The start of the F1 2024 Emilia-Romagna GP, at Imola, was very clean. This is an important moment. Due to how difficult it is to overtake on this track, this is the opportunity to advance positions, but in the first places there are no position changes, with Max Verstappen defending his first place without trouble at the start of the Grand Prix, with Lando Norris behind.
Carlos Sainz already warned the Spanish press at Imola, along with MD, that at Imola he didn’t leave the track clean or dirty on the starting grid, so no bad starts in those first places. Carlos started well and was ready behind Norris, paired with Leclerc, to mainly catch Lando’s slipstream and thus defend himself from a possible attack by Piastri’s McLaren.
Leclerc maintained his third position with Sainz behind in fourth and Piastri in fifth.
Alonso, from the pit lane and with different tires
Fernando Alonso had to start from the 19th position on the grid and preferred to do it from the pit lane in order to change some settings on his car and thus take advantage of this race, where it is very difficult to get points from for now, to find out more about the new Aston Martin parts.
In any case, he tried a different strategy to come back. Along with Gasly, he was the only one to put soft rubber at the start. And he chose to stop on lap 7 to have clean air with hard tires and try the hardest thing: extend that stop with the option of going to the end without stopping or taking advantage of a ‘safety car’ to take advantage this. and change tires for free to win positions.
Source: La Verdad
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