F1 Azerbaijan GP: Max Verstappen tops practice as Pierre Gasly’s Alpine goes up in flames
It was a busy 60 minutes of running in Baku with teams limited due to there being just one practice session ahead of qualifying this afternoon due to F1’s condensed sprint race format.
The reigning world champion left it late to take to the top of the timesheets, beating Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc by less than a tenth.
Red Bull teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez looked like he was going to top t෴he session, however, he was beaten by Leclerc by 0.2s.
As the chequered flag ཧfell, Verstappen stormed to the top with a 1m42.315, nipping ahead of the lead Ferrari driver.
Perez improved again but it wasn’t enough to get ahead of either Verstappen or Leclerc, settling for third ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz, who was 0.5s down.
The condensed session was curtailed by a dramatic fire which caused a red flag with 45 minutes🗹 on the clock.
ꦑA hydraulic leak meant Gasly’s Alpine caught fire, halting the session for 12 minutes.
Things got worse for Alpine when 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon was forced out of the session with just eight laps on the board due to a pote🌠ntial issue with the rear of his car.
Outside of Red Bull and Ferrari,168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris starred in the u🍬pgraded McLaren with the fifth-fastest time.
Similarly, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nyck de Vries impressed for AlphaTauri as 🍷he beat both Aston Martins.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll led 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, who didn’t set a time on the soft tyres.
The Spaniard’s running was compromised by a DRS issue which 🍒was later fixed.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alexander Albon was ninth for Williams, while168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Zhou Guanyu completed the top 10.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton was only 11th after his runnin💜g was compromised by a brake issue 🦩in the first part of FP1.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell was dowꦑn in 17th, like Hamilton, setting his 💝best time on the mediums.
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