Formula One: Lewis Hamilton has notched up the fastest Practice time in Barcelona, with Max Verstappen coming in 5th.
This race has been billed as a litmus test for the competitiveness of the field up front after the last four rounds shook up the form guide.
The signs that Red Bull Racing were concerned it wouldn’t be able to bounce back so easily in Spain were made clear ahead of the race with the revelation that Max Verstappen — who famously decries the heavy workload of the record 24-race season — undertook private testing in his 2022 car in Imola. Similar to Red Bull Racing, it was unclear whether the result had been track specific, but so far the car appears compliant around Barcelona, even if no-one is expecting its place at the top of the time sheet to hold through to qualifying.
“It’s not qualifying, and we’ve got a night now to work on it and figure it out, but from competitiveness, we were missing a bit today. The 19-year-old from Maitland fended off Prema’s Arvid Lindblad by just 0.036 seconds to seal the deal, with ART teammate Nikola Tsolov only 0.003 seconds further back in third.
“I think it was always there, it was just a matter of extraction,” he said of impressive uptick in form following challenging rounds in Melbourne and Imola, though he said he was more confident of his performance in the weekend’s dual races.“I love being wheel to wheel with someone else. Quali has never been a strong point. Up until now I had four pole positions in my entire career, but as far as race wins and podiums, I have more than I can count.
Briatore ran the Enstone team in its championship-winning Benneton and Renault eras in the 1990s and 2000s but forced to resign in 2009 when he was implicated in the infamous ‘crashgate’ scandal of the previous season, when he directed Nelson Piquet Jr to deliberately crash his car to help teammate Fernando Alonso win the race.
His focus will be “on top level areas of the team, including scouting top talents and providing insights on the driver market, challenging the existing project by assessing the current structure and advising on some strategic matters within the sport.
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