F1 Austrian GP: Max Verstappen quickest from upgraded Ferrari pair in sole practice
The reigning world champion left✤ it late to top the timesheets as he posted a 1m05.742s in his dominant Red🉐 Bull RB19.
Verstappen clocked his best lap on medium tyres but was still 0.241s ahe🌳ad of Carlos Sainz, and 0.270s clear of Charles Leclerc, both of whom were running the faster soft tyres on their upgraded Ferraris.
Lewis Hamilton spent much of the session at the top of the order having set the early benchmark on hard tyr🍃es, but the Mercedes driver ended up half a second behind Verstap💦pen during the qualifying simulation runs.
Sergio Perez, who skipped Thursday’s media day after becoming unwell, was well enough to drive as he finished fi🐻fth, 0.520s off his Red 🐬Bull teammate on the same compound.
Sixth place went the way of Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll, who pipped Haas’ Kevin Magnu🦋ssen and 🦋teammate Fernando Alonso.
George Russell s💃truggled to match the pace of his Mercedes teammate as he took ninth, ahead of Zhou Guanyu, who ꦆrounded out the top-10 for Alfa Romeo.
Lando N🌳orris failed to get a soft tyre run in at the end of the session ♋as he finished slowest of all in 20th, despite running McLaren’s heavily-upgraded MCL60.
Qualifying for Sunday's grand pr💟ix is up next and takes place at 4pm UK time.
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