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Mercedes driver George Russell continued to show good performance, setting the fastest time in the second testing session of the Sakhir Grand Prix, the penultimate round of the 2020 Formula 1 season.
While Russell participates in his first tour with the Mercedes team, passing from the Williams team, after the seven world champion Lewis Hamilton was unable to participate in the Sakhir tour due to his infection with the Corona virus.
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From the start of the first test session, Russell performed well, scoring the fastest time on the outside track of the Bahrain International Circuit.
In the second test session, Russell continued to excel as the Brit managed to score 54.713 seconds, ensuring that the second test session finished first, while his colleague Valtteri Bottas was only 11th, due to his lack of timing. with soft tires.
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Where Bottas scored a time on the soft tires, which was retired due to his course deviations in turn eight, after which the Finn could not complete a clean lap, and therefore his best timing was the one he scored on the tires. tough, with 55,321s in 11th place, it should be noted that the preference was, in layman’s terms, for Bottas in fuel-heavy racing simulation experiments in later stages of testing.
Second place went to Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, who finished the tests 0.128 seconds behind the leader, but showed negligible speed in race simulation tests, while his colleague Alexander Albon came fifth, 0.3 seconds behind the leader. leader on a short track.
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Racing Point driver Sergio Pérez and Renault team driver Esteban Okon showed a strong level of performance throughout the tests, with great convergence between them, especially in racing simulation experiences as well, and this was reflected in his best times on record.
Pérez finished his tests in third place against Okon, with each Racing Point driver outperforming a Renault driver, with Lance Stroll and Daniel Ricardo finishing tests in seventh and eighth, respectively, between Alpha Torey’s duo Daniel Kviat and Pierre. Gasly in seventh and ninth place.
Carlos Sainz completed the top 10 in favor of the McLaren team, which had reliability problems on board their cars, with the Sainz the problems were in the gearbox, but they were relatively minor, while his colleague Lando Norris suffered a problem in the power unit and finished the tests in 17º.
The Alfa Romeo duo came in at the cusp of the top ten, with Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi in 12th and 13th places respectively, beating Haas driver Kevin Magnussen, while their teammate arrived in this round, following the absence. by Roman Grogan, Pietro Vittipaldi, in 18th place.
Every Haas driver outperformed a Williams driver, as Nicholas Latifi finished in 15th place, and his colleague, Russell’s replacement in this round, Jack Aitken finished in 19th place, with the slowest time in these tests.
As for the Ferrari team, Sebastian Vettel lost control of his car twice, slipping, once on the soft tires and once on the medium-hard tires, and did not show a good pace at all, with only 55,830 scoring in 16th place. .
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While his colleague Charles Leclerc was satisfied to complete an exploratory lap before suffering a problem with the steering axle of the car, when he went out of the lane limits and got on the side tires, causing a fracture, Leclerc returned to maintenance area and finished his experiments without recording any timing, in last place.
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