The practice timesheet at the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix was notable because 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton was at the top, but also because 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris was at the bottom.

T⛦he McLaren driver finished 20th in the second practice session on Thursday but emerged unflustered.

Norris made ཧan error on the last sector while using soft tyres, forcing him to abort his lap, M💝cLaren CEO Zak Brown told Sky Sports.

Norris reacted🐼: “It’s been a reasonable day. I’m happy with how Thursday went overall.

“We made 🎉some progress with the car, there are still plenty of things to improve on, but we improved the balance and I got more comfortable, which is a good thing.

“I didn’t do a great job in putting a lap together, so it wasn’t a very representative day on the timesheets, b🌠ut overall, a good first day and a good start to the weekend.”

And🦂rܫea Stella, McLaren Team Principal, added: "Overall, a productive first day of practice. We had no major issues and we got through our test programme.

“Even though we’ve had 𒀰three days of testing, there is always a lot to finalise when it comes to the race weekend, and today we w🔥orked on setup.

“It was also important💦 to develop our understanding of the tyres in conditions that were colder in comparison to the test.

“Oscar had a good session both on nཧew tyres and long runs, while Lando couldn’t complete his single timed lap on the Soft, which meant his position in the classification was not very😼 meaningful.

“But we’re happy with the information 💖we’ve acquired, and we seem ꦬto be in a decent position to score points.

“We’ll try to maximise our package tomorrow and put ourselves in the best position for the 🔥rest of the weekend.”

Oscar Piastri finished in P5 in the session topped both both Me🌸rcedes drive⛎rs, to give a stronger hint about what McLaren might be capable of from Friday onwards.

“It was a good session,” Piastri reacted.

“I felt like we were pretty competitive in both low and hi🔴gh fuel running. It’ll be interesting to see what we’re like tomorrow, but I think it was a pretty solid day ov🅺erall.

“I w✃as𝐆 happy with my driving, and we got some good information out of the session.

“It will be interesting to see what the grid is like when all the sandb𓆏ags are gone, but I think we’re about where we expected to be and we’re in a good plac🐻e going into tomorrow.”

Thursday pract𒀰ice was full of intriguing results, not least Norris sitting bottom of the entire timesheet.

The pace of the two Mercedes was e💟ye-opening, while Red Bull’s Max Vers𝕴tappen languishing in sixth was even more unexpected.

Friday’s qualifying should of🅘fer a greater clue about what the 2024 F1 cars are truly capable of.