2023-05-26 18:57:24
During the second free practice session on the streets of Monte Carlo, Lewis Hamilton got on the radio. The Mercedes star wanted to know where he lost the most time to the fastest, i.e. Max Verstappen.
The answer: especially in the middle part of the slope and a total of half a second. Hamilton moaned: “Damn, the car doesn’t give much more.”
The seven-time Formula 1 world champion and his stable mate George Russell warned on Thursday: “We have all these improvements here, but the fans shouldn’t expect miracles from us.”
After two hours of training on the narrow Circuit de Monaco, the 103-time GP winner Hamilton deepened: “Basically, I was able to really enjoy driving today. A big thank you to everyone at the race car factory. I know how difficult it is to design and build such an extensive update.”
«Of course Monaco is not the best place to test such improvements, Barcelona is much more suitable for that. The car felt good even though I was hoping to be a little closer to the front. The improvement is clearly noticeable, now we have to find ways and means to make more of it.”
«In the first training session I was still thinking – hey, we’re doing well! But this year we are often faster in the first practice than in the second. We’re about half a second behind, if we do everything right on Saturday we can maybe reduce that to three tenths of a second. But the others will also improve tomorrow, so it’s very difficult to say where we’ll end up.”
2. Training, Monte Carlo
01. Max Verstappen (NL), Red Bull Racing, 1:12,462 min
02. Charles Leclerc (MC), Ferrari, 1:12,527
03. Carlos Sainz (E), Ferrari, 1:12,569
04. Fernando Alonso (E), Aston Martin, 1:12.682
05. Lando Norris (GB), McLaren, 1:12.906
06. Lewis Hamilton (GB), Mercedes, 1:12,960
07. Sergio Perez (MEX), Red Bull Racing, 1:12.991
08. Valtteri Bottas (FIN), Alfa Romeo, 1:13,050
09. Pierre Gasly (F), Alpine, 1:13,089
10. Esteban Ocon (F), Alpine, 1:13,162
11. Lance Stroll (CDN), Aston Martin, 1:13,185
12. George Russell (GB), Mercedes, 1:13,191
13. Guanyu Zhou (RCH), Alfa Romeo, 1:13,354
14. Kevin Magnussen (DK), Haas, 1:13.457
15. Nico Hülkenberg (D), Haas, 1:13,520
16. Yuki Tsunoda (J), AlphaTauri, 1:13,641
17. Nyck de Vries (NL), AlphaTauri, 1:13,663
18. Oscar Piastri (AUS), McLaren, 1:13.673
19. Alex Albon (T), Williams, 1:14,217
20. Logan Sargeant (USA), Williams, 1:14,238
1. Training, Monte Carlo
01. Carlos Sainz (E), Ferrari, 1:13.372 min
02. Fernando Alonso (E), Aston Martin, 1:13.710
03. Lewis Hamilton (GB), Mercedes, 1:14,035
04. Sergio Perez (MEX), Red Bull Racing, 1:14.038
05. Charles Leclerc (MC), Ferrari, 1:14,093
06. Max Verstappen (NL), Red Bull Racing, 1:14,244
07. Lando Norris (GB), McLaren, 1:14.467
08. Esteban Ocon (F), Alpine, 1:14,585
09. Lance Stroll (CDN), Aston Martin, 1:14,653
10. Alex Albon (T), Williams, 1:14,666
11. Valtteri Bottas (FIN), Alfa Romeo, 1:14,718
12. Kevin Magnussen (DK), Haas, 1:14.725
13. Yuki Tsunoda (J), AlphaTauri, 1:14,820
14. Pierre Gasly (F), Alpine, 1:14,866
15. George Russell (GB), Mercedes, 1:15,066
16. Nyck de Vries (NL), AlphaTauri, 1:15,083
17. Oscar Piastri (AUS), McLaren, 1:15.192
18. Logan Sargeant (USA), Williams, 1:15,557
19. Guanyu Zhou (RCH), Alfa Romeo, 1:15,684
20. Nico Hülkenberg (D), Haas, 1:15,785
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