Free training of Formula BARÉIN GP 1 They have not been good for Aston Martin. After Fernando Alonso The steering wheel was out of line and his team announced that they were going to make changes to the car management system, the Asturian has signed the fifteenth position. It does not seem that there will be great improvement in Sakhir, where it aims to be far from the Q3 for the classification session. The Asturian has been a second slower than in 2023 with his AMR-25. Yes there may be options for Carlos Sainz, That has ended tenth.
The second session of the free has been dominated by McLaren. The English aspire to win this Formula 1 World Cup and are giving reasons to dream of being able to relegate Verstappen to the background. In fact, in Baréin they have occupied the first two places, with PIASTRI A tenth faster than your partner Lando Norris, leading the classification after the first three great awards. To find the Dutch you have to go down to seventh position.
Red Bull’s sensations are not the best. Verstappen He has shot eight tenths more than his greatest rivals in the World Cup, to the point that his satellite team, Racing Bulls, has placed a car ahead, with Hadjar in sixth place. Yuki Tsunoda He has not been able to move from the nineteenth position, far from his teammate.
Just behind the two McLaren pilots, who have dominated the session, has finished Russell With his Mercedes. The British has stayed half the best of Piastri, while behind him appear Leclerc and Antonelli. After Hadjar and Verstappen They appear Hamilton, Bearman and Carlos Sainz. Spanish completes the Top-10 to 1.1 seconds from the leadership.
FP2 Classification
McLaren in the Box Seat Heading into the Weekend
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The other Williams, his partner’s ALBON, He was practically calculated by Madrid’s time. He stayed seven hundredths. Lawson, Bortoleto and Doohan ended in front of Fernando Alonso, which has been a second slower than two years ago. At that time, Aston Martin was one of the dominators of the World Cup, since he was the one who shadowed Red Bull.
Alonso, a second slower in Baréin
Fernando Alonso It was a slower second in the Sakhir circuit, after free training this Friday. The Spanish pilot arrived with many doubts due to the performance his car has given in the first tests of this World Cup. He has not yet scored and, except miracle of Spanish, will still not do it in BARÉIN
The numbers do not lie and leave the British team portrayed, which has made its car a second slower than two courses, when they were the second car on the grill. They started the World Cup 2023 With several podiums from Alonso, who could even win in Montecarlo. But that is already far away. Today, Aston Martin It has one of the worst cars from the grill and be a second slower that in that course shows it.
