Saudi Arabia has matched the shots in Formula 1, with Up to 16 pilots in less than a second: In the first free session in Jeddah, Pierre Gasly has given the surprise, surpassing Lando Norris for only seven thousandths, and with Charles Leclerc completing the podium at 70 hundredths. For Carlos Sainz there has also been good news, because It has finished seventh, ahead of the Red Bull and Lewis Hamiltonalthough behind his teammate, Alex Albon, while Fernando Alonso has been fourteenth.
The reality, however, is that the first training of the fourth test of the season have been Little representative of what will be seen in qualification and careeron a faster track for the softer range of the tires that Pirelli has brought corniche.
Without much margin for probatures, every minute counts to add mileage in a circuit where Looking for limits and walls is key to finding time and rhythm. And the pilots, after the initial shyness, did so, although without serious incidents, except some blocked or exit without danger.
As in the other four major awards, The McLaren started strong with the tire Middle, but it was the English George Russell (Mercedes) who climbed to the top and remained there during the first 20 minutes with a 1: 29,674. Until Williams decided to place the soft tires and started the qualification simulations.
The British of the silver arrows did not improve his time too despite riding the tires of the red line, and Gasly surprised with that 1: 29,239 that no one else exceededfollowed by Norris (+0.007) and Leclerc (+0.070), with three positions that no longer moved in the rest of the session.
The Williams improved, above the two Red Bull and a Max Verstappen that ended ninth and very uncomfortable with its carwhich seems that it does not give the necessary tools to fight ahead. Your partner, Yuki Tsunoda, almost calculated the time of the Dutchin a clear sample that ‘Mad Max’ does not go through his best moment.
Nor was it the day of Hamilton, ninth in the same tenth as Sainzalthough the cars of the energy drink brand. Meanwhile, the Australian Oscar Piastri (McLaren), winner in Bahrain, was fourth, just a tenth of the Gasly chrono.
