F1 Gp Baku, free practice today: Verstappen ahead of Leclerc- Corriere.it

Duel Red Bull-Ferrari in Baku, it seems to be back to last year. Even if they are only free practice and confirmations will be needed in the afternoon in qualifying. Verstappen ahead of Leclerc by a whisker, 37 thousandths. Then Perez and Sainz. a red car that started better than in Bahrain, Arabia and Australia. We’ll see if he can keep his promises.

Yet before that Charles had been shivering after a lockup at turn 7, but fortunately without consequences. The Monegasque started on pole here both in 2021 and last year. He gets excited among the low walls but this is a track that doesn’t forgive the slightest mistake. Towards the end another long one at turn 2, less problematic.

In the only free practice session in the Azerbaijan GP, ​​due to the new format with double qualifying and Sprint race on Saturday. And it’s already a race against time for the teams because in the hour available to the engineers to fine-tune the single-seaters, everything has already happened. And he turned around very little because of the red flag caused by a big trouble that happened to Gasly.

The Frenchman’s Alpine literally went up in smoke, he stopped in an escape route with the beginning of a fire. The damage to the French single-seater appears to be profound, it took a few minutes to shut it down, it seems that it was caused by a loss of hydraulic pressure. Earlier Tsunoda had returned to the pits on three wheels after a puncture, while Magnussen stopped with a breakdown