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The qualifying session takes place today. The favorites are the Red Bull drivers

Editorial GERMANY

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The two Red Bull drivers, Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, dominated the first two free practice sessions of the German Grand Prix, whose session qualifier We will play today, with rain forecasts.

Yesterday, the sun shone on the Hockenheim circuit, and Verstappen broke the track record in its modern layout with a time of 1 minute, 13 seconds and 85 thousandths. thousandths the reference time of the German Michael Schumacher with Ferrari in 2004.

The 20-year-old Dutch driver surpbaded the Mercedes of the British Lewis Hamilton and the Finnish Valtteri Bottas in 26 and 105 thousandths.

In a bad mood
In two days, Mercedes renewed its pilot duo: Hamilton Thursday until 2020 and Bottas until 2019. The German Grand Prix is ​​presented as a opportunity for the brand to celebrate as big at home "I have the impression of wasting my energy, I'm not learning anything here," complained Hamilton at the end of the second session, quadruple champion of the world and obviously in a bad mood.

The Ferrari of German Sebastian Vettel and Finnish Kimi Raikkonen was a good distance, but they usually did not show his cards during the test session on Friday [19659005] Vettel arrives in Germany as World Cup leader with 8 points over Hamilton, where the battle is served.

Scuderie did not release pressure on the development of his car and took advantage of the day to test a new exhaust system.

Verstappen, with a high number of followers in Hockenheim, has an exciting weekend, especially since Red Bull has never been able to impose

his Ricciardo's partner has worse prospects for Sunday. From the bottom of the starting grid by penalty, because his team decided to change several elements of its engine thinking about the Hungarian Grand Prix next week.

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