Max Verstappen He started stomping on F1 Mexican GP. Faced with a hobby that does not hold him in high esteem because he did not help his colleague ‘Checo’ Pérez In the fight for the runner-up position last year, the Dutchman made it clear that he doesn’t care where and for whom he drives. He didn’t care that thousands of eyes were looking at him wanting someone to win, his local driver. The Dutchman continues his business and continues to show it, again, on Hermanos Rodríguez Autodrome. The three-time F1 world champion dominated the first day of the F1 Mexican GP. He was fastest in free practice 1 and repeated in Free 2before the one Lando Norris which proved to have a McLaren very fast at Mexico.
Although the type of layout seems on paper not to favor the orange car, Lando Norris once again showed himself as the second best car after Verstappen at the start. The Englishman was 0.119 seconds off the best time, one lap behind Max, and not only that, he showed excellent race pace. So in his run on the medium rubber, with 10 laps given with that compound, he got a low 1’23 while their direct rivals were running a second worse on the same rubber and a same number of turns.
However, it’s only Friday and everything can change from one day to the next. The teams, on a very difficult circuit for engines, can save a lot of potential by using their old Friday engines, in addition to cheating by loading fuel and other elements.
Strange to see Lewis Hamilton 11th in Free Practice 1 and 7th in Free Practice 2 with Mercedes. The ‘silver arrow’ improved a lot in Austin and everything seems to indicate that in Mexico, both Hamilton and Lewis will have enough weapons to aim for the second best car, even to get close to Verstappen. however, or they hid a lot and this Saturday they want to be behind Max again in qualifyingor things don’t start well for the star.
Sainz, 11th
For now, The fight behind Máx was very tight. AND Carlos Sainz, who was lackluster on day one, should have the car to be in that battle. But it should improve.
In Free Practice 1 he suffered a hydraulic problem that took several hours and in Free Practice 2 the man from Madrid was unable to set a good time, 11th at 0.572, 3 tenths behind Leclerc who was 3rd. 3 tenths means at least 8 places. No one can give the slightest error in classification.
Alonso and a very expensive Q3
Hamilton finished 7th, 0.338 off the best time in a very tight time table again.. Leclerc was 3rd at 0″266, Bottas, 4th at 0″269with the Pérez 5th at 0″302, Ricciardowith AlphaTauri, 6th at 0″316 and, behind Hamilton, Ocon in eighth place at 0″391. From 1st to 16th (Gasly) there is 0″956.
The parity is huge and the Q3 will once again be very expensive. You know Fernando Alonso, who in Austin stayed out of Q3 for the first time in the entire course. He will have to work hard again after a first day where the Spanish times were tricky.
Fernando Alonso lost a lot of time in the garage in FP1 due to his rear wing getting clamped, but in FP1 he focused his work on understanding Austin’s new aerodynamic package. And in Free Practice 2, in his first turn launched on soft rubber, he spun in turn 9. Fortunately (or genius), he was able to avoid the walls at high speed.
Source: La Verdad
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