Sunny. Dry. Air +26…28С, route +45…48С
The weekend in Spielberg takes place in the Saturday sprint format, when the teams have only one hour of training, in which they need to test new products, decide on a strategy and evaluate tire life. Luckily, we were lucky with the weather – it will start to rain in the evening.
Six teams at once brought novelties to Austria, hoping to collect information about their work here in order to fully use them next week at Silverstone. With each stage, the cars of other teams are becoming more and more like the Red Bull RB19.
Williams lost the first 15 minutes, but the team representative said that everything was going according to plan.
Having driven most of the session on Hard and Medium, the riders switched to Soft only in the last minutes, and even then not all of them, in order to prepare for today’s qualification.
Not without minor errors – Bottas and Alonso went off the track in the first turn, Tsunoda in the third, Hamilton in the sixth, Leclerc and Ocon in the last – without consequences for the cars.
Max Verstappen led the protocol with a lap time of 1:05.742 on the Medium.
Results of the first session
Driver Team Time Difference Laps 1. M. Verstappen Red Bull 1:05.742 – 30 2. C. Sainz Ferrari 1:05.983 +0.241 32 3. C. Leclerc Ferrari 1:06.012 +0.270 33 4. L. Hamilton Mercedes 1:06.251 +0.509 34 5. C. Perez Red Bull 1:06.262 +0.520 32 6. L. Stroll Aston Martin 1:06.340 +0.598 29 7. C. Magnussen Haas 1:06.497 +0.755 27 8. F. Alonso Aston Martin 1: 06.656 +0.914 31 9. D. Russell Mercedes 1:06.696 +0.954 28 10. G. Zhou Alfa Romeo 1:06.780 +1.038 33 11. A. Albon Williams 1:06.794 +1.052 33 12. O. Piastri McLaren 1:06 .809 +1.067 36 13. N. Kheulkenberg Haas 1: 06.846 +1.104 30 14. V. Bottas Alfa Romeo 1: 06.847 +1.105 33 15. Yu. Tsunoda Alphatauri 1: 06.985 +1.243 34 16. N.De Vriz Alphatauri 1: 07.017 +1.275 36 17. L. Sargent Williams 1:07.018 +1.276 35 18. E. Okon Alpine 1:07.202 +1.460 30 19. P. Gasley Alpine 1:07.287 +1.545 28 20. L. Norris McLaren 1:07.368 +1.62 6 20
2023-06-30 12:41:10
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