Emilia Romagna GP

Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari Circuit

Circuit Facts:

Practice:

FP1:

Brian Bozzi is Charles Leclerc’s new engineer
Major upgrades to most cars except for RB Cash App F1 Team
Red Bull upgrades, new front wing for more downforce, a new floor edge, new rear corner which is circuit specific with the new cooling range for Imola, new floor body for better airflow conditioning, an upgrade on the nose
yellow flag sector 2 and 3 – Alex Albon had a technical issue and completely stopping off track with 39 minutes left, doesn’t continue in FP1, causes a red flag
green flag at 33 minutes left
Zhou Guanyu complains “I’m jumping everywhere like a kangaroo”
Gasly having struggels with his car as the brakes were to soft and then him “not being able to see where he was going on the straight”
Lewis Hamilton spins around in turn 17
Max Verstappen’s tear off went into his break duct with 16 minutes left, having to go into the pits to get it removed
Verstappen struggling through the corners 11, 12, and 13 and going off many times through the chicane

FP2:

Yuki Tsunoda FIA stewards’ investigation after the session. Failing to follow race directions instructions – practice start infringement

FP3:

Yellow flag sector 3 Fernando Alonso goes into the barriers, causes a red flag
William’s car noted for an unsafe release
Sergio Perez goes into the wall at turn 15 on a quick lap and completely ruins his front wing. Yellow flag, then a red flag.
Session resumes with 2 minutes left
Daniel Ricciardo running on the racing line and nearly made contact with Kevin when Kevin was doing a hot lap

Logan Sargent into the gravel yellow flag 2nd and 3rd sector – yellow flag, green flag, out of Quali.
Fernando Alonso into the gravel again after crash in FP3, continuing in Quali
Oscar Piastri blocking Kevin noted, under investigation, 3 place grid penalty taking him down from 2nd to 5th

Race Recap:

Fernando Alonso starting in the pit lane due to set up and suspension change
Oscar faces 3 place grid penalty for impeding on Kevin Magnussen during qualifying leading for Kevin to be taken out in Q1
Alex Albon comes out of the pits driving very slowly, then complains “a tyre is not on properly” has to go back in the pits and comes out last. Albon under investigation for unsafe condition on track, he is later given a 10 second penalty.
Fernando Alonso’s front brakes were on fire coming out of the pit lane, however, keeps driving
Black and white flag for Max, track limits, lap 24
Alex Albon retires the race on lap 51

Fastest Lap:

Driver of the Day:

Race Results:

Additional Notes:

Charles Leclerc strategy was extremely effective to keep his place in the race Aswell as helping his teammate in the process. Charles Leclerc found out the George Russel was slowing down to safe his tires and make sure he can go the whole race without pitting. This meant that this was creating a 20 second gap to the people Infront of George (Lando, Carlos, Oscar and Charles) meaning any one of them could pit. Now this is fatal for Charles as if any of the people behind him pitted they would be on fresher tires and inevitably overtake Charles. Charles stopped this from happening when he slowed down and created a half a second gap to Oscar meaning the gap to George wouldn’t make it to the full 20 seconds. However, there was a chance that if Charles pitted before everyone else behind him, he would be able to take the lead back. None of that happened however and Charles and everyone else did not pit.
Kevin Magnussen is on 10 penalty points meaning when he gets to 12 penalty points, he will have a race ban. His driving in the past races has been seen as wild and extremely passionate. In my opinion Kevin Magnussen is driving way to deranged based off of his place in the penalty point system. I believe Kevin Magnussen is trying to get a seat for next year in an F1 team and this might fuel his desperate and risky racing techniques. Although he is trying very hard most of his high-risk moves are met with DNF and penalties.