Although Sergio perez It was the fastest of the second free practice session of the United States GP, the leading role in this batch was taken by the two ‘cockerels’ of the World Championship. Lewis hamilton and Max verstappen they starred in the image so far this weekend, with a chop that almost ended in an accident.
They had just started, barely a third of the session, when the Mercedes and the Red Bull met on the finish line. With Hamilton on the inside and Verstappen on the outside, neither of them gave up the place at the braking point of the fearsome Turn 1, to the point that they were barely separated by millimeters.
The resolution was Verstappen calling “stupid idiot” to Hamilton and dedicating a more than eloquent comb to him.
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Good for this incident, or because neither of them wanted to show the cards, the truth is that they did not show the potential that presumably they will get in the classification. Proof of this is that after Pérez, the second was Lando norris and Hamilton stayed more than 3 tenths.
As for the Spanish, Carlos Sainz he set the 9th time in a session that, in perspective, was not so bad. At least when compared to that of a Fernando Alonso that he is not comfortable at the wheel of the Alpine in Austin. After the problem in the first session, in this second he ended with a spin and a touch against the wall. The oversteer and the 13th time do not bode well for him, especially when his partner Esteban Ocon It wasn’t much better either: 11th.
The constant eliminations of times by the track limits were the dominant trend of this session, auguring, perhaps, a complex qualifying session.