On June 28th, Beijing time, the first day of practice for the F1 Austrian station came to an end at the Red Bull Ring. Hamilton and Leclerc took first place in two practice sessions each. Among them, accidents occurred frequently in the second practice, and red flags were shown twice during the game...
The first free practice session
started the first practice, and Verstappen, who was playing at home, took the lead to appear and start the system installation test circle. Sainz, who performed well in the previous race, made his first effective lap of the weekend. Subsequently, Vettel achieved a time of 1:07.780, moving into second place, 0.495 seconds behind the leader Gasly. Both drivers were using yellow medium tires. Immediately afterwards, Gasly further improved his score to 1:06.385.
After 20 minutes of practice, Vettel and Leclerc of Ferrari team are temporarily ranked first and second. The two drivers of the Mercedes team had just left the pit area. Slow-motion replay showed that Magnussen went wide during the corner and ran off the track.
With about an hour left in practice, Verstappen set the fastest lap time of 1:06.100, moving into first place, but it was only less than 0.1 seconds faster than the two Ferraris behind him. Verstappen continued to set the fastest lap, and Hamilton also achieved a personal fastest time of 1:06.010, temporarily ranking second.
It was almost halfway through the first practice, and the drivers all put on brand new tires and hit the track again. Verstappen continued to lead, followed by the two Mercedes. Leclerc then used yellow medium tires to achieve the fastest lap time of 1:05.409, moving into first place. Bottas and Vettel made mistakes on the track one after another.
At the last moment of practice, Hulkenberg's 's racing car hit the road shoulder, and the front wing fell off on the track. The red flag was raised during the race.
Finally, at the end of the first practice, Hamilton made the fastest lap of 1:04.838, ranking first, 0.144 seconds ahead of Vettel behind him, followed by Bottas and Leclerc. However, the fastest laps of the two Mercedes drivers were made on red soft tires, while and Ferrari were on medium tires. Verstappen, Gasly, Sainz, Ricciardo, Magnussen and Norris ranked fifth to tenth.
The final results of the first practice
The second free practice session
The second practice officially started, and the two drivers of the Haas team were the first to come out to do the results. Stroll went too wide when cornering, and a piece of debris fell off the front wing. Then Giovinazzi also made the same mistake... One, McLaren's Norris and Sainz followed closely behind. Gasly went wide at the corner, drove onto the gravel, and then "mowed" all the way back to the track.
The second practice lasted for half an hour. Bottas of the Mercedes team ranked first in 1:05.417, teammate Hamilton was temporarily second, 0.112 seconds behind, and the two Ferrari drivers ranked third and fourth.
red flag! Verstappen, who was racing at home, lost control of his car and skidded when cornering, hit the protective wall, and the entire rear wing was destroyed!
There are about 50 minutes left in the race. The race resumes, and the drivers basically use red soft tires to score results.
Bottas crashes! Also going too far when cornering, the car lost control and entered the gravel road and hit the wall. The damage was very serious, and the red flag was raised again!
There are about 35 minutes left in the second practice, and the game returns to normal again. Vettel staged another thrilling scene, but fortunately there was no collision this time. Drivers of the three major teams had "accidents" one after another...
At the same time, Leclerc achieved the fastest lap time of 1:05.086, rising to first place. 0.331 seconds ahead of Bottas, who had crashed before, with Gasly third, Hamilton fourth and Sainz fifth. The slow-motion replay showed that Raikkonen also grew larger on the track and pressed onto the road shoulder.
In the last ten minutes of the second practice, Sainz also went for a walk on the gravel ground. Leclerc almost collided with Giovinazzi.
The clock was stopped in the second practice. Due to numerous accidents, Leclerc took the lead in the end. Bottas crashed but still ranked second, Gasly third, and Hamilton fourth, but his fastest result was achieved on hard tires. Sainz was fifth; Grosjean, Raikkonen, Vettel, Verstappen and Norris ranked sixth to tenth.
second practice final result
