The curtain falls on third free practice session in Spainstage of 2024 F1 World Championship, quite intense. The sun is shining in Catalonia and the conditions are ideal for filming. Ferrari showed excellent potential and the host, Carlos Sainzstopped the clocks at a time of 1:13.013, 0.030 ahead of the Briton Lando Norris (McLaren) and the other Monegasque Red Charles Leclerc (+0.037).
Super small gaps, as also confirmed by the Dutchman’s times Max Verstappen (Red Bull), fourth at 0.074, and the British George Russell (Mercedes) fifth at 0.151. For this reason, it promises to be a rather interesting time-attack considering the fact that Max didn’t seem as brilliant as usual, even if towards the end of this hour of practice he put things in their place a bit. Not to be underestimated then Lewis Hamiltonsixth in this session at 0.346.
Other aspects should be highlighted. Primarily, Very substantial SF-24 And Leclerc satisfied with the performance on the frontas also confirmed by the excellent simulation of the race pace. Charles will have to clarify what happened at the end of FP3 with Norrisgiven the contact that occurred between the two: Norris was proceeding very slowly in the second sector of the track and the two came into contactwith the Monegasque decidedly resentful towards his British colleague from McLaren.
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We’ll see if the Race Direction will then take action. Above all, it remains to be seen who will have managed this round, without revealing their cards.
FP3 RANKINGS SPAIN GP F1 2024
1 Carlos SAINZ Ferrari1:13.013 5
2 Lando NORRIS McLaren+0.030 4
3 Charles LECLERC Ferrari+0.037 5
4 Max VERSTAPPEN Red Bull Racing+0.074 4
5 George RUSSELL Mercedes+0.151 5
6 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes+0.346 7
7 Sergio PEREZ Red Bull Racing+0.710 6
8 Alexander ALBON Williams+0.740 5
9 Fernando ALONSO Aston Martin+0.773 7
10 Oscar PLATES McLaren+0.894 5
11 Esteban OCON Alpine+0.937 5
12 Pierre GASLY Alpine+0.951 4
13 Nico HULKENBERG Haas F1 Team+0.962 4
14 Valtteri BOTTAS Kick Sauber+1,011 4
15 Kevin MAGNUSSEN Haas F1 Team+1,061 4
16 Daniel RICCIARDO RB+1,148 4
17 Lance STROLL Aston Martin+1,241 5
18 Yuki TSUNODA RB+1,407 5
19 Guanyu ZHOU Kick Sauber+1,559 6
20 Logan SARGEANT Williams+1,716 4
