There first free practice session of the Mexican Grand Prix turned out to be decidedly adverse to some of the young pilots summoned by their teams to take part in this appointment. Not surprisingly, the final classification of the times of PL1 presents all five new features in the last five positionswith two of them even forced to end their experience prematurely because of Technical Problems.
The best of this special group however turned out to be Liam Lawsonmember of the Red Bull Junior Team, took to the track at the wheel of theAlphaTauri in place of Yuki Tsunoda. The New Zealander, in his second participation this year after the one in Belgium in the same session, in fact finished in 16th positionbut obligatorily raising the white flag less than five minutes from the checkered flag for a power unit failure. A fast lap that was 4 tenths faster than the one recorded by Logan Sargeantfuture Williams official driver and veteran of PL1 in the United States.
The American, however, managed to do better than a more experienced profile like that of Nyck De Vrieson the track with the Mercedes and just over Jack Doohanon his absolute debut in an official Formula 1 test. The Australian, momentarily in 4th place in Formula 2, finished in penultimate position ahead of the other ‘unlucky’ of the day: Pietro Fittipaldi. The Brazilian, third driver of the Haas (and who in 2020 took the place of the injured Romain Grosjean in the last two races of the world championship), he too had to face a technical problem, contrary to what happened in Austin. Antonio Giovinazzi. The Apulian, again during PL1, had in fact lost control of his car, crashing into the barriers and subsequently damaging the clutch in an attempt to return to the pits. Fittipaldi, on the other hand, could not do anything to avoid the KO, with Haas still having to collect his second consecutive retreat in the last PL1 of the championship.
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