F1 United States GP: Max Verstappen heads Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in competitive sole practice
🧸The newly-crowned three-time world champion, who has won the past two races at the Circuit of the Americas, finis🎉hed just 0.156s clear of Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari.
Lewis Hamilton was third-quickest and got within 0.281s of Verstappen’s benchmark in his upgraded Mercedes, 🦂which is sporting a modified floor for the Austin weeken🌠d.
The seven-time world champion did spent a bꦅrief spell at the top of the timesheets ahead of his old title rival⛎ Verstappen half-way through FP1.
The under-press❀ure Sergio Perez was fourth in the other Red Bull, three-tenths of a second behind teammate Verstappen.
Kevin Magnussen popped𝔍 his Haas into fifth place ahead of George R✱ussell’s Mercedes, Alex Albon’s Williams, and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.
Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly completed the top-10 order for Haas and Alpine respectively during the limited practജice running ahead of qualifying later on Friday.
After missing fivꦑe races with a broken hand, Daniel Ricciardo impressively got within a tenth of AlphaTauriꦚ teammate Yuki Tsunoda and took 14th in his first session back.
It proved to be a tricky session for McLaren, with Lando👍 Norris and Oscar ♕Piastri only 15th and 19th fastest.
Lance Stroll goes into qualifying on the back foot after bein🍸g limited to just𓆉 five laps, with Aston Martin discovering a brake issue on his front left.
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