Round one to Max Verstappen on a very good morning for the circuit owners, Red Bull, with both their teams running well at the front. Mercedes third and fourth.
After the pain of last Sunday in France, when their cars slipped all the way out of the points from strong starting positions, Scuderia Ferrari was keen to gather a lot of data on tyre performance today, in order to try and avoid or at least partially fix the issues encountered at the Circuit Paul Ricard last weekend.
It’s 10th and 11th for Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz respectively at the end of the first free practice session for the 2021 Styrian Grand Prix, with both drivers finishing with an almost identical best lap time (1:06.629 for Charles, 1:06.630 for Carlos), on the soft tyres. In the second half of FP1, the Ferrari drivers focused on the long runs with the medium tyres.
A few spinners in this opening session – with Carlos Sainz’s the most dramatic, as he briefly blocked the pit exit slip.
Styrian Grand Prix – Here are the complete results from the first practice session of the 2021 F1 World Championship race from the Red Bull Ring.
Results (Classification):
- Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing – 1:05.910
- Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri +0.256
- Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +0.422
- Valtteri Bottas Mercedes +0.476
- Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri +0.487
- Fernando Alonso Alpine +0.609
- Esteban Ocon Alpine +0.641
- Lance Stroll Aston Martin +0.674
- Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo +0.704
- Charles Leclerc Scuderia Ferrari +0.719
- Carlos Sainz Scuderia Ferrari +0.720
- Daniel Ricciardo McLaren +0.759
- Sergio Perez Red Bull Racing +0.786
- Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin +0.798
- George Russell Williams Racing +0.938
- Lando Norris McLaren +0.951
- Nicholas Latifi Williams Racing +1.270
- Mick Schumacher Haas +1.563
- Robert Kubica Alfa Romeo +1.913
- Nikita Mazepin Haas +2.171
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