Chaos in Japan GP of F1: Alonso, in gravel, lots of grass fire and scary doohan shock

All teams are marked with red Second Free Training Session of F1 Japan GP. This is the time to draw representative conclusions for classification and career, the time of skills in which each one has to clear their doubts about the destruction of the gums in a long twist, their career rhythm and a return and refine their adjustments to finding the best performance. But all of that work was lost in a chaos -filled session, with up to 4 red flags, which prevented teams and pilots from completing their work.

Doohan As he suffered a strong accident, Alonso was stuck in gravel and had two flames in Suzuka’s dry grass. A catastrophe

Results and classification of free F1 F1 GP GP

All teams will come with more unknown to those planned until Saturday and should accumulate more work than expected in the free 3 of the next morning (4.30h Spanish Peninsular Time/Dazn) to prepare Saturday (8.00h) classification. Probably, the one with fewer concerns after the madness lived in free 2 is McLaren, excessive day dominator with his two cars.

Woking has the best car on the grill and won the first two appointments of the year (Norris in Australia and Piastri in China). They will look for the third in which another good rivalry is expected between colleagues.

Ferrari, away from McLaren in a tight grill

Lando won an FP1 where Piastri did not start well, but Australia was re -sold leading FP2 in just 49 thousand margins in a Lando who wanted to redeem himself from his mistakes two weeks ago. Certainly, they both stayed away from the crash of their car and were looking for their limitations, but once they didn’t seem to have a rival for the fight for the pole.

Ferrari stayed 4 ten -ten with Leclerc 5 with Hamilton in free 1 and the object did not improve in free 2 for Italians. It is true that there are few laps, but the sensation is that those in Maranello are far away.

Hamilton is 4 to 0 “430, with Leclerc 7 to 0” 472, Both again surprised by an RB a fact, a very fast car to a turn in which debutante Hadjar shines third in 0 “404. For his part, Lawson, dropped to RB for his bad performance in the first two races of the year with the Red Bull, felt more comfortable with FP2 with more document car and 5 -5 with RB to 0 “445, 41 thousand only one.

The sixth is Russell with the Mercedes, at 0 “453 on a super compressed grill, with little difference. Besides the two McLaren, all are in the handkerchief and every detail, every thousand, can rely on classification. And this is from the 3th (Hadjar) to 7th (Leclerc) all ended with 68 thousand differences. But the thing goes on yet: The first 12 is in the same second and From 3 to 12 (the Sauber of Hülkenberg), there are only 5 tenths.

Alonso stuck in gravel after an error

The session is messy. After a strong accident of Jack Doohan initially, if only 8 minutes later, FP2 continued 29 minutes in the future. But just 3 minutes later, he returned to the second red flag of these seconds for free for a removal of Fernando Alonso’s track.

Asturian started the day in the fight against an equal central zone, with a good position on the 7th, but in free 2 he remained without adding a lot of data for an Asturian mistake.

Alonso stepped slightly to the outer grass of curve 8. He turned the steering wheel to make a right curve, but could do nothing but leave, in gravel, where he was blocked.

Fernando was squeezing, very fast in the first sector, but he didn’t accumulate more work after that fear.

The accident that Dohan was suffering from. Apparently, in the absence of official confirmation, for a late DRSECIVATION at the end of the line. There is a more grip for the new asphalt and allows you to make the first curve slow down later, at a lot of speed, as support. And that can be explained that a late closing DRS did not provide the necessary aerodynamic grip of the rear wing in Australia so that he could draw the curve.

He became a passenger of his vehicle to hit the protections violently. He stopped the car and we had to wait for the medical examination to indicate whether he could continue to compete or if Ryo Hirakawa (reserve present in Japan and voted on FP1) replaced him with the rest of the Grand Prix after some good free 1 for the Japanese where he had passed Pierre Gasly.

Two flames in the grass

The height of the excitement came to the final side, with up to two sudden flames of the outer grass of a curve, which is said to be caused by how the grass and sparks jumped from contact with the F1 soil along the asphalt. That caused the red flag to be displayed up to two more occasions, for a total of 4 interruptions.

The last second from the end and the red flag of a second free training session ended a little, to confirm only the McLaren domain, that Ferrari and Red Bull had to improve, with doubt with Russell, who remained a tenth of McLaren in free 1. The battle for Q2 and Q3 is tight. There may be surprises.