Good feelings for the Asturian in Miami, who is ‘among the greats’.
Sergio Pérez has led the third free practice sessions of the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, in a session that has once again been interrupted by an accident, this time involving Frenchman Esteban Ocon, who hit the wall at turn 14 hard after only fifteen minutes. minutes.
Pérez topped the time table with a time of 1:30.304, which could not be broken by the Monegasque Charles Leclerc at the end of the session. The Ferrari driver, current leader of the 2022 F1 World Championship, was 194 thousandths behind the Mexican, who is very good at urban circuits of this type, such as Baku or Russia, where he has won and climbed on the podium respectively.
Max Verstappen, who was barely able to ride yesterday in Free Practice 2 after being affected by a problem in the gearbox and later by a hydraulic failure, finished in third position, three tenths off the leader… with a scare included, position that he lost the car in the chicane area on his last fast lap and almost hit the wall.
Good pace from Fernando Alonso in these third free practice sessions. The Spaniard from Alpine was fourth, with much better luck than his teammate, Esteban Ocon, who crashed into the wall at turn 14 after only fifteen minutes of session.
Alpine is showing speed again, and it will be necessary to see if they can take advantage of it during the rest of the weekend, for which it will be necessary not to have technical problems like the ones they have suffered in the previous rounds this season.
After Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and a surprising Mick Schumacher with the Haas stopped the clock, followed by Carlos Sainz (seventh), who tried to recover the confidence lost after the accident suffered yesterday at the start of the second free practice sessions.
The Mercedes, after a hopeful start to the weekend, have returned to the bottom of the table, with Hamilton fifteenth and Russell seventeenth.
The qualifying session will start at 10:00 p.m. today, Saturday, and things could not be more even: will it be pole position for Red Bull or Ferrari? Can Leclerc with Verstappen? Will Sainz be there to fight for pole? Only a few hours left to find out…
