Good morning! Are you excited as much as me?
This is the most important day in Louis' life as a racing driver. In fact, he drove for the first time a F1 car, none other than for Haas, the team for which his tutor RoGro races!
At 6:39 AM (Italian time) Louis completed 6 laps with a time of 1:43.638... after 10 months since I opened my blog you must know my obsession for lap times! Fun fact: he was so much excited that he was not able to put on his racing suit. A mechanic had to help him, there is a pic on Twitter.
After an hour of testing, his time was 1:41.197. At 8:00 AM, he had completed 29 laps with a time of 1:40.154 on the ultrasoft rubber. At 10:04 AM, before the lunch break, he was one of the drivers who completed most of the laps: 51.
11:00 AM: drivers came back to hit the track. Our hero was 7th with a time of 1:39.751. At 11:05 AM he had 60 laps under his belt. 14 minutes later, he improved his time to 1:39.069. #HitMeBabyOneMoreTime
At 11:38 AM Lou switched to hypersoft tyres and completed some brief stints. At 12:14 AM his laps were 68.
At 1:14 PM Lou's laps were 74, and less than 40 minutes to the end they were 90, a number that here in Italy is associated to fear! At 2:29 PM he completed the 100th lap.
This also was a remarkable day for the Lord and Master of the Universe, aka Prince Charles Leclerc, as he made his official debut with the Prancing Horse, for Pierre Gasoline, who made his debut for RedBull in which he will take Dani-Smile's place, for Bobby the Cube, which comes back to F1 after 8 years, for Sir George, who celebrated his FIA F2 title driving for Williams, for Carlitos, which had so much fun driving McLaren as his childhood hero Fernando did... Unfortunately my Italian goodfella Antonio Giovinazzi, the Prince of Martina Franca, stopped on track, causing a red flag.
I enjoyed so much these tests! Now the season is officially done and dusted. Stay tuned on my blog for some extra surprises!
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