Good start to the weekend for the Red that goes in front of Red Bull with the Spaniard’s car
It is from the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz the best time of the first free practice session of the Hungarian GP, the thirteenth round of the F1 world championship. The Spaniard, who lapped in 1: 18.750, precedes the world champion’s Red Bull in the chronometric standings Max Verstappen and the F1-75 of his box mate Charles Leclerc. Fourth time for a brilliant McLaren’s Norriswhile Russell closes the top 5 of the session eight tenths from Sainz.
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Not a bad start for Ferrari, which opened the first session of the Hungarian GP at the Hungaroring in Budapest by sandwiching Max Verstappen’s Red Bull. The best time of FP1 is marked by the F1-75 of Carlos Sainzwho in 1: 18.750 precedes the Dutchman by 130 thousandths and his boxmate by 289 Charles Leclerc, who closely follows the world champion and world leader. After many laps on the track, Ferrari also carves out a space to simulate the race pace by shining again on this occasion, with Sainz and Leclerc who have begun to take measures in view of what will be Sunday.
Behind Ferrari and Red Bull, in this first part of Friday, a brilliant McLaren driven by Lando Norris. Fourth time for the British driver, followed by his compatriot Russell in Mercedes that precedes the other Red Bull’s Perez, in difficulty in the session. The Mexican, in fact, in addition to running with more than eight tenths of a disadvantage on Sainz, at the start of FP1 was also the victim of a heavy allergic attack complete with a “call” in the pits in full crisis.
The top 10 of the session is then closed by Hamilton (last driver under the second behind Sainz’s F1-75), followed by Ricciardo, Ocon e Alonso, who turns 41 today. The man of the weekend, that Vettel who yesterday announced his retirement at the end of the season, finished 11th in front of his box mate Stroll. Both Alpha Tauri disappoint once again, with gasly e Tsunoda that do not go beyond the 13th and 14th time ahead of Zhou e Albon.
The three motorized Ferraris of Magnussen, Schumacher e Kubica (replacing Bottas) and Williams’s Latif.
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