2023-05-27 12:36:40
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They were the last preparations for qualifying, a very important session in Monaco
the dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull)leader of the championship and who aspires to win a third title in a row, led this Saturday – ahead of his partner, the Mexican Sergio Perez– the third and last free practice for the Monaco Grand Prixthe sixth of the World F1in the urban circuit of Montecarlo; where the Spanish Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) y Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) they signed the fourth and fourteenth time, respectively.
In the best of his 19 laps, Verstappen covered -with a soft tire- the 3,337 meters of the track in the streets of the principality of the Côte d’Azur in one minute, twelve seconds and 776 thousandths, only 73 less than Checo Perez -who seconded him in the World Championship to fourteen points and who wants to repeat his victory last year in the most iconic race of the World Cup-, in a session that ended five minutes ahead of schedule, with a red flag, as a result of the accident – without major physical consequences – of the seven-time English world champion Lewis Hamiltonwho lost control, going down to Mirabeaufrom his Mercedes; that he had to be removed from the track, leaving some spectacular images, by means of a crane.
Checo Perez He repeated the Monegasque track 24 times and improved the Canadian by 93 hundredths Lance Strollpartner of Alonso in Aston Martin, which marked the third time of a session that ended with 28 degrees Celsius ambient and 47 on the asphalt; and in which everyone achieved their best times with the soft compound.
Carlos Sainz -fifth in the World Cup, with 44 points, 75 less than Verstappen– did twenty laps and registered fourth, 485 thousandths behind his first partner in the F1: in 2015, aboard a Red Bullactual To install Alpha Tauri.
Alonso, who did not have the option of a last good attempt either, since shortly before the accident Hamilton -which ended with the eighth time- the Haas from danish Kevin Magnussenregistered fourteenth in the time table.
The Asturian double world champion, third in the World Cup -44 points behind Verstappen- and who achieved two of his 32 victories on the legendary Monegasque track (in 2006 and 2007), was nine tenths behind the time of ‘Mad Max’ .
Qualifying, which is usually decisive in this Grand Prix, and which will order the starting formation for this Sunday’s race -scheduled for 78 laps, to complete a 280.2-kilometre route
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