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(Motorsport-Total.com) – Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time on Tuesday: the first of two days of the Pirelli Tire test in Abu Dhabi. The German was more than two seconds lower than Lewis Hamilton in Saturday's Grand Prix qualifying with a lap of 1 to 36,812 minutes, which could be explained by the higher temperatures of the day. and his program.
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Vettel had to survive a moment of shock when testing Pirelli tires zoom
Already in the morning, Vettel had to survive a small moment of shock: he turned in turn 1 and hit the barrier of TecPro at low speed. His SF71H was visibly damaged at the back, but Vettel regained his own strength in the Ferrari box.
Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes / + 0.419 seconds) came in second on the time table to be used with caution, followed by Lance Stroll (+ 0.603). Outgoing driver Williams tested Tuesday for Force India, but is still not confirmed as a regular driver in 2019. Max Verstappen (Red Bull / 4 ./ + 1,135) and Sergio Perez (Force India / 5 ./+ 1,164 ) are in the top five.
Renault driver Nico Hulkenberg finished the day of testing in seventh place (+1 977). Returning to Sauber, Kimi Raikkonen (11./3.0.0.066) presented a seemingly slow but solid program before stopping with a mechanical failure of lap 7 one hour before the end of the race and had to cancel early. Nevertheless, 102 laps for the Finn.
The new Haas test driver, Pietro Fittipaldi (8th / shortly after the start of the test day) gave another red flag: the grandson of the legend of the race Emerson Fittipaldi was innocent of his debut in Formula 1: he had technical problems and the team immediately suspected a It was only towards the end that Fittipaldi returned to the track.
Williams settled with George Russell in the morning (10/22,700) and Robert Kubica in the afternoon (9/2 + 2,457) his new master riders. The hard drive card was awarded to Sean Galael, the Toro Rosso tester, who made 150 laps but did not go over the twelfth and last place.
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