Verstappen dominated and Alonso was 4th in the wet before qualifying at Zandvoort

aston martinIt is necessary like the rain in May to take advantage of the third free training sessions of F1 Dutch GP to roll and roll and continue their tests, collecting basic data to know the real performance and how to optimize the new package of evolutions that will start on zandvoort and where the team has high hopes of getting back into the fight for the podium. On the first day, the green box could not complete the entire planned program for several reasons. First, because take a walk he had an engine problem in FP1 and barely ran that session. And between FP1 and FP2 there were two stops due to red flags. Because of this, they needed Free Practice 3 this Saturday, but the rain did not stop in time and Aston Martin was unable to do the important wet tests.

Of course, Fernando Alonso can interact with a track as complex as Zandvoort in the wet in the event of continued rain in qualifying and finished in an encouraging fourth position if afternoon qualifying (3:00 pm/DAZN F1) was wet. At the moment, the forecast indicates that it will continue to rain until the time of qualifying, so the ‘qualification’ can start on wet asphalt and take place in changing conditions, a context in which Alonso moves like a fish in water .

He led the common Max Verstappenwho in front of his public will look for his 28th pole position this Saturday, which will leave him just one behind a pilot as mythical as Fangio. The Dutchman wanted it to be his day, but he could start badly: when he came out of the track, on the wet asphalt, he suffered a terrible scare at turn 3. He slipped and was about to hit the wall. He narrowly saved her with his hands and also with the help of luck. A few seconds later, magnussen It raised the first red flag when it crashed at the same point, for the same reason. The difference between the two drivers is clear.

The session was not used to draw conclusions, just to acclimatize to a wet track in case those conditions were replicated in qualifying. Multiple runway exits were seen and Zhou he ended up on the gravel as the car disappeared under full throttle. liam lawson He also had a scare when he made a difficult ballot by having an exchange Riccardo after the Australian’s injury on a complicated track that was even more complicated in the wet.

In that context, Max Verstappen, after the threat, stepped on the accelerator and led by a margin, with an advantage of 0″379 over George Russell, 1 second advantage over ‘Checo’ Pérez and 1″003 over Fernando Alonso. Hamilton was 5th at 1″092, Albon was sixth at 1″119 and Piastri was 7thsurpassing Bottas (8th), Leclerc (9th) and Norris (10th). Carlos Sainz was 12th at 1″8. Ferrari needed Free Practice 3 to improve their bad feelings on the first day and test new set-up changes, but the rain prevented them from doing so and the situation does not seem to be the best for the Maranello team, which may suffer in this Grand Prix.