It is the second week of the consecutive race weekend at Spielberg, Austria. The circuit Österreichring(Red Bull Ring) was built in 1969 and later in the year 2011 the circuit was purchased and rebuilt by Red Bull. Red Bull ring is one of the fastest circuits in the calendar with ten corner and three DRS activation zones.
Italian anthem played on a podium ceremony is one of the spectacular moments to watch in Formula one and Ferrari fans are missing it ever since October 2018(Austin, Texas). Ferrari is expected to excel in this circuit and will be another chance to come back on to the podium.
Practice 2
Practice 2 session was red flagged twice due to the crashes by Bottas and Verstappen in two separate incidents. Also, Vettel had a great escape at turn ten which compromised his qualifying simulation. Leclerc was the fastest man in this session with time 1:05:086 followed by Bottas and Gasly with the gap 0.331sec and 0.401sec respectively.
Here is the data which was clocked under 70 seconds. According the data Ferrari looks impressive, but nothing certain until Practice 3 session.
Timing Info
Sector Timings
Tyre Info
Practice 3
Practice 3 revealed true pace of teams. Ferrari is strong only in Sector 2 and Mercedes will able to close that gap with their timing in Sector 1 and Sector 3. The average race pace of Mercedes also looks impressive. Gasly seems to have improved in his pace and there will good racing between Norris and Gasly.
Here is the data which was clocked under 70 seconds.
Timing Info
Sector Timings
Tyre Info
Reference
The circuit map is taken from Wikipedia.
