The Mexican finished 11th in Free Practice 2 of the Canadian GP

Posted On: July 12, 2022

the Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), leader of the Formula 1 World Championship, which had already played the first, was again the fastest this Friday during the second free practice of the Grand Prix of Canada, the ninth of the World Cup; which takes place on the Gilles Villeneuve circuit in Montreal, where he entered the clock just ahead of the two Ferraris, the Monegasque Charles Leclerc and the Spaniard Carlos Sainz.

Sergio “Checo” Perez He did not have a good afternoon in Montreal, since in free practice 1 he was in fourth position and in the second free practice he moved up to 11th place.

In the best of his 32 laps – one more than the two Ferraris gave – Verstappen covered the 4,316 meters of the Canadian track in one minute, 14 seconds and 127 thousandths, only 81 less than Leclerc; and with a 225 advantage over Sainz, who set the third fastest time of the session, like the previous ones, with the soft rubber tyre; in a repetition where the other Spaniard, the double Asturian world champion Fernando Alonso (Alpine), signed the fifth time trial; and the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) -second in the World Cup, 21 points behind his Dutch teammate-, eleventh.

Alonso, who repeated 24 times the track on which in 2006 – the year in which he revalidated the title – won one of his 32 victories in F1, set the fifth time of the session: 416 thousandths from the leader of the championship and a tenth of the time of the four-time German world champion Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), who registered fourth in the time table this Friday.

Everyone achieved their best time before simulating the race in long runs, in a session which, threatened at the end by rain that did not fall during it, ended in 25 degrees Celsius in the environment and 35 on asphalt.

‘Czech’ Perez, who, by finishing second in Azerbaijan last Sunday, signed his twentieth podium in F1 and achieved, with Mad Max’, Red Bull’s third “double” of the year, marked the eleventh time in the second session – during which the best times of the day were achieved -, after finishing fourth in the first training session.

In a session where everyone took risks, but where, except for a few “walks” and a few crusades, no notable incident was recorded, the brave pilot from Guadalajara repeated the beautiful track 28 times built on the artificial island of Notre Dame, which bathes the St. Lawrence River; and on his fastest lap he was one and 40 hundredths behind his Dutch teammate.

The third free trial It will take place this Saturday, a few hours before qualifying, which will order the start of Sunday’s race: scheduled for 70 laps, to complete a course of 305.2 kilometers.