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Grand Prix F1 practice results: Verstappen dominates in Styria
World Championship leader Max Verstappen dominated the opening day of Styrian Grand Prix practice at the Red Bull Ring on Friday, the eighth round of the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship season.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Jun 25, 2021, 4:57 PM
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The Friday practice sessions have each been cut to one hour in 2021, instead of the usual 90 minutes each. Verstappen topped both of them, ahead of Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) in FP1 and McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo in FP2.
Styrian Grand Prix FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from Gasly
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Max Verstappen
Red Bull 34 1'05.910 235.848 2 Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri 32 1'06.166 0.256 0.256 234.936 3 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes 32 1'06.332 0.422 0.166 234.348 4 Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes 34 1'06.386 0.476 0.054 234.157 5 Yuki Tsunoda
AlphaTauri 36 1'06.397 0.487 0.011 234.119 6 Fernando Alonso
Alpine 35 1'06.519 0.609 0.122 233.689 7 Esteban Ocon
Alpine 35 1'06.551 0.641 0.032 233.577 8 Lance Stroll
Aston Martin 33 1'06.584 0.674 0.033 233.461 9 Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo 29 1'06.614 0.704 0.030 233.356 10 Charles Leclerc
Ferrari 36 1'06.629 0.719 0.015 233.303 11 Carlos Sainz Jr.
Ferrari 33 1'06.630 0.720 0.001 233.300 12 Daniel Ricciardo
McLaren 38 1'06.669 0.759 0.039 233.163 13 Sergio Perez
Red Bull 33 1'06.696 0.786 0.027 233.069 14 Sebastian Vettel
Aston Martin 32 1'06.708 0.798 0.012 233.027 15 George Russell
Williams 31 1'06.848 0.938 0.140 232.539 16 Lando Norris
McLaren 35 1'06.861 0.951 0.013 232.494 17 Nicholas Latifi
Williams 31 1'07.180 1.270 0.319 231.390 18 Mick Schumacher
Haas 30 1'07.473 1.563 0.293 230.385 19 Robert Kubica
Alfa Romeo 30 1'07.823 1.913 0.350 229.196 20 Nikita Mazepin
Haas 31 1'08.081 2.171 0.258 228.328 View full results
What happened in Free Practice 1?
Verstappen set the medium-tyred benchmark at 1m06.511s, before the soft tyres runs began around the halfway point. Carlos Sainz spun his Ferrari at Turn 1, blocking the pitlane as Bottas wanted to leave on his new soft tyres.
Using softs, Hamilton took P1 with 1m06.390s, which was quickly beaten – by 0.004s – by Bottas. Hamilton then went fastest again on his second push lap on 1m06.332s.
AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly took a turn at the top with a lap of 1m06.166s, just before Verstappen set his session-best 1m05.910s. Bottas was on a faster lap but ran too wide at the final corner, losing a chunk of time and had his lap deleted for track limits anyway.
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Gasly stayed second, a quarter of a second behind Verstappen, with Hamilton in third, 0.054s ahead of Bottas. Yuki Tsunoda was fifth in the second AlphaTauri.
The Alpines of Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon were sixth and seventh respectively, ahead of Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) and the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Sainz. Sergio Perez spun his Red Bull at Turn 4 and was only 13th fastest.
Robert Kubica drove Kimi Raikkonen’s car in this session, and spun at Turn 3 early on, but he was still faster than Haas’s Nikita Mazepin.
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Styrian Grand Prix FP2 results: Verstappen fastest from Ricciardo
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Max Verstappen
Red Bull 37 1'05.412 237.644 2 Daniel Ricciardo
McLaren 35 1'05.748 0.336 0.336 236.430 3 Esteban Ocon
Alpine 35 1'05.790 0.378 0.042 236.279 4 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes 35 1'05.796 0.384 0.006 236.257 5 Fernando Alonso
Alpine 39 1'05.827 0.415 0.031 236.146 6 Sebastian Vettel
Aston Martin 38 1'05.934 0.522 0.107 235.763 7 Lando Norris
McLaren 39 1'05.994 0.582 0.060 235.548 8 Lance Stroll
Aston Martin 36 1'06.079 0.667 0.085 235.245 9 Sergio Perez
Red Bull 36 1'06.089 0.677 0.010 235.210 10 Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo 37 1'06.145 0.733 0.056 235.010 11 Carlos Sainz Jr.
Ferrari 39 1'06.147 0.735 0.002 235.003 12 Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes 32 1'06.251 0.839 0.104 234.634 13 Charles Leclerc
Ferrari 39 1'06.270 0.858 0.019 234.567 14 Kimi Raikkonen
Alfa Romeo 41 1'06.297 0.885 0.027 234.472 15 Yuki Tsunoda
AlphaTauri 39 1'06.451 1.039 0.154 233.928 16 George Russell
Williams 39 1'06.628 1.216 0.177 233.307 17 Mick Schumacher
Haas 29 1'06.886 1.474 0.258 232.407 18 Nikita Mazepin
Haas 30 1'07.404 1.992 0.518 230.621 19 Nicholas Latifi
Williams 32 1'07.669 2.257 0.265 229.718 20 Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri 0 View full results
What happened in Free Practice 2?
In FP2, Verstappen set the initial pace on hard tyres at 1m06.722s as rain drops began to fall on a dry track. Alonso beat that time on medium tyres, with 1m06.651s.
With spots of rain and a strong tailwind, Perez locked up and ran wide at Turn 3 and doing likewise were Verstappen and Hamilton. Meanwhile, Sainz spun into the gravel and escaped at Turn 4.
Hamilton then went to the top, setting his 1m06.358s on hard tyres, until Verstappen beat him with 1m06.192s as the rain threat abated.
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Bottas went early with his soft-tyre run but failed to beat Verstappen’s lap. Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll leapt to the head of the times on 1m06.192s on soft rubber, which was beaten by teammate Sebastian Vettel on 1m05.934s.
Hamilton was next to try softs, going top on 1m05.796s, before Ocon beat that by 0.006s with 1m05.790s.
Hamilton went fastest again on 1m05.335s, but this lap was deleted due to exceeding track limits at the final corner, so Verstappen’s next lap of 1m05.412s proved to be the quickest of the day.
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Ricciardo was second fastest – three tenths off Verstappen’s pace – ahead of Ocon, Hamilton, Alonso, Vettel, Lando Norris (McLaren), Stroll, Perez and Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo).
Bottas was only 12th, sandwiched by the Ferraris, and his day went from bad to worse when he spun exiting his pit box on fresh hard tyres – fortunately without hitting anything or anyone. The McLaren mechanics, who were out in the pitlane at the time, helped him reverse and rejoin.
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Elsewhere, Mazepin spun at Turn 4 and rejoined, while FP1 star Gasly had an issue with his power unit and watched the entire session from pitwall.
The threatened rainstorm never arrived, allowing teams to complete their race simulation runs until the chequered flag.
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