Charles Leclerc recorded his second practice because Lewis Hamilton could not match his teammate’s face in Ferrari debut in the Australian Grand Prix.
After moving the blockbuster in Mercedes, seven world champions participated in Ferrari’s first race weekend session, and Melbourne captivated all the eyes of Hamilton on Friday, and 40 -year -old BRIT was fifth.
Hamilton was the first place in the impressive leading time of 1: 16.439, which was enough to surpass Mclaren’s OSCAR Piastri and Lando Norris to the top 10.
Prior to the opening round of the season, the agreement of the ranch was that the producer’s champion, Mclaren, would start campaigns with the fastest car in the grid, but Lecler’s exhibition suggested that Ferrari can be challenged at least in Albert Park on Saturday.
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Lewis Hamilton is on the track for Ferrari debut at the Australian Grand Prix.
Ferrari seemed to be fierce competition during the longer running at the latter stage of the session with a match against McLaren in a rap.
In fact, it is not a representative time, of course, not representative. The given team can run a car with a different setting and fuel load than the qualified one, which can explain the amazing layout of the time sheet.
Yuki tsunoda ranked fourth than Lewis Hamilton, and his new teammate was sixth place to complete a strong performance.
They ended up ahead of the two drivers of the senior team Red Bull with Max VestAppen Seventh. He started the quest to get the fifth consecutive driver title and only ranked 17th in the new teammate Liam Lawson.
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Bernie Collins, a strategic analyst and former Aston Martin strategy, destroys the best opportunity to win the opening race of Australian Grand Prix, the F1 calendar.
VERSTAPPEN was one of the drivers who had difficulty in handling cars as they tried to find a balanced setting with 2025 challengers after a three -day test in Bahrain last month.
George Russell left the track from Mercedes as if he did early in his first practice to win 10th place. His new Mercedes teammate, Kimi Antonelli, was 16th.
Mercedes showed a decent speed in the middle and hard tire compounds, but could not find a significant improvement that was expected to switch to a faster soft compound.
British rookie Oliver Bearman With a big conflict in the first practice.
SKY SPORTS F1’s Live Australian GP Schedule
Saturday, March 15
- 12:10 am: F3 sprint*
- 1:10 am: Australian GP practice 3 (session starts at 1:30 am)*
- 3:10 am: F2 sprint*
- 4:15 am: Australian GP Eligible Build Up*
- 5 am: Australian GP qualification*
- 7 am: TED’s qualification notebook*
- 7:30 am: Australian GP qualifier play* (Sky Showcase 9:00 am)
- 9:55 pm: F3 function race*
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Bernie Collins, a strategic analyst and former Aston Martin strategy, destroys the best opportunity to win the opening race of Australian Grand Prix, the F1 calendar.
Sunday, March 16
- 12.25AM: F2 function race*
- 2:30 am: Australian GP Build Up: Grand Prix Sunday*
- 4 am: Australian Grand Prix*
- 6 am: Australian GP reaction: Check pattern flag*
- 7 am: Ted’s laptop*
- 7:55 am: Australian GP Race Replay
- 10 am: Australian GP Highlights (SKY SHOWCASE)
- 7:00 pm: Villeneuve piredi-unprecedented tragedy of racing
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