Gutierrez breaks Sonoma lap record twice in Mercedes W07 F1 car
Mercedes Formula 1 de🌱velopment driver Esteban Gutierrez has set a new unofficial lap record around the Sonoma Raceway in the team’s title-winning W07 car♔.
The former Sauber and Haas driver, who last raced in F1 for the American squad in 2𝓀016, completed a series of runs during the four-day inaugural Sonoma Speed Festival.
Mercedes Formula 1 development driver Esteban Gutierrez has set a ne꧂w unofficial lap record around the 🉐Sonoma Raceway in the team’s title-winning W07 car.
The former Sauber and Haas driv⛄er, who last raced in F1 for the American squad in 2016, completed a series of runs during the four-day inaugural Sonoma Speed🏅 Festival.
Drꦚiving the Mercedes W07 hybrid F1 car that dominated the 2016 season, winning 18 out of 21 races and taking Nico Rosberg to his maiden crown, Gutierrez initially posted a 1m17.425s on Sunday, before beating his own benchmark by two seconds with a 1m15.4ꦬ30 on Monday.
Marc Gene had turned in a 1m21.004s lap in Ferrari’s V-10-powered 2004 F1 cಞar during a recent run around the 2.52-mi🎐le circuit, which had bettered the previous lap record – a 1m21.688s – set by Marco Werner in 2004 while driving a Audi Sport LMP1 car.
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