2022 PIRELLI GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA Yawnfest

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I mentioned in the opening thread that de Vries is getting a P1 drive for Williams. He is not the only one.

Vips gets Practice 1 outing with Red Bull

Vips will take the place of Sergio Perez for P1 at Catalunya.

Part of the Red Bull driver academy, Vips drove the squad’s RB16B at the end of season test in Abu Dhabi in December.

He’s this year competing in the FIA F2 Championship and has already achieved two podium finishes.

Its all to do.with new regulations introduced to F1 this year which mandate teams must field a young driver on two occasions throughout the season.

That's correct, nevertheless it would be nicer if they can arrange more teams on the grid so these drivers can have a permanent seat.

To me this is a kind of confirmation Red Bull are light on updates this weekend as has been hinted in my updates report above. Had they been bringing major updates they would have had both main drivers in the cars throughout to be able to get more meaningful data and feedback as to what is working.... basically what is an improvement and by how much. A rookie driver wont have the 'before' knowledge to have meaningful / quantifiable input. Basically RB are using this opportunity to get rid of one of their 2 rookie driver mandated sessions when a main driver input is less important.

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The AM is now a green RB. Good to see them back to the tradition of paying homage to other teams.

But amusing if it works, to see how quickly Merc have a silver RB

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The AM is now a green RB. Good to see them back to the tradition of paying homage to other teams.

But amusing if it works, to see how quickly Merc have a silver RB

Lol indeed they are just showing the green Red Bull on the Sky broadcast now. Apparently Red Bull are a bit miffed.

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Robert Kubica is behind the wheel at Alfa instead of Zhou

I guess the sponsors pay the bills.

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Air temperature is up to 29 Degrees Celsius, with the track a scorching 45 Degrees. So its a bit on th warm side.

P1 underway

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Congrats to Sergio. He became a Father during the week..... a baby boy , little Emilio.
Max turned up with gifts. In Orange!

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Anyway its very busy on track as everyone is trying their updates.

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Mercs dont seem to be porpoising.... but they dont seem to be that quick either, 9th and 10th just over 1.5 off the pace.

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Neither Alfa set a time yet. Same with Vettel and KMag. Everyone else is out pounding round the track.

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Ferraris are both looking good and 1-2 on the sheets, 0.3 ahead of Max with George another 0.4 behind him.

Max got a bit of traffic on his quick lap though, or so it looked.

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POS DRIVERGAP TYRE TYRES USED

1 Charles LECLERC1:19.828 5
2 Carlos SAINZ+0.079 4
3 Max VERSTAPPEN+0.336 5
4 George RUSSELL+0.762 6
5 Fernando ALONSO+0.940 4
6 Lewis HAMILTON+0.983 6
7 Lando NORRIS+1.451 3
8 Pierre GASLY+1.594 3
9 Daniel RICCIARDO+1.909 4
10 Yuki TSUNODA+1.986 4
11 Esteban OCON+2.063 5
12 Lance STROLL+2.092 5
13 Robert KUBICA+2.147 3
14 Kevin MAGNUSSEN+2.261 3
15 Mick SCHUMACHER+2.318 3
16 Sebastian VETTEL+2.336 4
17 Valtteri BOTTAS+2.786 5
18 Nyck DE VRIES+3.092 4
19 Nicholas LATIFI+3.183 3
20 Juri VIPS+4.310 5

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Conclusion: Everyone in a Williams is faster than Latifi. I suspect even Mazepin would be faster than Latifi.

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Wtf was VIPs doing?

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Wtf was VIPs doing?

If you are asking why he was so slow, RBR had him on a hard tyre run and he was not going for fastest times. I heard at the end of the session he got two purple sections in Sector 1 and 2 but then backed off in Sector 3.

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P2 on now

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Bottas car just made a horrible noise on the inboard and. he has pulled up off track.

VSC called.