Hamilton leads his future fans and supreme equality at the top in Monza

lewis hamilton wants to shine in front of his new hobby next year, when the 7-time champion arrives at Ferrari and dons the ‘Prancing Horse’ in the chest. One of the Stevenagewhistled many times here, now applauded, and this is after winning first place in Free practice 2 of the Italian F1 GP of 2024 played this Friday afternoon.

When the thrown lap party started, McLaren he overtook his two cars Leclercsending the first notice with the theoretical favorite car. Until a few moments later, in better track conditions, Lewis Hamilton made it clear that he wanted to fight everything in this transalpine event against the ‘tifosi’. One of the Stevenage He beat Norris by just 3 thousandths in his final test, before the session was stopped due to a red flag due to a crash. Magnussen. AND Carlos Sainzwho until then was 0.145 behind Leclerc, managed to improve to third place, 0.103 behind Lewis.

However, it’s still Friday and we have to see what everyone has in store and everyone’s true potential. in qualifying when they put the maximum power of their engine, unload the car with fuel and go for it. Ferrari was there and the times still have to be taken with a pinch of salt, and the proof is that in The Top-7 is a Haas from Hülkenberg, 0.402 off the best time, behind Russell, 6th, 3 tenths away, setting his time at the end.

The battle for pole can be exciting and very close between McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari, waiting for Verstappen, on a track that Italians can dream of because of its special characteristics, minimal load and pure speed.

Mercedes used Free Practice 2 to draw a comparison between the new floor they debuted at Spa and the previous onean element that caused many doubts to the Brackley team that they wanted to resolve to find out if it was really an evolution or not.

Besides that, The race pace shown by Verstappen, the Ferraris and McLaren were equal. Uncertainty remains huge at Monza.

Verstappen and Pérez, missing

The most surprising thing was seeing the driver who took the lead in Free Practice 1, Max Verstappen, in 14th position, 0″872 off the best time. The Dutchman aborted his first attempt and was unable to make a good turn. For its part, it doesn’t help to see ‘Checo’ Pérez in the distance, 15th at 0″940. Red Bull began to suffer. However, Max Verstappen was always expected in his appointment for the pole. Hopefully the reigning champion can make the most of his car, which is difficult to drive, this Saturday in qualifying again on top.

Alonso, Top-10 misleading

The weekend started well for Aston Martin. I aim Fernando Alonso’s Monza does not have a good circuit for his car, worse than Zandvoort, and after finishing 10th at the Dutch track, he expects it to be difficult to aim for points.. And it will be.

So far, the man from Oviedo has been in that Top-10 in the first two sessions, moving up to 9th place in Free Practice 2, 0.578 off the lead.with his teammate Walk again behind, 0.625 behind the best But the 9th place was not real.

Verstappen and Pérez are behind on the timesheets and should go first, which would leave them in a hypothetical 11th place. More is also expected from Albon, who is 12th with a very fast Williams in the straight and has more race pace.

This year, Aston Martin qualified better and their race pace was very poor. We’ll have to see if history repeats itself here. For now, Alonso will be going for a Q3 that seems very difficult given how tight the grid is and how much the other rivals can improve.

Colapinto, good start

Contrary to the inaugural event of Andrea Kimi Antonelli in Free Practice at 1 am, Franco Colapintowho debuted this Friday as the new official Williams driver until the end of the season, completed a good day, from less to more, with only a small error in Free Practice 1 and a total of 20 laps completed in Free Practice 2 , with 17th place, just two tenths behind his teammate Albon.

Franco completed the planned program in Free Practice 2, without incident and drove the car home, something with Logan Sargent It is more complicated. The Argentine has had a good start in F1.