UPDATE 08.10. Carlos Sainz only received a reprimand from the judges. There will be no penalties. This is the first reprimand of the season for the Spaniard, the fifth will trigger a penalty.
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Carlos Sainz dictated the law in free practice 1 of the Australian GP 2022, third stage of the F1 World Championship which takes place on the semi-urban circuit of Melbourne. The Ferrari driver exalted himself on the renewed Albert Park track, where the Circus returned after three years of absence, and was the only man to go under the wall of 1’20 “ in the opening session of this busy weekend. The Spaniard clocked 1: 19.806, quickly finding an excellent feeling with the track and starting the fine tuning of his car in the best possible way.
Carlos Sainz even trimmed half a second behind his teammate Charles Leclerc and he also convinced on the race pace with the hard tire. However, the standard bearer of the Scuderia di Maranello is ended up under investigation and risks a penalty, possibly to be discounted on the starting grid of Sunday’s race. The son of art could be punished for an episode that occurred in the first part of the session: at the last corner, in fact, Carlos Sainz could have hindered Guanyu Zhou. The Chinese of the Alfa Romeo accused the Ferrari driver of having committed a impeding.
F1, Australian GP 2022. Carlos Sainz missile, Ferrari first and second in FP1!
The Spaniard must hope that the race officials do not recognize an actual infringement or that in any case they do not consider it so harmful towards Zhou., which in any case does not seem to have had any actual damage due to the maneuver of Carlos Sainz. A decision could be made before free practice 2, scheduled to start at 08.00 Italian time. Qualifying is scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday 9 April, 08.00). The maximum risk for the Spaniard seems to be that of a relegation of three positions on the starting grid.
Foto: LiveMedia/Antonin Vincent/DPPI
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