Carlos Sainz carried out a double quarter of work during the Formula 1 pre-season tests Thursday, the Spaniard at the top of the time after having cut the usual race distance from the Bahrain Grand Prix of 57 laps twice at the wheel of his new Williams. Sainz timed for 1 min 29.348sec for the fastest round of the middle of three, while the grid continued its preparations for the opening of the season of March 16 in Australia Lewis Hamilton, whose superb move to Ferrari set in motion from Sainz to the arrival of the pace.
In a sign that the former Sainz team seems ready to hit the ground in Melbourne, Charles Leclerc transported the other Ferrari in third with 0.083 seconds.
Hamilton cut a satisfied silhouette at a press conference after his visit, the former Mercedes man seeming to be relaxed in red.
“I really appreciate the car. Linking us slowly,” said the 40 -year -old player.
“Little by little, I’m just a little more every time. All the parameters are so different” (from the Mercedes that he had conducted since 2013) added Hamilton.
“It is not necessarily disapproving what I did before, but in a way by relearning this new way of working and the way the car likes to be driving, because it likes to be motivated differently. It is a really funny trip, learning.”
The duo of Mercedes George Russell and Kimi Antonelli then came on the shots before Aston Martin de Lance Stroll and the Red Bull of Liam Lawson with the quadruple world champion of this team Max Verstappen gave the day of leave.
“Respect each other”
A driver hoping to deny Dutch a fifth successive crown is Lando Norris of McLaren.
The finalist of the championship last year, more second and a half behind Sainz on Thursday, said that he had no beef with Verstappen after a series of clashes between the pair last season.
“I know they are going to be difficult battles and I am sure that some of them will not always end as I want or, hope, Max wants. But we run drivers, I think we get along,” the Briton told a press conference.
“We respect ourselves a lot and we are delighted with more race on the right track.”
Norris was satisfied with the projection of his team before the last day of the end of Friday.
“The car felt like last year, which is a good start,” he told Sky Sports.
“We had our right share of problems in the past to come to Bahrain, without starting the right foot, but things seem normal, which is a good start.
“Many things have changed on the car, so so that we go out and check everything, it’s a good start to the test. It doesn’t matter whether you are the first or the last day, it only only has Australia.
“You never know what people work, motor modes and things like that. For us, it’s just to check things and check a few boxes.
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