Sep 5, 2025

Promising Friday for Carlos Sainz in Friday practice at the Italian GP

Friday, 5 September 2025:
- Free Practice 1: P3, 1:20.650, 25 laps
- Free Practice 2: P3, 1:19.974, 30 laps

  • Carlos Sainz has put together one of the most solid Fridays of the entire season in the Italian GP, where he has set the third fastest time in both practice sessions.
  • The Williams race driver has worked with the three tyre compounds available for this weekend, covering 17 laps on the Hard compound in Free Practice 1 and 21 on the Medium in Free Practice 2, which he chose for his long runs. In both sessions he also used the Soft compound to go for his fastest lap.
  • The Spanish race driver feels he has a good baseline, but he thinks the set-up of his FW47 can still be improved in order to maximize his chances in tomorrow’s Qualifying session.

QUOTES:
“Carlos Sainz: Today has been a positive day and we seem to have good pace. There are still a few areas which I’d like to finetune, so I can feel a bit more comfortable throughout a few of the corners, but it’s good to have decent pace across both long and short runs. We’ll do some work on the setup tonight and hopefully we can carry this good form the rest of the weekend".

COMING UP:
Saturday, 6 September 2025:
- Free Practice 3: 12:30 local time (12:30 CEST)
- Qualifying: 16:00 local time (16:00 CEST)

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