Verstappen, from a big scare with the engine in first gear

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Verstappen, from a big scare with the engine in first gear

Max Verstappen I have taken the best time in Free Practice 1 of the Austrian GP, surpassing by 0.2 to Oscar Piastri and 0.3 to Charles Leclerc. Carlos Sainz was fourth, just 0.073 of his teammate, but there are many unknowns to be resolved in Sprint Qualifying, which takes place this afternoon.

For a start. Lewis Hamilton, first for 50 minutes of the session, he did not want to set up the soft set and preferred to save the set for the rest of the weekend. His companion, Russellwas stopped by traffic in his good attempt and Lando Norris, who was improving Macx’s times, went off in the gravel in sector 2. All three will be in the bidding for the ‘minipole’ this afternoon, that’s for sure.

Ferrari seems a little further away, but they are an unpredictable team in almost everything and with a good motor map they usually win a lot when push comes to shove. They cannot be ruled out yet, especially with the heat rising on the track.

Alonso 10th

Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll They were at times closing the grid with the hard compound. At the last minute, with the soft one, Stroll got seventh, behind a surprising Oconwhile the Asturian did not have a clean return and He finished tenth, 0.918 behind Verstappen. On the shortest F1 track in terms of time, it doesn’t look like they can be in SQ3 this afternoon.

Fernando predicted that Maybe it would be “a circuit worse than Barcelona” and his intuition did not deceive him, although we still have to wait for the qualifying to check it.

Verstappen red flag!!!

Behind the first failed engine in Canada, which Honda has already said is irrecoverablethis morning planned second engine failure for Max Verstappen’s RB20. With 29 minutes left, the car began to slow and stopped on the same finish line, forcing a red flag. They looked like drama in the box, after 7 minutes they reset the systems and he was able to return to the asphalt almost immediately. False alarm.

Red Bull immediately said it had been “a minor problem, which we have recovered and for which there is no fear”.

Hamilton and Russell, start

With the harder compounds, the two Mercedes They appeared again as the best in Free Practice 1, something that has become the norm for a couple of months. Behind Verstappenwith medium at 0.3 Lewis, It seemed a little far in speed.

Things were worse for the Ferrariwith hard, but now more than half a second (Charles the sixth), while Alonso He was 17th, 1.6 seconds behind the Mercedes. It seemed like bad news at the start for both teams, after half an hour of activity.

There was a small incident between Hulkenberg and Leclerc, which the German called “llorica”. He is not the only one on the grid who thinks the same.