With the Ferrari known for its extraordinary low tyre degradation characteristics, coupled with Red Bull’s issues, particularly with Perez, France could well be a diasaster for the team based on Friday. I think there is some work to do tonight to understand it, and we will try to make the best of it for tomorrow’s qualifying and race,” concluded Sergio Perez. “Clearly I’m not very comfortable at the moment with the car. “We’re a little bit behind, I had a little problem with one of the anti-roll bars but nothing major,” said the Red Bull driver, “I didn’t get to use the soft tyres much but hopefully tomorrow we can do what we need to do to be in the fight.” He said he had a problem with his car that did not allow him to get representative results. The Mexican finished sixth in EL1 and tenth in EL2, 1.5 seconds behind the leader. Team-mate Sergio Perez faced a difficult start to the weekend. “Overall, this track is very hard on the tyres anyway, so I think you can’t compare it to Austria, but I think in general we all need a few more laps to really get a good view of the long run.” On the subject of tyre degradation, Max Verstappen is unsure whether it is as bad as it was in Austria. But of course we know that we still have some work to do,” said the Dutch driver. “On the long stints it’s a little bit better but again, the tyres really heat up and it’s very difficult to really judge where you are. So we’ll look at all that for tomorrow and of course try to be closer than we were today.” In the 70s and 80s, it was considered one of Formula 1s most exciting and dangerous circuits due to the elevation changes, fast. Alongside F1, it also currently hosts a MotoGP race and has often done so for the DTM season.
“We just didn’t really find the balance we were hoping for, but we’re also trying a few things with the car. The Red Bull Ring, as its now known, is located in the small city of Spielberg, surrounded by the Styrian mountains. “I think that the second session was a bit more difficult for us,” said the current championship leader. Verstappen finished third, more than half a second behind Carlos Sainz.
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Potential disaster coming for Red Bull?īoth free practice sessions on Friday were good for the Ferraris, with Charles Leclerc setting the fastest time in the first session ahead of Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz topping the second session just ahead of his team-mate. Her attention will be solely devoted on Lawson now, though, who has a valuable opportunity to impress Red Bull chiefs with a solid Spa showing as F1 returns from the summer break for the second half of the 2022 season.Max Verstappen said after Friday’s second Formula 1 practice session at Le Castellet that he had found free practice very difficult, while Sergio Perez had problems and finished the second session in tenth place. Whether that's a nod to three-time world champion Nelson remains to be seen, but Charlotte is a big animal lover, having a section of her Instagram dedicated to them and running her own page for her pet. When she's not by his side, the law student is kept company by her dog, who's aptly named Piquet. Should Lawson get an F1 seat next year? Let us know in the comments section.Ĭharlotte is also from New Zealand and studies law (Image: often follows her beau around the world to different race tracks and visited Red Bull's base in Milton Keynes with him last year. And such is his passion that he raced in both Formula 2 and DTM in 2021. Racing has been all he's known since he started karting at the age of seven.
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He took part in the Young Driver Test at the end of last season and is Red Bull's reserve driver. READ MORE: Daniel Ricciardo goes 'official' with stunning daughter of ex-McLaren and Ferrari starĪlthough New Zealand haven't got a rich history of producing F1 drivers, Lawson seems destined to get a shot at some point in the not too distant future. So in a Formula 1 car is gonna be incredible." "I honestly couldn’t think of a better place to do it, there’s going to be a very exciting feeling - historic track and a place that I’ve always enjoyed driving. "Super excited to say I’ll be doing my first FP1 this weekend at Spa," he told the team's media after getting fitted in Pierre Gasly's car. After three-and-a-half years in their junior program, he'll be driving for AlphaTauri in first practice for the Belgian Grand Prix. The 20-year-old has been ahead of the game all the way through his journey to the pinnacle of the sport, hence why Red Bull Racing snapped him up back in 2019 on his 17th birthday. Liam Lawson is set to make his Formula One race weekend debut today in the next step of his young yet impressive career to date.
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