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Team Summary:
With just one practice session before qualifying for the 2021 British Grand
Prix it was going to be vital to get the most from the session. With the
start of the session there would be a large number of cars out running using
a mix of the hard and medium tyre. This would include both Williams cars and
with the first laps completed it would be Verstappen quickest with a
1m:30.274 set on the hard tyre. Hamilton would go quickest with a 1m:30.048
with the Williams cars currently 9th and 15th. Verstappen was second
followed by Bottas, Gasly, Alonso, Ocon, Sainz, Tsunoda, Leclerc and George
now 10th. The top three times had all been set on the hard tyre.
The order would change as we had Perez now third from Ocon and Tsunoda.
Bottas was now sixth from Gasly, Vettel, Alonso and Stroll tenth. Hamilton
now on the medium would set a 1m:29.690 to remain quickest with Bottas also
on the medium now second. Verstappen was third followed by Perez, Ocon,
Vettel, Alonso, Tsunoda, Gasly and Stroll tenth. The Williams drivers were
now 12th and 18th. Bottas would go quickest with a 1m:29.373 from Hamilton.
But on the medium tyre Perez would go quickest with a 1m:28.855 from Bottas
and Hamilton. The Williams drivers were currently 15th and 18th.
Verstappen on the medium was able to move ahead of Perez with a 1m:27.745.
We would start to see the first soft tyre runs with both Haas cars using
them with thirty five minutes remaining. Vettel on the medium was now third
ahead of both Mercedes. Stroll was now sixth followed by Giovinazzi,
Raikkonen, Ocon and Schumacher with the Haas using the soft tyre to good
effect. Mazepin was now 12th. The Williams pair were now 19th & 20th but had
not changed from the hard tyre. On the medium tyre Leclerc would improve to
be third followed by Vettel and Bottas. The second Ferrari of Sainz would
jump up to fifth. Ricciardo would use the medium tyre to now be in sixth
ahead of Bottas. Both Mercedes were on longer runs on the medium tyre.
Verstappen using the soft tyre would set a 1m:27.035 to be ahead of Perez
also on the soft tyre. Norris was now third using the medium tyre. Norris
would improve to be second ahead of Perez with Ricciardo now fourth. More
cars were out on the soft tyre including both Mercedes. Hamilton would move
into third behind Norris. Bottas was now fourth ahead of Perez and
Ricciardo. Sainz would improve to be fourth ahead of Bottas. But Leclerc
would join him seeing Leclerc and Sainz now fourth an fifth. Ocon would
improve to be ninth. with six minutes remaining in the session. Bottas was
now fifth ahead of Sainz, Vettel, Perez, Ricciardo and Ocon now tenth.
As the session drew to a close Hamilton would move up to be third with the
order now Verstappen quickest followed by Norris, Hamilton, Leclerc, Bottas,
Sainz, Vettel, Perez, Ricciardo and Ocon tenth. With the end of the session
we would have the Williams drivers in 16th and 20th. With the nature of the
pit lane the drivers were allowed to go to the grid to complete practice
starts. In what was an unusual result we would have Nicholas head of
team-mate George but George had been complaining about issues with his car.
George Russell:
George would also come out for his first run in the session also using the
hard tyre. A 1m:32.551 and he would be 7th dropping to eighth then tenth.
But a 1m:31.821 would see George now 9th. After a five lap run George would
pit currently 11th. He would drop to 13th. He would return again on the hard
tyre and with a twelve lap run he would pit. He would see himself drop to
19th as he sat in the pits. With thirteen minutes remaining we would see
George return this time using the soft tyre. George would set a 1m:29.857
but would remain slowest. George would pit after a seven lap run. George had
been complaining with a high speed rear end stability. George had set a
1m:29.665 but this was deleted due to track limits at Turn nine. But this
time would not have seen him move too far up the times.
Nicholas Latifi:
Nicholas would be first out for Williams running on teh hard tyre. He would
set a 1m:34.084 to be eighth with this becoming 15th. But a 1m:32.300 and
Nicholas was now 11th. But his time would be deleted seeing him now 18th
with a time of 1m:32.858. Nicholas was on a long run on the hard tyre having
completed nine laps so far. Nicholas would pit after a fifteen lap run
currently 20th. With just over twenty minutes remaining and Nicholas would
return on the soft tyre. Nicholas would set a 1m:29.227 to now be tenth. He
would drop to 11th. With more soft tyre runs Nicholas would drop to 16th.
Nicholas would pit after a eight lap run. |
