Carlos Sainz and Fernando Alonso They were not in Free Practice 1 yesterday at the wheel of their respective cars because in FP1 the teams took advantage of the unrepresentative track conditions to give kilometers to up to 8 unofficial drivers, including rookies Pato O’Ward (McLaren) and Philip drugovich (Aston-Martin). Jack thereson of former motorcycle champion Mick Doohan, drove Alonso’s Alpine in the first session and the Russian robert swartzmanSainz’s Ferrari. Therefore, the two will have to work hard in Free Practice 2 to get a feel for the Yas Marina track. Therefore, Carlos Sainz ensured that the second session “It was very intense after I missed the first one” because he had to focus on “getting into the rhythm as quickly as possible”.
“I felt pretty good, but there’s a lot of room for improvement. This Saturday, last qualifying of the year!”Sainz pointed out at the end of the first day.
The Spaniard finished in 6th place, but with an unrepresentative time as he had a lot of room for improvement, as he set his time on his sixth lap on soft tires due to track traffic. Sainz is 0.786 behind Verstappen’s best time and three tenths behind team-mate Leclerc, so he is confident going into Saturday. Ferrari had a worse race pace than Red Bull and had to fight to improve the set-up of his car to be competitive again at turn one, but also at race pace.
Source: La Verdad
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