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Unsurprisingly, the weather on Saturday was also pleasant for the circus racing field, which tfor the first time in its history, he is a guest in Mugello, Italy.
The weekend so far has been about Valtteri Bottas, who was also the fastest in two free practice sessions on Friday, and also did not give up in the last training session on Saturday: The Finn closed the lead with a time of 1 minute 16.530 seconds.
It seems that Mercedes’ business at Mugello can be made very difficult by Max Verstappen, like the Dutch Red Bull driver in just 17 milliseconds he was slower than Bottas.
Lewis Hamilton, who led the World Championship points race with a sure advantage, finished third, but he too suffered just 83 milliseconds from his teammate.
The Racing Point drivers also showed great form in front of the stopwatch: Lance Stroll finished fourth, Sergio Pérez sixth, and last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix winner Pierre Gasly finished with AlphaTauri.
Ferrari seems to have a good chance of scoring points in its 1000th race: Charles Leclerc finished in seventh place In the third practice, however, Sebastian Vettel was only 18 with a delay of 1.6 seconds.
In the top 10, Daniil Kvyat and Romain Grosjean remain closed.
The McLaren and Renault drivers did not blink much as neither of them made it into the top 10. However, the Alfa Romeos showed relatively strong form: Antonio Giovinazzi finished 13th, while Kimi Räikkönen ran the 14th fastest time.
Raikkonen by the way anyway exactly 20 years ago, right here in Mugello, you tested a Formula 1 race car for the first time.
The worst was undoubtedly George Russell in his last training: the Briton could only do 1 installation lap with Williams, brake failures occurred to him.
A program At 3pm, with time trial training to be continue.
The result of the third free practice:
