Fernando Alonso played in the stop of the day during free practice 1 of the F1 GP in Singapore. The Asturian driver once again performed magic behind the wheel of a rather complicated Aston Martin to drive, avoiding hitting the wall after the car skidded after stepping on the pavement. magic He still had to pull one more trick out of his hat to avoid finding himself pinned against the wall at the start of the Grand Prix.
To prevent his training from ending, Alonso had to turn his steering wheel 180 degreesaccidentally pressing all the buttons on the steering wheel and setting off all the team alarms because one of them was the pit lane entrance: “Just to check, did you press the pit lane entry button? “Was it on purpose?” they asked him over the radio from the wall.
He 14 He was in the mood to answer his engineer after signing one of the stops of the year and not hitting the wall. Alonso touched all the buttons on the steering wheel to see if he could avoid crashing after the car left the rear and spun: “To avoid a collision with this car… I pressed the buttons“All the buttons in the car!” commented the Spaniard, twelfth on the first day of training.
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Alonso, ahead of Verstappen
Lando Norris was fastest on the first day of free practice for the Singapore Grand Prix, round 18 of the Formula One World Championship, ahead of Monaco’s Charles Leclerc, while Spaniards Carlos Sainz and Fernando Alonso finished third and twelfth respectively. Although The big surprise was achieved by Max Verstappen who finished fifteenth..
After a first session where Leclerc took the lead, Norris set a spectacular time of 1:30.727 in a heat which earned him the free seconds, 58 thousandths ahead of Ferrari. Sainz, as in the opening session, finished third, six tenths behind the dominator on the Marina Bay street circuit.
Meanwhile, Japan’s Yuki Tsunoda finished fourth, just ahead of the winner in Baku, Australia’s Oscar Piastri. Oceanic Daniel Ricciardo, Britain’s George Russell, Mexico’s Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez, Thailand’s Alex Albon and Germany’s Nico Hulkenberg completed the top 10, which he did not enter. Alonsowho could not repeat the ninth place of the first free practice and was twelfth, one second behind Norris.
Both cars experienced numerous other emergencies. Red Bullwith the Mexican Sergio Perez eighth to eight tenths and with the current champion, the Dutch Max Verstappenfifteenth. In the first session, Charles Leclerc established himself as the great dominator ahead of Norris, who arrives in Singapore ready to reduce the 59-point lead in the general classification that separates him from the leader, Verstappen.
On the Asian track, where Sainz was crowned in 2023, McLarenwhich in Baku materialized the surprise about Red Bull In the Constructors’ World Championship, he had to deal with problems at the start of this session. Piastri had to go through the garages to solve the problems with his left wheel, which had blocked during the pit stop rehearsals; Ten minutes later, the mechanics corrected the fault and the Australian returned to the track.
