Sao Paulo: Seven-Time World Champion Lewis Hamilton confiscated Mercedes in practice for the Grand Prix Sao Paulo Formula One on Friday after causing a five-place grid penalty for Sunday’s race.
Briton put the best lap one minute 09,050 seconds, with the second Red Bull Max Verstappen championship leader and 0.367 slower in the cloudy interlagos with occasional raindrops and many empty seats in the stands.
Lewis led the Red Bulls after the first practice 👀 # Brazilgp 🇧🇷 # F1 https://t.co/bezkatt2T2- Formula 1 (@ F1) 1636735046000verpen Leading Hamilton, which took penalties for engine changes and complained that the front end of his car “very poor “, At 19 points with four remaining races including Brazil.
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Red Bull’s Mexican Sergio Perez was third on Timesheets with the fourth Hamilton Mate Valttery Bottas team at the only training session before qualifying for Saturday sprint races.
The 100km sprint offers the top three points in the order of 3-2-1 and Hamilton’s penalty will only apply to the grid early Sunday.
Pierre Gasly Alphatauri is the fastest Fifth in front of Ferraris Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc.
Ferrari reclaimed the third place as a whole of McLaren in the previous race in Mexico and wanted to expand their profits.
McLaren has Lando Norris to the 15th and Australian Daniel Ricciardo 19th, but they run different programs with others.