2023-07-08 12:42:04
EFE July 8, 2023, 08:28 Reading: 3 min.
Max Verstappen (Red Bull), outstanding leader of the World Cup, registered eighth in the time table and Leclerc led the third training session.
The Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) was the fastest this Saturday in the third and last free practice for the British Grand Prixthe tenth of Formula One World Cup, at the English circuit of Silverstone, where the Spanish Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) set the third time of a session that started dry and ended in wet conditions; and his compatriot Carlos Sainz (Ferrari)winner a year ago on this track, the sixth.
In the best of his 24 laps, Leclerc he covered the 5,891 meters of the English track in one minute, 27 seconds and 419 thousandths, 172 less than the surprising Thai Alex Albon (Williams) and with 365 over the Asturian double world champion; Like the previous ones, he completed his good attempt on the soft tyre. That, before he started to rain, moment from which no one improved his time; reason why the Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull), outstanding leader of the world, registered eighth in the time table; and his partner the Mexican Sergio Perez -second, at 81 points-, who, like him, marked his time with the medium compound, fourteenth.
Alonso -which, with six podiums in the first nine races, is third in the World Championship, 98 points behind ‘Mad Max’- repeated the layout of the historic circuit 17 times where he achieved two of his 32 F1 victories (2006 and 2011); and in his best attempt, he was just over three tenths and a half behind Sainz’s teammate; in a session in which following the second half hour it began to rain, so that in the end everyone ended up using the intermediate tyre, without improving the times set with thirty minutes to go.
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Sainz, who last year achieved at Silverstone his so far only victory in the premier class, in which he has 15 podiums, he did 21 laps on the track of his great success; and in the best of them he stopped the clock at 545 thousandths of the time of his Monegasque colleague, who starred, already with the wet asphalt, in the anecdote of the test, when he spun at the finish line entry curve, the eighteenth of 18 o’clock in the NorthThamptonshire track.
Verstappen, who had led the two time tables on Friday, had to settle for an unusual place for him: eighth; to 847 thousandths of Leclerc; from which he stayed a little less than a second and a half ‘Czech‘, who, like his teammate, did 19 laps in the last session and registered fourteenth on the timing list.
The qualification will be disputed later.
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