After the meeting organized by teams and drivers with Stefano Domenicali and Mohamed ben Sulayem, held to make a decision on the continuation of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prixthe parties involved have agreed to regularly carry out the next sessions scheduled on the track of Jeddah. The latter, 20 km away from the Aramco refinery hit by a missile launched by the Houthi rebels during PL1, saw the reigning champion Max Verstappen always close to Charles Leclerc, leader of the standings in both sessions on Friday.
The Dutchman of Red Bull has in fact closed at 2nd place both in the sunlight and at the Saudi sunset, just over a tenth behind the Monegasque Ferrari in both tests. The number 1, eager and charged to leave Sakhir’s bitter retirement behind, analyzed his activity on the track, not hiding a personal disappointment for the track layout, slightly modified compared to last season: “The sessions went pretty well today – he has declared ‘Mad Max’ – we have completed our program and tried many different tire sets. It seems that Ferrari is proving to be competitive again, and we still have some work to do to reach them, but we have a margin. The track looks more or less the same last year, the barriers shifted slightly e in terms of visibility, this package of changes did not have a noticeable impact. In view of the qualifications – he concluded – we still have to analyze some data, but we will see how it goes tomorrow ”.
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