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Formula 1 held its first official activity on Friday at the Mugello track in Italy, and Finn Valtteri Bottas was the fastest in the first free practice of the Tuscany GP. The Mercedes driver accelerated 1m17s879 and was 0s048 faster than Max Verstappen, second classified from RBR.
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Valtteri Bottas accelerates Mercedes in the first training session at Mugello – Photo: Disclosure
On the weekend marking Ferrari’s GP 1000 in Formula 1, Charles Leclerc gave the team fans a boost amid the team’s terrible phase and moved into a good third place, ahead of the six-time champion of the world and this year’s championship leader Lewis. Hamilton. Winner of the last race at Monza, Pierre Gasly led AlphaTauri to fifth place.
The top ten, from sixth to tenth, were completed by Esteban Ocon (Renault), Daniil Kvyat (AlphaTauri), Lando Norris (McLaren), Alexander Albon (RBR) and Daniel Ricciardo (Renault).
The second free practice sessions will be played from 10 am this Friday, with live broadcast from SporTV2. The ge also tracks in real time.
Result of the first free practice sessions in Mugello – Photo: Playback / FOM
Max Verstappen was fastest in the first part of training, with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton also taking turns with him in first place. In the second part of the session, using softer tires, the Finn narrowly outscored the Dutch.
Bottas is the first to record training time for the Tuscany GP
Ferrari races this weekend for the GP 1000 in its Formula 1 career and, for this, it has a retro painting in Mugello, in reference to the first car of the team. The design has a darker red, almost wine.
Like last weekend in Monza, traffic was critical. If before the problem was the issue of positioning on the track due to the gap on the straights, at Mugello the difficult thing was that the drivers did not get out of the way of the others due to the large number of curves.
Sainz is hampered by Russell in Tuscany GP training
In the most curious incident of training, Romain Grosjean was hampered by Sergio Pérez and was irritated to the point of giving an apparently determined closure to the Mexican, who claimed not to have seen his rival on the approach to turn 1 of the Mugello circuit .
Hamilton surprises Ocon in Tuscany GP training
Another incident was when Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll were at odds at the end of training. Even Lewis Hamilton got in the way of Esteban Ocon in the middle of a curve …
Coming off its best result of the season, with Carlos Sainz Jr. second at Monza, McLaren decided to test the car’s nozzle changes at Mugello. The new front section of the Spanish car proved to be very similar to that of Mercedes and consequently that of Racing Point …
McLaren changes Sainz’s car wing in Tuscany GP training
Lando Norris once again showed his funny side by playing the singer on the radio by trying it out at the start of free practice. The English often play this kind of joke, but in Mugello the television broadcast has recovered the song of the McLaren driver.
Norris tests radio singing at Tuscany GP practice
Nicholas Latifi was the only driver who participated in the first free practice at Mugello. The Williams driver lost his car in the first sector and went the other way. However, despite having two wheels on the gravel box, the Canadian managed to get back on track.
– Photo: Infoesporte
