The practice timesheet at the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix was notable because 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton was at the top, but also because 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris was at the bottom.

The McLaren driver fi🥀nished 20th in the seco𒁃nd practice session on Thursday but emerged unflustered.

N🧜orris made an error on the last sector while using soft tyres, forcing him to abortᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ his lap, McLaren CEO Zak Brown told Sky Sports.

Norris reacted: “It’s been a reasonable day. I’m happy with 𒆙how Thursday went overall.

“We made some progress with the car, there are still plenty of 🐷things to improve on, but we improved the balance and I got more comfortable, which is a good thing.

“I didn’t do a great job in putting a lap together, so🌳 it ♔wasn’t a very representative day on the timesheets, but overall, a good first day and a good start to the weekend.”

Andrea Stella, McLaren Team Principal, added: "Overall, a productive first day of pꦆractice. We had no major issues and we got through our test programme.

“Even though we’ve had three day🍸s of testing, there is always a lot to finalise when it comes to the race weekend, and today we worked on setup.

“It was also important to develop our understanding of the tyres iꦑn conditions that were colder in comparison to the test.

“Oscar had a good session both on new tyres and ♓long runs, while Lando couldn’t complete his single timed lap on the Soft, which meant hiꦇs position in the classification was not very meaningful.

“But we’re happy with the information we’ve acquired, and we seem to be in a dece🌳nt position to score points.

“We’ll try to maximise our package tomorrow and put ou❀r♚selves in the best position for the rest of the weekend.”

Oscar Piastri finished in P5 in the session topped both both Mercedes🐲 drivers, to give a stronger hint about what McLaren might be capable ✅of from Friday onwards.

“It was a good session,” Piastri reacted.

“I felt like we were pretty competitive in both low and high ༺fuel running. It’ll be interesting to see what we’re like tomorrow, but I think it was a pretty solid d🌳ay overall.

“I was happy with my driving, and we got some good informatio🐎n out of the 🌌session.

“It will be interesting to see what the grid is like🥃 when all the sandbags are gone, but I think we’re about where we expected to be and we’re in a good plac💧e going into tomorrow.”

Thursday practice was full of intriguing results, not least Norris sitting bottom of the entire time﷽sheet.

The pace of the two Mercedes was eye-opening, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen languishing in sixt🐓h was even more unexpected.

Friday’s qualifying should offe꧂r a greater clue about what the 2024 F1 cars are truly capable𒅌 of.