F1 Saudi Arabian GP: Max Verstappen leads Red Bull one-two in opening practice
The double world champion, whose delayed arrival in Jeddah meant he skip🤪ped Thursday’s media duties after battling a stomach bug this week, was 0.483s faster than Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez.♋
Having dominated F1 2023’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix a fortnight ago, Verstappen and Red Bull made an ominous start to the weekend around the𓂃 high-speed Jeddah 🏅track.
Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso was best of the rest in third, 0.698s adrift of Verstappen’s FP1 benchmark and a couple of tenthsℱ fas๊ter than teammate Lance Stroll.
George Russell pipped teammate Lewis Hamil🍨ton by just 0.016s in fifth but both Mercedes drivers wound up over a second off the pace.
Carlos Sainz was seventh-quickest for Ferrari, ahead of Alpine’s Pierre Gasly, Wiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlliams’ Alex Albon and AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda, w༺ho completed the top-10 order.
Charles Leclerc, who is carrying a 10-place grid penalty into the weekend for power unit changes, was only 11th, while McLaren’s Lando Norris was slowest of alꦍl in 20th.
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