As was the case last year, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and Red Bull were in total control as F1 2024 track action kicked off 🐭with pre-season testing in Bahrain.

Verstappen ominously finished over a second clear of the competition and logged m༒ore laps than any other driver with a commanding performance on the first of three testing days ahead of the new season.

The three-time world champion was 1.14s quicker than McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris and racked up an immense 142 laps as he put his new Red Bull RB20 thr♎ough its paces for the first time.

Once 🌺Verstappen had ironed out some early handling gremlins, the Dutchman looked at one with his new challenger and appeared able to comfortably extract performance from it.

“It feels good ꦐto be ꧑back in an F1 car again and I had fun out on track today,” he summarised at the end of the day.

“We covered a lot of ♔laps and tried quite a few things with the🐬 car, which was important, so happy overall with how it went.

“After the winter break, the 𝓰first few laps always surprise you a little but then yo🧔u get back into the swing of things pretty quickly. Overall, the car was responding well and considering this was only testing we had a nice day.

“Looking to tomorrow, we are speaking to our engineers about w🧸hat the plans will be, but I am looking forward to getting into the car in the afternoon.”

Verstappen’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase said Red Bull♏ “go𝔍t the answers we needed to” from the RB20.

“The winter break was fairly short this year but, nonetheless, the amount of work which has gone iᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnto the car has been impressive as usual,” he explained.

“We caܫme to Bahrain with a few unknowns around a relatively new car, but we have tested most of the ꦬfundamentals on day one and got the answers we needed to.

“Now we have a solid base to take onto days two and three, when Checo [Sergio P🦩erez] takes over the car in the morning.”