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2020 F1 Belgian Grand Prix practice results
Max Verstappen set the pace on the opening day of Belgian Grand Prix practice at Spa-Francorchamps on Friday for Red Bull Racing.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Aug 28, 2020, 2:55 PM
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Mercedes dominated the first practice session, with Valtteri Bottas outpacing Lewis Hamilton by 0.069s with a lap time of 1m44.493s. Verstappen was best of the rest, but 0.375s off the pace for Red Bull, ahead of the Racing Points of Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll.
The Ferrari-powered Haas pairing and Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi failed to set times in this session, with both Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen having engine changes ahead of FP2.
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In the second session, Verstappen leapt to the fore with a lap of 1m43.744s. He was 0.048s faster than the surprise of the session, Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo. Hamilton was the best part of a tenth of a second slower, in third having made a mistake the final corner and lost time on his fastest lap.
Ricciardo’s session ended early, however, when he was forced to pull off on the Kemmel Straight with 20 minutes of the session remaining due to a lack of hydraulic pressure.
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The second Red Bull of Alexander Albon was fourth fastest, ahead of Perez, Bottas and McLaren’s Lando Norris. FP2 was briefly red flagged when an advertising board became dislodged on the exit of the first corner.
It was a horrible day for Ferrari, with Charles Leclerc's best time being 1.6s off the pace.
F1 Belgian Grand Prix Free Practice 1 results
Cla Driver Chassis Engine Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes Mercedes 18 1'44.493 241.302 2 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes Mercedes 17 1'44.562 0.069 0.069 241.143 3 Max Verstappen
Red Bull Honda 20 1'44.574 0.081 0.012 241.115 4 Sergio Perez
Racing Point Mercedes 22 1'44.629 0.136 0.055 240.988 5 Lance Stroll
Racing Point Mercedes 22 1'44.868 0.375 0.239 240.439 6 Alex Albon
Red Bull Honda 22 1'45.049 0.556 0.181 240.025 7 Esteban Ocon
Renault Renault 20 1'45.099 0.606 0.050 239.910 8 Carlos Sainz Jr.
McLaren Renault 24 1'45.222 0.729 0.123 239.630 9 Daniel Ricciardo
Renault Renault 21 1'45.225 0.732 0.003 239.623 10 Lando Norris
McLaren Renault 28 1'45.274 0.781 0.049 239.512 11 Daniil Kvyat
AlphaTauri Honda 25 1'45.447 0.954 0.173 239.119 12 Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri Honda 17 1'45.503 1.010 0.056 238.992 13 Kimi Raikkonen
Alfa Romeo Ferrari 19 1'45.704 1.211 0.201 238.537 14 Charles Leclerc
Ferrari Ferrari 18 1'45.759 1.266 0.055 238.413 15 Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari Ferrari 15 1'46.179 1.686 0.420 237.470 16 Nicholas Latifi
Williams Mercedes 19 1'46.488 1.995 0.309 236.781 17 George Russell
Williams Mercedes 21 1'46.570 2.077 0.082 236.599 18 Kevin Magnussen
Haas Ferrari 1 19 Romain Grosjean
Haas Ferrari 2 20 Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo Ferrari 2 View full results
F1 Belgian Grand Prix Free Practice 2 results
Cla Driver Chassis Engine Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Max Verstappen
Red Bull Honda 21 1'43.744 243.044 2 Daniel Ricciardo
Renault Renault 12 1'43.792 0.048 0.048 242.932 3 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes Mercedes 23 1'43.840 0.096 0.048 242.819 4 Alex Albon
Red Bull Honda 21 1'44.134 0.390 0.294 242.134 5 Sergio Perez
Racing Point Mercedes 23 1'44.137 0.393 0.003 242.127 6 Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes Mercedes 27 1'44.162 0.418 0.025 242.069 7 Lando Norris
McLaren Renault 22 1'44.168 0.424 0.006 242.055 8 Esteban Ocon
Renault Renault 23 1'44.208 0.464 0.040 241.962 9 Carlos Sainz Jr.
McLaren Renault 23 1'44.474 0.730 0.266 241.346 10 Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri Honda 27 1'44.600 0.856 0.126 241.055 11 Lance Stroll
Racing Point Mercedes 23 1'44.678 0.934 0.078 240.875 12 Daniil Kvyat
AlphaTauri Honda 26 1'44.826 1.082 0.148 240.535 13 Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo Ferrari 29 1'44.861 1.117 0.035 240.455 14 Kimi Raikkonen
Alfa Romeo Ferrari 23 1'44.896 1.152 0.035 240.375 15 Charles Leclerc
Ferrari Ferrari 19 1'45.440 1.696 0.544 239.135 16 George Russell
Williams Mercedes 25 1'45.463 1.719 0.023 239.082 17 Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari Ferrari 21 1'45.683 1.939 0.220 238.585 18 Nicholas Latifi
Williams Mercedes 26 1'45.774 2.030 0.091 238.379 19 Romain Grosjean
Haas Ferrari 12 1'45.834 2.090 0.060 238.244 20 Kevin Magnussen
Haas Ferrari 12 1'46.242 2.498 0.408 237.329 View full results
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