The Monegasque pilot Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) today recorded the best time of the third and final day of preseason testing for the Formula 1at the Sakhir International Circuit, in Bahrainwhere the category will play the first date on its calendar on Saturday, March 2.
As happened on Thursday, the third day of testing had a rocky start after a poorly sealed manhole cover forced rehearsals to be suspended, when only 28 minutes of the round had been played.
Due to this inconvenience, the session was stopped for an hour and a quarter and, to compensate for the lost time, the teams and the organization agreed to cancel the scheduled lunch break and finally only one of the two scheduled sessions was held.
Leclerc, 26, who took to the track in the second half of the day, set a time of 1m30s322/1000 in the best of the 74 laps he completed and closed the day with the fastest record.
The Ferrari driver was 46/1000 ahead of the Briton George Russellwho set a mark of 1m30s368 aboard his Mercedes W15.
The third best record was in the hands of the Chinese Zhou Guanyu. The pilot of Sauber He finished 325/1000 of the reference time achieved by Leclerc.
The current three-time world champion, Max Verstappenwho decided not to spin on Thursday after having achieved the best time in testing on Wednesday, finished fourth today, 433/1000 behind the Ferrari driver.
In this way, the Italian team closes the preseason tests with a positive balance and as a reference within Formula 1, after leading two of the three days.
The time achieved by Carlos Sainz to be the fastest on Thursday (1m29.921), was the best record of these tests.
Source: Ambito
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