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The British Lando Norris and spanish Fernando Alonso dominated this Friday the first and second training sessions, respectively, of the Canadian Grand Prixthe ninth date of the World Cup Formula 1, on a day conditioned by rain on the Gilles Villeneuve circuit. In that context, he went through everything.
The mythical Wall of Champions was not the main problem for the pilots this time, since the weather forecast predicted what arrived from the skies of Montreal. Norris, with McLaren, had been the fastest in the first tests, developed almost completely on wet tracks. He stood out thanks to a final lap done on dry tires when track conditions improved.
The showers that followed caused minor errors by several pilots, such as Charles Leclercof Ferrari, who managed to transform his spin into a spectacular skid. In the early afternoon, a strong storm had delayed the start of the first training session by more than 20 minutes, which was then interrupted for almost 10 minutes by an accident of Chinese Zhou Guanyuof Sauberwhich hit a wall and ended up with the car badly damaged on the other side.
The Spanish Carlos Sainz and the Monegasque Leclerc had finished with their Ferraris in second and third positions, respectively. Several things were going to be modified in the second practice session, which began an hour long without it being explicitly stated that it would be on wet asphalt. In the first minutes of uncertainty, Leclerc came out with green intermediate tires, for intermediate rain, but the International Automobile Federation (FIA) interpreted that action as an irregularity and warned that it would investigate what happened.
In that round, the expected rain took almost a quarter of an hour to appear, to which Fernando Alonso he responded, leading the platoon with his Aston Martin thanks to its best lap of 1m15s810/1000. And in the middle of the session, the FIA officials went to the box Red Bull To do some checks: The target was the car of the Dutchman Max Verstappen, defender of the scepter and current leader of the championship. Some who were nearby mentioned a certain burning smell and the television broadcast showed how the team’s engineers were disassembling various parts of the lower part of the car.
Previously, the three-time champion had suffered a problem with its ERS, the energy recovery system, and had been called immediately from the box. When he arrived, the Dutchman got out of the car, those atypical movements and smells occurred and MadMax ended his participation in the round, with just four laps and in second to last place.
Also the Australian Daniel Ricciardoof R.B.; the store Lance Stroll, by Aston Martin; the danish Kevin Magnussenof haasand the American Logan Sargeantof Williams, they resorted to their driving skills to save situations of skidding and confusion. The first two even crossed a rally-style chicane, on a grass area full of water.
The drivers will have a final round of one-hour rehearsals this Saturday, at 11:30 in Argentina, before the qualification test, which will be at 3:00 p.m. The Canadian Grand Prix is broadcast on the Star+ platform.
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