Ferrari’s drivers filled the top three positions in Formula 1’s single day of post-season testing at Yas Marina Circuit on Tuesday.
The day ran as a single nine-hour session, and with each team able to run two cars. One was specifically for a driver with less than three grand prix starts to their name, and the other was to used primarily for testing prototypes of Pirelli’s 2023 tyres.Ferrari ran their junior Robert Shwartzman in their ‘young driver’ car, while their usual race weekend line-up shared the second vehicle. Charles Leclerc ran the majority of the day before handing over to Carlos Sainz Jnr for the final three-and-a-half hours.
Sainz set the fastest lap, on a more rubbered-in track, with a 1:25’245 effort which put him 0.138 seconds ahead of Leclerc, but almost one-and-a-half seconds off Max Verstappen’s pole position time from last weekend. Sainz also covered more laps than Leclerc, 65 to his team mate’s 56.
Leclerc had lost useful track time earlier in the day due to yellow and red flags. New AlphaTauri signing Nyck de Vries, Red Bull’s reserve driver Liam Lawson and Shwartzman – who was third fastest overall – had spins early on, then Oscar Piastri caused a stoppage when his McLaren stopped on track.
Pierre Gasly got his first taste of life as an Alpine driver, in unbranded overalls, by going fourth-fastest ahead of Verstappen plus new Williams duo Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant. De Vries had a productive start to his time at AlphaTauri, as he set more laps than anyone else and was eighth-fastest.
Other young drivers taking part in the test included Lawson in 10th, Alpine junior Jack Doohan in 11th, Formula 2 champions Oscar Piastri and Felipe Drugovich (Aston Martin) in 14th and 15th, Haas reserve Pietro Fittipaldi in 21st and then F2 team mates Frederik Vesti (Mercedes) and Theo Pourchaire (Alfa Romeo) at the bottom of the times.
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Pos. | Car number | Driver | Team | Model | Best time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jnr | Ferrari | F1-75 | 1’25.245 | 65 | |
2 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | F1-75 | 1’25.383 | 0.138 | 56 |
3 | 39 | Robert Shwartzman | Ferrari | F1-75 | 1’25.400 | 0.155 | 116 |
4 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | A522 | 1’25.689 | 0.444 | 130 |
5 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | RB18 | 1’25.845 | 0.600 | 76 |
6 | 23 | Alexander Albon | Williams | FW44 | 1’25.959 | 0.714 | 118 |
7 | 45 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | FW44 | 1’26.063 | 0.818 | 82 |
8 | 41 | Nyck de Vries | AlphaTauri | AT03 | 1’26.111 | 0.866 | 151 |
9 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | AMR22 | 1’26.263 | 1.018 | 70 |
10 | 36 | Liam Lawson | Red Bull | RB18 | 1’26.281 | 1.036 | 111 |
11 | 82 | Jack Doohan | Alpine | A522 | 1’26.297 | 1.052 | 111 |
12 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | AMR22 | 1’26.312 | 1.067 | 97 |
13 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull | RB18 | 1’26.333 | 1.088 | 88 |
14 | 28 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | MCL36 | 1’26.340 | 1.095 | 123 |
15 | 34 | Felipe Drugovich | Aston Martin | AMR22 | 1’26.595 | 1.350 | 106 |
16 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo | C42 | 1’26.709 | 1.464 | 129 |
17 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | W13 | 1’26.750 | 1.505 | 67 |
18 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | MCL36 | 1’26.890 | 1.645 | 115 |
19 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas | VF-22 | 1’27.000 | 1.755 | 110 |
20 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | AT03 | 1’27.123 | 1.878 | 135 |
21 | 51 | Pietro Fittipaldi | Haas | VF-22 | 1’27.172 | 1.927 | 99 |
22 | 21 | Frederik Vesti | Mercedes | W13 | 1’27.216 | 1.971 | 124 |
23 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | W13 | 1’27.240 | 1.995 | 73 |
24 | 98 | Theo Pourchaire | Alfa Romeo | C42 | 1’27.591 | 2.346 | 106 |
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Jere (@jerejj)
22nd November 2022, 15:18
The first time in a while with a Ferrari top 3 in any session & something that probably won’t happen again soon.
hyoko
22nd November 2022, 19:43
Well, when was the last time we had 3 Ferrari drivers in any position?
MattDS (@mattds)
22nd November 2022, 22:06
Italy 1976.
And the last Ferrari 1-2-3 finish in a race was the 1961 British Grand Prix.
I don’t know if that was the last session where we had a Ferrari 1-2-3 – lots of data to go through and not sure if all historical data of free practices has been preserved somewhere.
hyoko
23rd November 2022, 20:43
‘61? The Sharknose? Oh what a surprise.
Well, thanks for the info
Bitten&Hisses (@al-perry)
22nd November 2022, 17:34
24 drivers… Am I dreaming? Hopefully in 2026…
AlexS
23rd November 2022, 2:24
Nice lap time for Robert, did he already had driven the F1-75 on track?
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
23rd November 2022, 7:01
Very surprised to see this: the big 3 brought 3 cars, plus aston martin, while the others only brought 2, maybe for money reasons, at least some of them like haas and williams.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
23rd November 2022, 7:03
Ah, no, says 2 cars early on, still unusual that 4 teams ran 3 drivers and the other 6 teams only 2.
MacLeod (@macleod)
23rd November 2022, 8:06
2 cars the car for the 2023 were used by the two racing drivers for Red Bull Mac and Sergio morning and afternoon while the other car was for the newbie the whole day.
Craig S
24th November 2022, 1:52
One two three, gonna have a cup of tea…