Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Practice 1 & 2: Review

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I think that I should start with what happened and writing down for my opinion in the middle of the highlights of the day, so let's start:

✦  Free Practices:
  ✮ FP1:
For being a street circuit we already could wait for the lack of grip, and the beginning of the session we saw Oscar complained from the grip, and Lando was the first to complain about the car is turning more for one side than another another, and he also complained about hitting bottom the car on the straight

• RACE CONTROL: Black and white flag car 11 (Perez) - failing to follow race directors instructions - crossing the line at pit exit
• Lewis complain of the hot seat, second race consecutively
• Stroll complained that it wasn’t a car
• 47:44 to end the first F1 session of the day, we had the first red flag to clean debris
• Russell complains something bothering the elbow
• 43:32 to the end of the sessions was giving the green flag

Ocon: “I got a problem I have no power”, I will talking more about this on the period between the sessions, but today wasn't the day for the Alpines

• Mercedes are back with the old floor, the new was good for qualifying but bad for races, they are testing to discovery what to do

We had a second red flag, I don't think I'm not the only one who had a "I’m stupid" déjà vu:
    - Leclerc: “ I took the dirt on the out… On the outside”

• 18:29 to the end, the third red flag was caused by Colapinto crashed on the wall

On Practice 1 for the track don't be clean and also for the lack of grip we could see Bottas, Sainz, Hamilton escaped and we also saw Albon escaping of the track to not crash, almost the same place of his teammate.

• Tsunoda: “My car is bouncing like hell”

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Between sessions:

• Ocon with a "new" engine, it's a used engine so he doesn't go over the limit
• Ferrari promises to get Leclerc's car ready for the session
• Mercedes changed Russell's PU, in a interview he said:
• "Unfortunately, we lost a little bit of running time with a precautionary power unit change ahead of FP2, we had a problem after FP1 which obviously delayed the start.
  “The problem was the engine in FP1, then at the end it was actually a sensor failure, so we pitted because we thought we had a water leak but we didn’t.”
• 5 minutes before starting the second session Williams was still fixing Colapinto's car

  ✮ FP2:
Leclerc’s saga - part 1:

• After the car was fixed, Leclerc asked about the date, the car is light to the right, heavy to the left, as I said before one of the drivers who complained about this was Norris in FP1
• Then  he said the car was bent
• "We are checking",is back but new words was chose: He was told to continue while waiting for feedback from the other part of team
• Leclerc: “I'm Not Going to Drive This Car Anymore”, and he also complained that it's impossible for the date not to be showing the errors, the car was bent.
• And he almost crashed in the same place while was going back to the garage
• Partial & human barrier of Ferrari members covering what they are doing in Leclerc's car

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• Sainz almost crashed into a wall
• Mercedes didn't fix the heated seat, Hamilton still complaining
• Max almost crashed
• Zhou escaped and almost crashed

Do you remember that I said it wasn't the day for the Alpines, now the problem was with Gasly: "I had a problem I have a problem with the battery, I'm sorry”

• Colapinto hit the wall near the castle with his right rear tire.
• Plastic bag almost hitched a ride with Sainz, Alonso gave a ride to one in the halo, but I don't have a screenshot of this moment

Leclerc’s saga - part 2:

• Leclerc is back
• He went off the rear end
• With a straight car, Leclerc moved up to P1 with a minimum difference of +0.006s from Checo

A little before the end Russell was called to the box: "Box at the end of this lap. We have an issue with the car”

On Practice 2 for the track don't be clean and also for the lack of grip we could see Sainz (several times this session), Verstappen, Zhou, Hulkenberg, Stroll escaped

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So, see you soon!
Fondly, Nina