Nov 21, 2024

Carlos Sainz is fourth on a Friday practice at Vegas marked by low temperatures

Thursday, 21 November 2024
- Free Practice 1: P6, 1:36.218, 26 laps
- Free Practice 2: P4, 1:34.105, 29 laps

  • First practice day for Carlos Sainz and Scuderia Ferrari, who worked in the SF-24 in much cooler conditions than in the last few events. Temperatures went as low as 10 degrees, both in the air and the track surface.
  • In Free Practice 1, the Spanish race driver focused on the Medium tyre, on which he covered two runs. He also tested the Soft option, which he used to set his fastest lap (1:36.218).
  • Carlos changed several elements of the set-up of his car for Free Practice 2, where he run on the same compounds. The Spaniard set the fourth fastest time of the day (1:34.105) on the Soft rubber, but he feels there is still an important margin of improvement for the rest of the weekend.

QUOTES:
“A complicated Thursday here in Vegas due to a challenging track with very low grip which gave us a strange feeling inside the car. For FP2 we tried something different but we are still not satisfied with where we are and we need to keep working on it. Hopefully the analysis tonight will help finding our biggest areas of improvement and we can arrive to Qualifying on a better form. Race pace wasn’t too bad, but still a lot to do”.

COMING UP:
Friday, 22 November 2024
- Free Practice 3: 18:30 local time (+1 03:30 CET)
- Qualifying: 22:00 local time (+1 07:00 CET)

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