The Mexican Red Bull driver finished in No. 12 in a test interrupted by two abandonments
the Monegasque Charles Leclerc and Spanish Carlos Sainz, The two pilots of Ferrari, They set the two best times this Friday in second free practice for the Grand Prix of the Netherlands, The thirteenth of the Formula World Championship, Which is played on the Dutch circuit of Zandvoort; where the other Spaniard, the double world champion Fernando Alonso (Alpine), Marked the sixth time trial and the Mexican Czech Perez (Red Bull), The twelfth.
In the best of his 28 laps, Leclerc covered, with a soft tire, the 4,259 meters of the short, narrow and undulating Dutch track in one minute, 10 seconds and 902 thousandths, 154 less than Sainz, Who turned once less than his fellow Monegasque.
For his part, the local idol, the Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull) He set the fifth time while the leader of the World Cup, the seven-time English world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), The eleventh.
the French Esteban Ocon (Alpine) It remained at 172 thousandths of Leclerc and finished third in the time table of a session – which ended with 21 degrees Celsius ambient and 34 on the asphalt – in which everyone, with the soft compound, signed the best records of the day.
Alonso, Your partner in Alpine, Gave 32 laps, three more than the double Asturian world champion, who stopped the clock in 1: 11.280, 378 thousandths of a second from the Monegasque and set the sixth time on Friday.
the Mexican Czech Perez (Red Bull) He was twelfth. Czech repeated the route 26 times and was just over a second behind Leclerc, In a session in which his Dutch partner Max Verstappen he clocked the fifth time, at 362 thousandths; and his great rival for the title, Hamilton –who leads the championship with a three-point lead over the past–, which led to the first of the two red flags in the test, the other starring the Russian Nikita Mazepin (Haas), The eleventh.
Hamilton he had barely turned three times when his Mercedes lost power, finishing the session much earlier than expected and with a time of more than a second and nine thousandths – with the average tire – to that of Leclerc.
The third and final free practice will be held this Saturday, hours before qualifying, which will order the starting grid for Sunday’s race, scheduled for 72 laps to complete a 306.6-kilometer course.