Charles Leclerc, the winner last year in a thrilling match with Mercedes star Lewis Hamilton, while the Briton arrives in formidable form after taking the checkered flag in Spain.
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Formula 1 (F1) 28 August 2020
SESSION ENDED
You’re botding his first blood in his war with Hamilton.
Verstappen is again the other.
BOTTAS HAS A PONCTURA
He’s been told his left tire is deflating.
Could this be a return of the tyre problems Mercedes experienced at Silverstone?
Bottas on the radio: “I’m getting used to those punctures. I had one last week in my road car.
He’s in the garage.
FEWER MINUTES TO GO
And they are Bottas, Hamilton, Verstappen, Perez and Stroll at the top.
Raikkonen, Leclerc, Vettel, Latifi and Russell fall.
Sounds good, doesn’t it?
– Mercedes-AMG F1 (MercedesAMGF1) 28 August 2020
MORE ABOUT FERRARI
Leclerc is ranked 13th and Vettel is 14th on the timesheets, that’s not enough.
It should also be noted that the groups powered by Ferrari are Alfa Romeo and Haas.
Three of those four cars even set the lap time.
This is a fear for the Italian team.
FERRARI CONTINUES TO FIGHT
Yes, it’s just practice, but Sebastian Vettel’s return is the slowest on the board lately.
2.7 seconds slower than Alex Albon.
This Ferrari won the pole this year on the track.
A collapse.
DOUBLE BLOWING FOR HAAS
Remember Grosjean said he lost power? Your car wants an engine change.
And so did his teammate, Kevin Magnussen.
Both drivers are out of this query while their mechanics replace the powertrains.
HAMILTON SWAPS FOR NEW TYRES
And respond by completing the fastest query lap to date.
LECLERC AND HAMILTON HAVE PROBLEMS
The Guy of Ferrari fights and locks his tires and gets off the track twice.
And now Hamilton is doing the same thing, blocking and controlling.
Both drivers use the hard compounds, but have even taken 10 laps with those tires, but they provide.
VERSTAPPEN CURRENTLY FASTER
The Red Bull guy watches the moment as his teammate, Alex Albon, wants a blank weekend.
The London-born Thai pilot struggled to qualify, giving him more paintings to make on a Sunday.
PROBLEM FOR GROSJEAN
Report that your Haas car has no strength and will return to the pits.
Haas has come back very disappointing this season and will probably be overtaken by Williams.
SLOW START TO THE SESSION
F1 has had a week off in this hectic racing season and it turns out that few drivers are so eager to get on the track.
Ricciardo and Verstappen are now heading for their laps.
All eyes are on Red Bull this week to see if they can Mercedes.
This track has been ruled by Mercedes, can Red Bull put an end to it?
FP1 IN SPA IS ONGOING
Clear day in Spa and some first aerodynamic tests in progress. It’s an amazing track, but they’re changing.
Rain is forecast for Sunday’s race, which can cheer things up.
PRACTICE TIME
The action is expected to begin at 10am UK time at Spa.
Stay tuned for all the action.
WE’RE ON THE ROAD.
Sebastian Vettel says F1 drivers are going to boycott the Belgian Grand Prix.
The 33-year-old German is the director of the Grand Prix drivers’ association, minimizing the communication of an exit.
He insisted: “I don’t think it makes much sense now to go that far, because there’s nothing on the table and there’s no explanation why boycotting the race.
“But I am sure that if we are not satisfied with something, we will communicate it and take action with a blunt message after the first occasion after a difficult time for everyone.
“Our feeling is very transparent that we have to keep sending this message.”
HAM SUPPORT
Six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has said he will NOT boycott Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix, even though he pledged to continue running with Formula One to raise awareness of racial inequality.
A wave of protests from players opposed to the police shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, in Wisconsin on Sunday, has forced the primary to be postponed in the United States.
Boycotts began through the Wisconsin-based NBA Bucks Milwaukee Bucks when they refused to take the short for their playoff game on Wednesday.
Others followed suit in a demonstration of unprecedented solidarity with athletes.
Hamilton, formula one’s first driving force and the only black driving force, said he sympathizes with fellow American sports companies.
He said: “I am very proud of everyone who is there and I am attached to them to check and do what we can here.”
“I don’t know how we didn’t run, I’d go on, that’s the thing.”
“I’m going to check to get in the way of Formula One to see what else we can do to keep raising awareness, keep helping to grow.”
DO IT FOR ANTOINE
Anthoine Hubert’s teammates paid tribute to the Frenchman on his return to Spa-Francorchamps a year after the 22-year-old lost his life on the Belgian track.
Hubert ran in the Formula 2 series, a Formula One category and refueling, when he suffered fatal injuries in a high-speed collision on Saturday of the 2019 Belgian Grand Prix.
His death is the first death on a Formula One race weekend since three-time Brazilian champion Ayrton Senna and Austrian Roland Ratzenberger were killed at Imola in 1994.
Compatriot Pierre Gasly, who drives Formula One Alpha Tauri and grew up driving Hubert.
He said: “For me, it’s very difficult to settle for you no longer being with us.
Gasly deposited flowers at the scene of Hubert’s twist and will wear a special helmet in his honor this weekend.
All Formula Two cars will also bring one that the series has created in your memory.
Charles Leclerc of Ferrari grew up competing with Hubert and won his first Formula One victory in Belgium last year, the day after the Frenchman’s death.
He said: “It’s certainly complicated and it’s going to be complicated with that in mind.
“But that doesn’t replace my purpose for the weekend, which is to do it in the car.”
Hubert, a member of the Formula 1 Renaults young drivers program, suffered his twist of fate in the raidillon’s rapid turn on the Spa tracks.
He bounced the barriers before he was hit by Ecuadorian American Juan Manuel Correa.
Correa, who suffered serious leg injuries in the incident that required several surgeries, made an emotional return to Spa on Thursday.
In a wheelchair hoping to resume racing next year, he went to the crash site.
He said in a statement: “Being in Spa this week brings many emotions, some positive and some negative.
“It will be a difficult weekend in that sense, but I’m here, basically to pay anthoine’s threesome and also to see old friends, revisit the paddock and enjoy the racing weekend.
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