Max Verstappen The weekend during which he can be proclaimed quadruple world champion did not start off on the right foot. He Las Vegas Grand Prix of Formula 1 aims to be a puzzle for Red Bullwho put his seventeenth and nineteenth pilots –Czech Pérez– in the Free 2while the Spaniards had heads and tails. On the one hand, Carlos Sainz finished fourth with good race pace, while Fernando Alonso fell to fourteenth place.
Lewis Hamilton reclaimed the strength of Mercedes by once again setting the best time in the second free practice session, with only 11 thousandths ahead of the British Lando Norris. During his penultimate race with Mercedes before saying goodbye and leaving Ferrarithe seven-time world champion achieved a time of 1:33.825, very similar to that of his compatriot, second, and which marks a fifteen position gap compared to the Dutchman, who did not even use the soft tires.
For his part, Sainz finished almost three tenths behind Hamilton, while Alonso finished fourteenth in a session in which many brakes were locked up again. Aston Martinecaused, in large part, by the asphalt of the game city, even colder than during the first session. Between this situation and the bad grip, no one was spared from making an excursion into the loopholes of the circuit, especially in turn fourteen, after the long straight, in which many drivers were unable to control their car.
The Thai man could not drive his vehicle either. Alexandre Albonwho finished last and without being able to take to the track in the last minutes of the session due to a problem with a car which stopped suddenly and forced the momentary raising of a red flag twenty minutes from the end of the race.
Red Bull suffers in Las Vegas
Even if Verstappen can ensure this weekend the World of the drivers, whether he beats Norris, whether he equalizes him or whether he only loses two points compared to him, the reality is that he did not even test the soft tires and had more than two seconds late on the head of the session, an anomaly in which is your competitive gene. And the session was dominated from start to finish by Mercedes. Briton George Russell first set the best time of the weekend so far, falling below the 1.35 mark.
While engineers were busy modifying the configuration of Alonso’s Aston Martin, with so many twists and turns that it was impossible to drive, Charles Leclerc He placed first and Sainz third, demonstrating the strength that Ferrari also has at this circuit.
But Mercedes started to pull again and, although Norris slipped to second, he could do nothing to stop the pace of the seven-time world champion, who with his time of 1:33.825 led this second session, the last this Friday. European Championship organized Thursday evening in Las Vegas.
