"Mercedes and Ferrari will grow up" / Formula 1 SPEEDWEEK

Formula 1

After Vanessa Georgoulas – 20.07.2018 17:45

The talent of Red Bull Racing Max Verstappen achieved the best lap of the second free practice session of the GP of Germany. But he was just faster than Mercedes star Lewis Hamilton. And that was not his only concern.

Max Verstappen is much improved during the Friday at Hockenheimring. The 20-year-old driver, who signed the GP's third fastest time with a time of 1: 13.714, improved by more than six-tenths in the afternoon and was able to enjoy the best Afternoon time – but his nose was tight Before: Silver Arrow Ace Lewis Hamilton, who announced his contract extension with Mercedes the day before, was only 26 thousandths slower.

Verstappen suffered a compulsive break at training because he had been alerted by strange noises. There, the Red Bull Racing team quickly understood what was wrong, as the Dutch subsequently revealed: "We discovered a small leak of oil that was to to be repaired. That's why I ended up checking to see if everything is fine. "

Despite this, the quadruple winner of the GP came to the end:" It was a good Friday, the training went better than expected and I hope that " But he did not want to say he could compete with the Mercedes drivers and the Ferrari duo for the GP win at Hockenheimring. "I can not say it yet, because I did not have a race simulation of its own, and as far as our car is concerned, I'm confident because it's going pretty well and that makes me happy, of course. But first we must look at where we will land in qualifying, because that's a lot of course. "

A sharp point in the Renault engine manufacturer's direction could not withstand Ambitious GP star.He commented that he was particularly fast in sectors 1 and 3: "Yes, there are not too many straight lines out there." Because – what Verstappen had pointed out several times – that is the power deficit of the Viry-Chatillon power units, of course, particularly sensitive to the competition of Ferrari and Mercedes.

That's why Verstappen does not want to overestimate the best time of the day: "Normally, Ferrari and Mercedes meet on Saturday and find the edge. But we can improve even more, because on my fast lap there was also a little traffic. That's why I hope we'll be close tomorrow. We have to wait and see what the weather is like because Saturday is raining. I hope it's going as well as here. Let's see what happens.