L’AlphaTauri it was one of the teams that used the PL1 of Mexico City to ‘unmark’ the obligation to give space on at least two occasions, during the entire season, to a young driver. As had happened in Belgium too, it was the New Zealander who drove the AT03 in Faenza Liam Lawson, who took over from Yuki Tsunoda. The ‘kiwi’ set the 16th time in the session, but stopped just 19 laps completed due to a technical problem that forced him to close his track activity early. “Unfortunately we had to stop for one pressure loss – explained Lawson – however, I still managed to complete most of the shift, so this problem didn’t have too much impact “.
Particularly shining in the morning session was the car of Pierre Gaslyauthor of the ninth time, who then became 10th in the afternoon when the drivers and teams had to test the Pirelli tires in the ‘version’ 2023. “It was a fantastic day – explained the Frenchman, who will drive for the Alpine next year – in PL1 I felt comfortable with the car. We know that this is a particular track because it is located at high altitude, but it is usually a suitable track for us. I had a good pace this morning – Gasly added – but we know that the center of the group is very close, so I hope that in qualifying we can fight for the top-10. We can’t draw many conclusions about the afternoon, because we don’t know the compounds we used. In general, however, I felt quite comfortable on the car, which is the most important thing “.
In the afternoon he was also back on track Yuki Tsunodaauthor of a surprising second half: “I’m quite happy after PL2 – said the Japanese – obviously they are not that representative, but I immediately felt confident in the car and I managed to do some very good laps. It was easy enough to adapt to the circuit, which I didn’t expect. I spent the beginning of the session building the pace and then I switched to the test tires. Since I skipped FP1, I have a lot of data to analyze and I saved some work to do in FP3, in order to put it all together for tomorrow’s qualifying “.
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