Hamilton, who leads the world championship by two points going into this weekend, dominated🐟 the first🐽 hour-long practice session at Istanbul Park to finish 0.425s clear of Red Bull’s Verstappen. 

The seven-time world champion will take a 10-place grid penalty for Sunday’s race in Turkey after Mercedes 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历♍史:elected to fit a fresh engin🔯e on his car, having concluded it could not risk leaving H🔯amil𝓰ton on just two power units for the rest of the season. 

Verstappen struggled to match Hamilton’s FP1 pace as he reported having “no front end” in his Red Bull, whic🍬h is sporting a striking one-off white livery this weekend as a trib꧟ute to outgoing engine partner Honda.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was third-quickest, just 0.051s shy of Verstappen an𝐆d nearly two-tenths clear 🅷of Valtteri Bottas’s Mercedes. 

Carlos Sainz, who will start from the back of the grid after taking Ferrari’s upgraded engine, rounded out the top five ahea♛d of Alpine’s Esteban Ocon and Lando Norris, who was the fastest McLaren driver in sev🍰enth. 

Pierre Gasly made it six dไifferent teams to feature in𓆏side the top 10 as he took eighth in his AlphaTauri, ahead of two-time world champion Fernando Alonso and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez. 

Mercedes-bound George Russell continued Williams’ recent impressive upswing in form as he finished the opening practice sessio🉐n 11th ahead of ✱Daniel Ricciardo’s McLaren. 

As has often been the case this season, F1 rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin were anchored to the very bottom of the timesheets in Haas’ underdeveꦑlopeꦯd 2021 car, over 2 seconds off the pace.

Full results from opening practice at the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix.