In the afternoon session at Le Castellet the Spaniard (who will however be penalized for the change of control unit) and the Monegasque faster than the Dutch Red Bull. Then the two Mercedes. The Cavallino, which used a modified fund, is in a good position for qualifying
by the correspondent Giusto Ferronato
– le castellet (france)
A beautiful Ferrari also in the second free practice session of the French GP. Carlos Sainz (1’32 “527) and Charles Leclerc (1’32” 628) scored the first and second time of FP2 with red tire, the one that will be used for qualifying as the race will take place due to high temperatures in all likelihood on an alternation between medium and hard rubber. Excellent signs in view of tomorrow’s qualifying, where we will fight for a pole that on this track means a lot: from 2018, the year in which Le Castellet returned to the calendar, only those who started in front of everyone have won here. A new version of the bottom has been mounted on the F1-75 which seems to have brought excellent results.
sainz penalized
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For Ferrari this is also good news because Max Verstappen finished third with Red Bull, but complaining a lot about the understeer on his car. The Dutchman finished half a second off Sainz, who however, it should be remembered, will be penalized at the end of tomorrow’s qualifying for the change of the ECU. At the moment the penalty places on the grid are 10, but it is very likely that Ferrari will soon announce the change of the other elements of the power unit which will cost the Iberian the relegation to the bottom of the grid.
trim red bull
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Verstappen will try to fix the car in tomorrow morning’s FP3, but this afternoon in the Red Bull pits there was a lot of excitement to deal with the set-up problems reported by the world champion. Who will also have to beware of the Mercedes of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, who finished in fourth and fifth place. McLaren is confirmed with Lando Norris, sixth ahead of Gasly’s AlphaTauri and Magnussen’s Haas. Eleventh time for Fernando Alonso’s Alpine ahead of Valtteri Bottas’ Alfa Romeo. Penultimate Mick Schumacher, author of a spin in turn 11 at the beginning of the session, fortunately for him without consequences. Tomorrow at 1pm the FP3, qualifying at 4pm.
classification
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The times of FP2 in the French GP:
- Sainz (Ferrari) 1’32 “527
- Leclerc (Ferrari) 1’32 “628
- Verstappen (Red Bull-Honda) 1’33 ” 077
- Russell (Mercedes) 1’33 “291
- Hamilton (Mercedes) 1’33 “517
- Norris (McLaren-Mercedes) 1’33 “607
- Gasly (AlphaTauri-Honda) 1’33 “906
- Magnussen (Haas-Ferrari) 1’33 “928
- Ricciardo (McLaren-Mercedes) 1’33 “984
- Perez (Red Bull-Honda) 1’34 “060
- Alonso (Alpine-Renault) 1’34 “259
- Bottas (Alfa Romeo-Ferrari) 1’34 “264
- Vettel (Aston Martin-Mercedes) 1’34 “420
- Tsunoda (AlphaTauri-Honda) 1’34 “540
- Stroll (Aston Martin-Mercedes) 1’34 “595
- Albon (Williams-Mercedes) 1’34 “653
- Zhou (Alfa Romeo-Ferrari) 1’34 “654
- Ocon (Alpine-Renault) 1’34 “660
- Schumacher (Haas-Ferrari) 1’35 “195
- Latifi (Williams-Mercedes) 1’35 “412
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