Piestri of the hometown driver f1 faster in final practice Ah …

Melbourne, Australia (AP) – Hero of the hometown of McLaren Oscar Piastri He directed a super competitive final practice session on Saturday for Formula 1 on Sunday Australian Grand Prix With the Australian only 39 thousand thousands of second ahead of George Russell de Mercedes.

The piastri born in Melbourne changed the best times with the current world champion of Russell and Red Bull, Max Verstappen, who was the third fastest. Verstappen was the reference point during the first 22 minutes of the session.

Ferrari ended the order, with the first man of the second practice Charles Leclercarc in fourth place, almost three tenths of the rhythm, while his teammate Lewis Hamilton It was eighth.

Russell Mercedes teammate, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, closed the first five, ahead of both Williams pilots, who again showed an impressive rhythm, with the Australian champion Defensor Carlos Sainz Sixth ahead of his teammate Alex Albon.

Haas’s rookie, Oliver Bearman, stopped the final practice just four minutes from the session, with the British taking out the red flags after he lost control of the car in curve 11 and buried the car in the gravel. The new recruit of Red Bull, Liam Lawson, could not establish a return, and the team said that the problem in its car was a “power unit problem or a problem of the power unit system on the air side.”

The qualification was scheduled for later on Saturday.

It was the second incident on the track for the 19 -year -old Bearman this weekend, with the Haas driver entering the wall at the exit of the 9/10 Chicane turn during Friday’s opening practice. That forced him to sit the second session with his car trapped in the wells that needed repairs.

Australia is the fourth weekend of Bearman’s F1 after strong performances supported last year, even for Ferrari in Saudi Arabia, and Azerbaijan and Brazil for Haas. In Baku last year, the British became the first pilot to score points for two different teams in his first two races.

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