Sebastian Vettel, chasing his third successive world title, topped the times for Red Bull in Friday's opening free perform assembly for this weekend's United States Grand Prix drivers got their first taste of Formula One's latest location on Friday.
The 25-year-old German, who needs to outscore adjacent competitor Fernando Alonso by 15 points to become Formula One's youngest triple winner at the $400 million Circuit of the Americas, shaped his normal sweltering pace in his first run around the 5.516km (3.4 mile) track engraved out of the south Texas scrublands 25 kilometres away of downtown Austin.
In his 100th Grand Prix event, Vettel looked threateningly quick as he clocked a best time of one minute and 38.125 seconds approximately the 5.516-km track to wind up top of the time screens in front of Lewis Hamilton of McLaren, who won the last Formula One race detained in the United States five-years ago at Indianapolis, by more than 1.4 seconds although times had little meaning in a session that was more about adaptation.
Title rival Alonso of Ferrari was third greatest, a additional 0.8 seconds adrift, in front of Jenson Button in the second McLaren, Mark Webber in the second Red Bull and Felipe Massa in the next Ferrari. If it did little as well, the opening session verify that Vettel and Red Bull will have little harm acclimatize to the demands of the track and that the usual suspects Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari will be the teams to strike.
Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus, champion of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix two weekends ago, was first out on to the 'green' track on a morning of many minor occurrences as the drivers educated their way round the stunning extensive track.
No comments:
Post a Comment