Ricciardo Tops 1st Practice

Daniel Ricciardo topped the times of todays 1st Practice in Bahrain on the Soft tyres. Only Ricciardo, his RB team mate Tsunoda and the 2 Mclaren cars ran the Soft tyres with the fastest Medium tyre runner being Fernando Alonso in 5th with this Aston Martin. 
Max Verstappen ended the session in 6th and complained multiple times about the gear shifts of his Redbull. His team mate Sergio Perez finished in 12th behind the Ferrari of Sainz while his team mate Leclerc finished in 8th behind the Mercedes of George Russell and Bottas got his Stake Sauber into the top 10 behind Hamilton in 9th.

It was a session you could have been mistaken for testing with Zhou running aero rakes before his brakes and the rear of the car prevented him doing any meaningful running. The Williams boys had a good consistent session that saw Sargeant keep his nose clean and focused on having a much less eventful 2024 than he did 2023. The Alpines struggled and finished 17 & 18th only faster than the 2 HAAS cars whole still seem to be bringing up the back of the grid. ​

Practice 1 Result 

1 RIC (s)       2 NOR (s)
3 PIA(s)        4 TSU (s)
5 ALO (m)     6 VER (m)
7 RUS (m)     8 LEC (m)
9 HAM (m)    10 BOT (s)
11 SAI (m)     12 PER (m)
13 ALB (m)    14 STR (m)
15 ZHO (s)    16 SAR (m)
17 OCO (m)   18 GAS (m)
19 MAG (m)    20 HUL (m)

Joanna Blackmore 
Writer  @f1journal.co.uk