The practice timesheet at the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix was notable because 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton was at the top, but also because 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris was at the bottom.

The McLar🔯en driver finished 20th in the second practice session on Thursday but emergeᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd unflustered.

Norris made an error on the last sector while using soft tyres꧑, forcing him to abort his lap, McLaren CEO Zak Brown told Sky Sports.

Norris reacted: “It’s been a reason꧒a🔯ble day. I’m happy with how Thursday went overall.

“We made some progress with the car, there are still plenty of things to improve on, but we improved the balanc♌e 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 timesheets๊, 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 practice. We had no major issue🦋s and we got through our test programme.

“E𝄹ven though we’ve had three days 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 in conditions that were colder in compar🌟ison 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, which𓃲 meant his position in the classification was not very meaningful.

“But 💝we’re happy with the information we’ve acquired, and we seem to be iꦬn a decent position to score points.

“👍We’ll try to maximise our package tomorrow and put ourselves in the best position for the rest of the weekend.”

Oscar Piastri finished in 𓂃P5 in the session topped both both Mercedes drivers, to give a strong🗹er hint about what McLaren might be capable of from Friday onwards.

“It was a good session,” Piastri reacted.

“I felt like we were pre൲tty 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 day overall.

“I was happy with my drivꦐing, and we got🍷 some good information out of the session.

“It w𓃲ill 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 place going into tomorrow.”

Thursday practice was full of intriguing results, not least Noꦦrris sitting bottom of the entire timesheet.

The pace of the two Mercedes was eye-opening, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen languishing in sixth was even more unexpec༺teౠd.

Friday’s qualifying should offer a greater clue about what the 2024 F1 cars are truly capable o✨f.