Charles Leclerc leads Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen during the final practice of Silverstone
Ferrari pilot, Charles Leclerc, exceeded the time leaves during the last training session on Saturday for the British Grand Prix, paving the McLaren Rival Oscar Piastri and the Verstappen of Red Bull – while recruits Gabriel Bortoleto and Ollie Bearman have undergone late accidents.
After a brilliant and hot first day in Silverstone, surmounted by Lando Norris, preferred to the house, cloudy and cooler conditions welcomed the FP3 pilots, which gave them a chance of more modifying their cars before the qualification time in the middle of the afternoon.
When the session started at a slightly delayed time of 1135, the drivers have gradually sank on the right track to start their programs and assess the conditions – the soft, medium and hard tires of Pirelli are all used in the first minutes.
Lewis Hamilton was one of the first movers when the action started, putting on a set of flexible tires and blocking a 1m 26.529s to contain the provisional place P1, which caused numerous acclamations of the packaged tribune and the banks of lawn around the track.
In accordance with Friday’s race, there were significant gusts of wind for Hamilton and the rest of the drivers to manage – apparently highlighted when Lance was walking who derived from Luffield’s hair pin and completely prevented his Aston Martin from turning.
Kimi Antonelli also pointed out a “massive moment” through the Maggotts and Becketts complex when he started to push, when there was a drama for Alex Albon when he faced Aston Martin slow at the entrance to Copse and swore by the radio to express his frustration.
Regarding the times on the turn, Leclerc used soft tires to descend to a 1m 25.922 and succeed his teammate Hamilton in P1, a few tenths of more than one maximum more competitive Verstappen, which has nevertheless complained of braking bias difficulties.
“A little rain,” said Leclerc on the radio with about 20 minutes, but it was far from being enough to prevent drivers from pumping towers on Slicks and making improvements – George Russell proving it when he set up in second position.
With some 15 minutes to play, Norris returned the crowd again again by going the fastest to a 25.606 1m, followed closely by Verstappen and his teammate Piastri via similar gains, before Leclerc fired in a 25.498 to recover P1.
Hamilton was also on a quick tour at this stage, hitting the bundle of sector 2 of 0.074 s of Leclerc, only so that the red flag was thrown for debris on the right track – which means that it had to abandon the effort. “We believe that bodywork could be yours,” was the later message to Haas Driver Bearman.
The session resumed with a few minutes, but was soon interrupted when Gabriel Bortoleto lost control of her Sauber kick through the above -mentioned Maggotts / Becketts scales, rebounded on the grass and ended in the gravel with damage caused by the suspension.
This meant that Leclerc found himself the fastest on Piastri, Verstappen and Norris, with Yuki Tsunoda one fifth encouraging for Red Bull, Bearman taking sixth despite another moment late when he misjudged his entry track and damaged his front wing, and Albon putting Williams in the best positions.
Russell was the fastest of the Mercedes cars of a weekend so difficult for the Arrows Silver, placing eighth on the racing bulls of Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson, Hamilton and the other Williams and Haas of Carlos Sainz and Esteban Ocon.
Then Antonelli in the 14th, while the saubers of Nico Hulkenberg and Bortoleto as well as the Aston Martins and Alpines spoke of the back – Fernando Alonso ranking in front of Franco Colapinto, Stroll and Pierre Gasly.
