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F1 results: Ferraris fastest in United States GP practice on Friday
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was fastest during United States Grand Prix practice at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas on Friday, the 19th round of the 2022 Formula 1 World Championship.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Oct 22, 2022, 1:46 AM
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His teammate Carlos Sainz was fastest in FP1 and Leclerc topped FP2, having missed the first session in favour of mandated rookie runner Robert Shwartzman.
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United States Grand Prix FP1 results: Sainz fastest from Verstappen
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Carlos Sainz Ferrari 19 1'36.857 204.908 2
Max Verstappen Red Bull 15 1'37.081 0.224 0.224 204.435 3
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 20 1'37.332 0.475 0.251 203.908 4
Lance Stroll Aston Martin 23 1'37.460 0.603 0.128 203.640 5
Sergio Perez Red Bull 19 1'37.515 0.658 0.055 203.525 6
Fernando Alonso Alpine 25 1'37.713 0.856 0.198 203.113 7
George Russell Mercedes 23 1'37.802 0.945 0.089 202.928 8
Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 24 1'37.810 0.953 0.008 202.911 9
Lando Norris McLaren 23 1'37.856 0.999 0.046 202.816 10
Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 25 1'38.041 1.184 0.185 202.433 11
Esteban Ocon Alpine 24 1'38.102 1.245 0.061 202.307 12
Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo 21 1'38.276 1.419 0.174 201.949 13
Alex Albon Williams 21 1'38.422 1.565 0.146 201.650 14
Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 23 1'38.898 2.041 0.476 200.679 15
Mick Schumacher Haas 20 1'38.922 2.065 0.024 200.630 16
Robert Shwartzman Ferrari 21 1'38.951 2.094 0.029 200.572 17
Alex Palou McLaren 21 1'39.911 3.054 0.960 198.644 18
Theo Pourchaire Alfa Romeo 19 1'40.175 3.318 0.264 198.121 19
Logan Sargeant Williams 23 1'40.325 3.468 0.150 197.825 20
Antonio Giovinazzi Haas 4 1'43.063 6.206 2.738 192.569 View full results
What happened in United States GP Free Practice 1?
Sergio Perez set the early bar for Red Bull at 1m40.549s on soft tyres just before Haas F1 Team FP1 returnee Antonio Giovinazzi spun into the barriers in the Esses. He overheated the clutch as he struggled to rejoin and was ruled out for the rest of the session, as the car required a new gearbox.
Following a brief red flag, Red Bull's Max Verstappen improved the P1 time to 1m38.272s and then 1m37.462s. In the final 20 minutes, Lance Stroll went fastest for Aston Martin, 0.002s faster, before Sainz set 1m36.857s, which proved to be the quickest time of the session.
Verstappen pushed again and got within 0.224s to retake second, ahead of Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), Stroll and Perez.
As well as Giovinazzi, who ended up last, the other ‘real’ rookies in this session were Shwartzman (Ferrari) in 16th, ahead of Alex Palou (McLaren, who didn’t run soft tyres), Theo Pourchaire (Alfa Romeo, time also set on mediums) and Logan Sargeant (Williams).
United States Grand Prix FP2 results: Leclerc fastest from Bottas
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 37 1'36.810 205.007 2
Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo 37 1'37.525 0.715 0.715 203.504 3
Daniel Ricciardo McLaren 40 1'37.627 0.817 0.102 203.292 4
Carlos Sainz Ferrari 26 1'38.232 1.422 0.605 202.040 5
Mick Schumacher Haas 26 1'39.507 2.697 1.275 199.451 6
Lando Norris McLaren 26 1'39.547 2.737 0.040 199.371 7
Max Verstappen Red Bull 26 1'39.575 2.765 0.028 199.315 8
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 26 1'39.698 2.888 0.123 199.069 9
Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 26 1'39.840 3.030 0.142 198.786 10
Sergio Perez Red Bull 26 1'39.852 3.042 0.012 198.762 11
Kevin Magnussen Haas 24 1'40.084 3.274 0.232 198.301 12
Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 26 1'40.178 3.368 0.094 198.115 13
George Russell Mercedes 26 1'40.562 3.752 0.384 197.358 14
Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo 26 1'40.664 3.854 0.102 197.158 15
Lance Stroll Aston Martin 26 1'40.806 3.996 0.142 196.881 16
Esteban Ocon Alpine 26 1'41.310 4.500 0.504 195.901 17
Fernando Alonso Alpine 26 1'41.334 4.524 0.024 195.855 18
Alex Albon Williams 26 1'41.853 5.043 0.519 194.857 19
Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 26 1'41.857 5.047 0.004 194.849 20
Nicholas Latifi Williams 26 1'42.317 5.507 0.460 193.973 View full results
What happened in United States GP Free Practice 2?
Leclerc topped second practice, where the majority of laptimes were essentially meaningless due to the session being dedicated to 2023 Pirelli tyre testing.
Leclerc was one of three drivers to run two of the 2022 Pirelli compounds – along with Valtteri Bottas and Daniel Ricciardo – because they sat out FP1.
As the rest of the field completed set run plans dictated by Pirelli on two of its prototype compounds for next year – given to the teams in a ‘blind’ allocation, with the drivers required to run both types but unaware which was which during their testing running – that trio duly set the session’s fastest times.
After running on the softs early on, and following a quick trip to the pits to switch to the mediums, Leclerc set the quickest time of FP2 just before the 15-minute mark – a 1m36.810s. Bottas pipped Ricciardo and take second behind Leclerc – 0.715s slower than the Ferrari.
Sainz headed the drivers that only ran the new prototype compounds on 1m38.232s.
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