Ferrari's Carlos Sainz celebrated his 29th birthday and kept the home crowd happy with the fastest lap in practice for the Italian Grand Prix on Friday after Formula One leader Max Verstappen set the early pace.
The Spaniard lapped Monza's 'Temple of Speed' with a best time of one minute 21.355 seconds with McLaren's Lando Norris second and 0.019 slower in a second session that was twice red-flagged.
"I think the running in general was okay, but in the short run I was blocked a bit in sector two, then in the long run we didn’t really get to do a lot of laps." Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and McLaren's Oscar Piastri were fourth in the first and second sessions respectively.Verstappen won at Monza last year, with Leclerc starting on pole, and has been in dominant form this season with 11 wins so far.
"That means we have a bit of work to do overnight to get the setup in the right place for the rest of the weekend."Both of the Ferrari drivers and Russell started the day with new power units, within their allocation of four for the season and therefore without penalty.
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