Belgian Grand Prix: Kimi Antonelli Beats Lando Norris After Red Flags at Spa
Antonelli set the pace on softs as teams ran qualifying simulations, while McLaren kept Oscar Piastri in the garage to fix a hydraulic leak.
- On Friday, Formula 1 championship leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli topped the second free practice session for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, setting a best lap time of one minute and 45.944 seconds.
- Two red flags disrupted the hour-long session, starting when Max Verstappen kicked gravel onto the racing line at Stavelot, followed by Pierre Gasly's crash at the Fagnes chicane in the final 15 minutes.
- Reigning world champion Lando Norris finished second, 0.190 seconds behind Antonelli, while Max Verstappen took third; Mercedes' George Russell struggled in eighth, 1.285 seconds off the pace.
- Gasly's crash triggered a 13-minute red flag suspension, leaving teams only two minutes of final track time to complete their programs and conduct practice starts on the uphill grid.
- Norris will serve a 10-place grid penalty for Sunday's race after McLaren fitted a new control electronics unit, complicating the defending champion's prospects ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix.
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Kimi Antonelli Fastest For Mercedes In Second Practice At Belgian Grand Prix
World championship leader Kimi Antonelli topped the times for Mercedes ahead of defending champion Lando Norris of McLaren in Friday's second free practice ahead of this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix.
Kimi Antonelli saust in training in Spa-Francochamps all of them. In the race, automated speed delays can be expected due to the regular reform. That's why the Grand Prix could be entertaining.
Spa, 17 Jul. - (Adnkronos) - Kimi Antonelli is the fastest in the second free practice of the Belgian Gp, on the Spa circuit. The Emilian driver of Mercedes is redeemed, after a first session not brilliant, stopping the chronometers on the time of 1'45"944 before the English of McLaren Lando Norris (1'46"134) and the Dutch of the Red Bull Max Verstappen (1'46"416), the fastest in the first session. Fourth the first of the two Ferrari, that of th…
The leader of the drivers ranking recovers after a Fp1 in chiaroscuro and is the fastest in the evening free. Ferrari's English finishes with fourth place while the Monegasco is only 11°
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