Lando Norris pips Max Verstappen to top red-flagged opening Spanish GP practice
Lando Norris edges out Max Verstappen t꧑o꧑ the fastest time in first practice at the F1 Spanish Grand Prix.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris set the early pace by heading Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in opening practice at the F1 Spanish Grand Prix.
The McLaren driver ⛄topped the FP1 timesheet with a best lap of 1m14.228 seconds as he edged out reigning world champion Verstappen by a mi🐈nuscule 0.024s.
Carlos Sainz - one of two home heroes for the Spanish crowd to cheer on - wo🀅und up third-fastest for Ferrari, 0.344s off Norris’ FP1 benchmark, though his time was set on the medium compound.
Having set the pace early on in the first hour-long practice session, George Russellও ended up fourth and nearly four-tenths adrift in his Mercedes.
ꦜSergio Perez was fifth in the other Red Bull, ahead of McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Lewis Hamilton🐲, who ran wide at Turn 10 and ended up a few tenths adrift of his Mercedes teammate Russell.
Esteban Ocon, Fernando Alonso and Alex Albon completed the rest of the top-10 order for Alpine, Aston Martin and Williams 🍨respectively.
Alonso caused the only red flag of FP1 when a piece of bodywork flew off his front wing and fell onto the racing line after he ran over the exit kerbs at the fast right-ꦚhander of Turn 9.
Charles Leclerc was unhappy with his Ferrari car as he missed out on the top-10, finishing 11th 💙in the order.
The Monegasque complained hisꦰ car was “horrendous” during the early stages, ❀before reporting there was something wrong with his clutch.
Britain’s highly-rated Oliver Bearman was 19th-fastest and only two tenths off the other Haas driver, Kevin Magnussen, as he made his latest FP1 outing of the se🐷ason.
The 19-year-old Ferrari protege has been heavily-linked with a full-time Haas s༒eat for 2025, after his starring debut as an emergency stand-in for Sainz in Saudi Arabia earlier this year.
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