Verstappen Paces Leclerc in opening training for the Austrian Grand Prix

Max Verstappen the two ousted Scuderia Ferrari Driver in opening training for the Grand Prix of Austria on Friday morning.

The Red Bull Racing Drivers and the current championship leader achieved a best time of 1: 05.143 to start the session with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr. an encouraging second and third fastest for Ferrari.

All teams received prototype tires for this session from session Pirelli, and a lot of running in the early days focused on these tires, which from the Great Britain Grand Prix further.

But it was the soft compound tire with which Verstappen successfully took first place while being the main competitor in the championship Lewis Hamilton only ended up seventh for that Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team.

Valtteri Bottas was fourth fastest in the other Mercedes, a little more than three tenths of a second behind the pace while Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda‘s Yuki Tsunoda was an impressive fifth, two tenths of a second and four places ahead of his teammate Pierre Gasly. Tsunoda had a small moment after hitting the gravel at the exit of turn four and driving through the gravel at turn five.

Another impressive achievement came from Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN‘s Kimi Raikkonen Sixth, with the second Red Bull of Sergio Perez Eighth behind Hamilton. Gasly and McLaren F1 team‘s Lando Norris completed the top ten.

Esteban Ocon missed the top ten for that Alpine F1 team by a tenth of a second, with the French just ahead of the second McLaren of Daniel Ricciardo, while Lance walk finished thirteenth despite suffering two twists in his own Aston Martin Cognizant Formula 1 team AMR21.

Stroll’s first adventure resulted in him sliding over the gravel on corner six and spinning onto the grass on the other side of the track, while his second spin was on the final corner where he was lucky enough to bypass the barrier. He was able to improve his teammates even better Sebastian Vettel in the session, with the 15th fastest of the Germans, just behind Alpines Alpine Guanyu Zhouwho finished an impressive 14th place on his free practice debut when he was replaced Fernando Alonso.

Another rider who attended the session was Callum Ilott, with the British instead of Alfa Romeo Rome Antonio Giovinazzi for his second run of the season. Ilott, the 2020 FIA Formula 2 The runner-up was sixteen fastest, just ahead of the man who beat him to the title, Mick Schumacher, of Uralkali Haas F1 Team.

Roy Nissany, runs instead of George Russell at the Williams racesHe finished eighteen fastest, just ahead of his team-mate Nicholas Latifi, while Nikita Mazepin brought up the rear in the second Haas.

Many drivers had moments during the session with mistakes in turn one from both Mercedes drivers, Norris, Mazepin and both Ferraris, while Leclerc also had another moment in turn three.

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