The 2022 season is finally underway! The weather was beautiful all day at the Barcelona circuit.<\/p>\n
Alfa Romeo stood out aesthetically by using a camouflage livery.<\/p>\n
The first one to set a time was Yuki Tsunoda, before the reigning world champion came and stole the fastest time from him (1’23″038).<\/p>\n
The two men from the Red Bull family were going to be matched by Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari number 16 (1’21″718).<\/p>\n
For Alfa Romeo and Haas, the day started off quite poorly: less than 10 laps during the first hour and a half. At the Italo-Swiss team, it was Robert Kubica at the wheel and Nikita Mazepin for the American clan.<\/p>\n
At Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton was the first to test the W13, but far from revealing the full potential of the German machine.<\/p>\n
During the morning session, Max Verstappen went off track but without any consequences.<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc has made way for Carlos Sainz in the Ferrari team.<\/p>\n
The morning was rather calm but the afternoon was much more diligent for all the drivers and teams.<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc had maintained his first place until the last hour: Lando Norris, equipped with C4 tires, allowed himself to lower the best time (1’19″951).<\/p>\n
The problems with Haas, related to a leak, seemed to have been resolved. Mick Schumacher has returned to the track.<\/p>\n
The morning was rather uneventful for Alpine, just like the rest of the day. Fernando Alonso just made it into the top 10.<\/p>\n
Lando Norris improved by four tenths (1’19″5). He will never be caught up and will keep the lead of this first day of testing.<\/p>\n
Daniel Ricciardo, Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon, Sergio Perez, and Guanyu Zhou were the only ones who did not take the track.<\/p>\n
Results of the first day of winter testing in Barcelona – Wednesday, February 23, 2022<\/b><\/p>\n Wednesday, February 23rd, Lando Norris set the fastest time of the first day of winter testing. He is ahead of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":35722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[324,947,1126],"class_list":["post-7344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-essais-hivernaux","tag-mclaren","tag-norris"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n
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