The benefits of the dismissal effect
Friday's free practice in Japan at Suzuka was substantially reduced to verdicts emerged in FP1 given that FP2 was characterized by rain which kept Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz, the three who had been fastest in the morning, in the pits. The times of the Red Bull drivers and the Ferrari driver were within 213 thousandths, with Leclerc sixth also behind the Mercedes for a less than brilliant first sector (the Monegasque was then very fast with the hard tires in the long run).
Carlos Sainz he started the Suzuka weekend on the right foot, confirming himself – for now – ahead of his teammate Charles Leclerc. After the Spaniard's success in Melbourne, the latter underlined in the press conference that he usually always reacted to a weekend in which Sainz was able to beat him, but the task does not seem easy at all for Leclerc.
Helmut Marko believes that at this moment Carlos Sainz is experiencing a state of grace, perhaps the best moment of the Spanish driver's career in terms of performance: “Sainz is a strong and ambitious driver who now has maximum motivation because he was fired from Ferrari and because he is recovering from appendicitis. Behind his performance there is the fact that all these factors are coming together – the words of Marko reached by oe24 – at the moment he is superior to Leclerc, who was better than Sainz in 2023.”
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