Verstappen left everyone speechless

In case of doubt, Max Verstappen ended with any rennet question. Razed. The Dutchman is a plane in Free Practice 3. A rocket. The current world champion, in the garden of his greatest rival, Lewis Hamiltonscared of all with unexpected superiority behind the wheel of a red bull clearly superior to others in the very fast curve of Silverstone. On this track, last year he left by ambulance to the hospital after seeing how Lewis had kicked him off the track. And this year he was determined to come out smelly Champagne. red bull apparently there were problems on Friday, but there was a big improvement in the set up and increasing power compared to free 2the number ‘1’ led his ally Perez (at 0 “410) and displacement Leclerc (3rd) to 0 “447. So, Verstappen He presented himself to the world as the great favorite for pole position this afternoon (4:00 pm / DAZN F1). Only the rain seemed to be able to sculpt the sun to open the door to the other riders.

But the worst for ferrari it’s not as fast as it used to be Verstappen. This is to see how easy it is for the Dutchmen to make things. It doesn’t seem to have suffered even an iota on a circuit where red cars were among those that suffered the most rebounds (‘porpoising’) in fast corners. Comparing to Copsea curve made at 280 km/h, is disgusting. ferrari it bounces hard, and it’s more like a car than a Carlos Sainz on the 6th. “The problems with high-speed corners related to the rebound are still the same as yesterday,” said Sainz, who revealed something of great concern for Ferrari. Meanwhile, the red bull he traced it carefully, as if he had a walk outside. And between the two, Mercedes clarified that she had overcome her enormous problem of ‘pouring‘at the start of the campaign, passed a very smooth rebound, making it a real danger in Ferrari’s eyes.

The question is whether Mercedes He will be able to solve in the moment of truth his problem at the beginning of the course of heating the tires in one turn, one of his big weaknesses. If confirmed, Russellwhich is 4th, and hamilton5th, they can fight to get between red bull and the ferrari in qualifying this Saturday. And if they do, watch out for them on Sunday because the pace of their races has always been good since the start of the season. not as much as red bullbut we can witness the beginning of the possible return of Mercedes on a track that amplifies all its strength.

In the seventh position is Norris and in the eighth he did so bootswith the Mike Schumacher in the ninth and Fernando Alonso on the 10th, with his partner Or included on the 11th. The Spaniard spent more time than expected in the pits and he eventually came out to roll with the old rubber, without giving as many turn cues as his other opponents. Apparently, according to ‘Marca’, the pontoons are losing efficiency in passing turns as they blow and it remains to be seen if the team decides to keep them for the rest of the weekend. So far, Alonso is back to the old pontoon spec in Free Practice 3.

Expected more than Alpine after improvements made to the floor and pontoons, but we need to see what happens in qualifying this afternoon. The man from Oviedo had to fight again to get into the top 10 in a very tight central zone. And if it rains, Fernando knows he will still have a chance to shine.