Lando Norris, second in the Formula 1 World Cup, was the fastest in the Free Training Day on Friday of the Italy GP, ahead of Monegasco Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) and the Spanish Carlos Sainz (Williams), while Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) did not pass from the low zone.
Norris, after a first session with the hidden McLaren, could connect a good round with the soft tire and marked a 1: 19,878. At the end of the second session, Leclerc also confirmed that Ferrari wants to give war in his house circuit, only 83 thousandths of the British. And Sainz, third also to less than a tenth, reaffirmed the step forward of Williams, who trust that this route gives them a necessary joy.
Only ten minutes after the clock started running, a red flag, after a track exit that made him quickly return to the box, he avoided a start of this session. After the brief passage through the ‘Pit Lane’, it was Charles Leclerc the first to go down to 1:20 with the hard ones, but the fight for the best chrono before change to soft rubber was between Verstappen and Sainz, being the Madrid who took the cat to the water with a 1: 20,583.
The McLaren, in the first contact of Oscar Piastri with Monza this year, it was also difficult to meet in this second session, with a couple of worrying exits and scares, far from the head times. Until, with the red line tires, Norris took a step forward and put his car Papaya in front for the first time going down seven tenths of Sainz’s time, which in his first attempt was third behind Nico Hülkenberg, in the same tenth.
But the Ferrari also appeared on time, and Hamilton approached Norris, with a great lap, just a tenth, but the fight for the front stalls was very hot; And Sainz did not throw the towel. In a new attempt, from less to more, the Madrid improved the eight -time world champion and got second, stuck to Norris.
Aston Martin suffers again
While Sainz and Williams did very well, Alonso and Aston Martin cost them much more. The team of the green cars, it was not easy to find the point to the soft tire, with the Asturian pilot continuously looking for that perfect turn that did not finish arriving. Therefore, both the Spanish, which was 15, and the Canadian Lance Stroll, 13th, ended in the low zone.
There were no more changes with long batches in the final stretch of a second session, with Piastri, Hamilton and Verstappen near that ‘top 3’, while the first ten places were formed Silver ‘very covered and far from their best performance.
Ferrari dominated the first free
In the morning, Hamilton led Ferrari’s double, ahead of his partner, Charles Leclerc, second and Carlos Sainz, third, while Fernando Alonso was ninth. Ferrari’s veteran pilot waited for the final stretch to make the best time of the first free session in Monza, with a 1: 20,117, only one tenth better than Leclerc, winner in front of the ‘typhosi’ in 2024. Behind, a Sainz that showed that this route is talisman, completing the ‘top 3’ to half second of the best Ferrari, and only a few thousandth Dutch Max Verstappen, fourth.
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