In the dry, Max Verstappen has no rival behind the wheel of a Red Bull where he flies every week, on all the circuits he treads. The rain also continues, but the water opens up a bigger window of opportunity. Anything can happen that changes the order of the grid. Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz, who will be looking to fish the turbulent river this Saturday in the F1 British GP classification, know this.
The track woke up in the sunlight, but it was all a hoax. Around 9:00 (local time) the clouds covered the British track and soon the rain greeted the thousands of attendees of the mythical English track with its presence, appearing in the middle of the short race of the Formula 3 World Championship.
The skies are warning of what’s to come: rain for Formula 1 Free Practice 3, which will prevent teams from continuing to test and improve the adjustments and balance of their single-seaters ahead of a possible dry race this Sunday. But above all, there must be rain in qualifying. This makes its outcome more uncertain.
Carlos Sainz, dry, finished 22 thousandths off Verstappen’s time yesterday. In the wet, the Dutchman is still the favorite, but in delicate conditions the hands will increase the weight and other factors such as setting the time at the right time on the track, when there is little water on the asphalt. In delicate conditions, in the last Saturdays in Monaco, Barcelona, Canada or Austria (sprint), Max Verstappen and Red Bull did not make mistakes and they always prevailed, but this does not mean that a mistake cannot come now.
That’s what Sainz holds, who is always very fast on this track. He showed it last year by scoring his first pole in F1 and his first win. He wants to repeat with pole position, although the water this Saturday is a double-edged sword for him: it may give him more options to fight for the first place on the grid, but it will prevent him to continue testing some changes in the basic configuration on the track. until Sunday after saying on Friday that his car needed to improve tire wear and race speed.
For his part, Fernando Alonso is far from dry and water can only be accepted for the Asturian. The man from Oviedo can make more of a difference in his hands and, if he seizes the opportunity, as he did in Canada, he seeks a good result in a ‘worthy’ in the water to ensure a grid position that allows him to fight with better racing weapons for a Complex podium in Sunday’s race, starting higher to try to stick to the front end and avoid having a difficult comeback.
Source: La Verdad
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