see if ferrari it makes it difficult for his opponents here gp. For now, Leclerc’s third place must be added to the 6th position of sainz.
The man from Madrid had a delicate start to the session. He pointed out to his team that they needed to apply the change to the settings they had planned in the previous meeting and suffered oversteer. It became clear in turn 5 where he saved the impact with the wall thanks to a good counter steering wheel.
Walk, on the wall; Perez, transmission problem
He couldn’t stop Lance at that point take a walk, which brought out the red flag exactly as the two Red Bulls were setting their soft rubber times. Their times were put on the table but the session was stopped, something that complicated the direct comparison of rhythms between the candidates for victory. In its part, Czech PerezWhat Alonsowas unable to ride in the final minutes due to transmission problems in his Red Bull.
Source: La Verdad
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