Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), leader Formula 1 World Championshipmarked the best time this Friday in the first free practice of the Canadian Grand Prix, which finished ninth at the Spaniards’ World Championship at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit in Montreal. carlos sainz (ferrari) Fernando Alonso (Alp) signed the second and third chrono, respectively; and fourth is his Mexican partner Sergio Pérez.
Verstappen, who has just secured his fifth victory of the season in Azerbaijan, covered 4,316 meters of the Canadian circuit in a best of 27 laps. one minute, 15 seconds and 158 thousandths246 less, Sainz also had his best time soft rubber and that he repeated the route the most in this session: 34 in total.
In 2006, when he regained his title, Alonso, who repeated the course 30 times in which he achieved one of his 32 victories in F1, set the third time of the session, but unlike the previous two, he did this with F1. medium compound. The double Asturian world champion, along with the person who signed the third double of the season for Red Bull in Baku, was 373 thousandth behind Verstappen, who was the leader with 150 points in the World Cup, with a margin of 21 points from Sergio Pérez.
Reaching the twentieth podium in Azerbaijan’s premier class, ‘Checo’, four and a half tenths behind his Dutch teammate, turned 32 times on soft tires and stopped the clock at 1:15,619; inside a session without major eventsIt ended with 27 degrees Celsius ambient and 44 degrees on asphalt.
this marked by Monegasque for the fifth time charles leclercAfter leaving Baku as the race leader for the second time this year, he is in third place in the World Cup, 34 points behind ‘Mad Max’. The pilot from the principality of the Côte d’Azur was half a second behind Verstappen, who took the World Championship lead from him in Montmeló (Barcelona). Leclerc, who signed six of the fifteen ‘poles’ counted in F1 in the first eight tests of this season, retired in Baku due to engine problems. Ferrari confirmed this Friday morning and via communication channel with media covering the World Cup, including Efe, that this engine was faulty, so they are considering whether to replace the turbo at Maranello. A change that, if eventually produced, would mean a penalty on the grid.
The second free practice will be played from 5pm (11pm on the Spanish peninsula: 21:00 GMT).
Source: Informacion
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