![]() We gave him a lap time to drive to, to take the risk out. Redemption for last year and the frustration he had with his tyre blowout. The way that the two of them are working is fantastic. Whereas Max’s car had better deg in the race. Maybe we emphasised too much qualifying on his side of the garage. " had a great start but started to get into rear tyre graining. "The problem was that, when Charles went out of the race, you are thinking ‘what could go wrong?’ With the pace advantage we had over Mercedes, it was just a case of managing the race and bringing them home. They did what we asked them to this morning - ‘if you find yourselves racing, give each other space’. They have been very fair with each other. ![]() "Our guys had done their racing by then, and Max had less degradation to his car than Checo did. ![]() ![]() Toro Rosso's Brendon Hartley, 11th quickest, took to the escape road twice in Turn Eight, once at the beginning of the session and once close to the end, both times without damaging the car.Christian Horner tells Sky about Red Bull team orders Haas driver Romain Grosjean had consecutive incidents at Turn 15 and Turn One, running wide without damage. Other than Verstappen, there were no other crashes, but a series of drivers struggled on the low-grip surface.īoth Hamilton and Alonso ran wide at Turn Two and Renault drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Carlos Sainz locked up, damaged their front tyres and had to end their session early, ending up 12th and 20th. The once-dominant team have had a poor start to the season but Russian Sergey Sirotkin was eighth quickest and team-mate Lance Stroll 11th, suggesting they may be beginning to get a handle on their problems. McLaren's Fernando Alonso was seventh quickest, 2.2secs off the pace and 26km/h slower on the straight than Ricciardo, who uses the same Renault engine.īehind the Spaniard, there was encouraging news for Williams. Baku is the fastest street circuit on the F1 calendar In China, in a great position to win after a decision by Red Bull to change tyres during a safety-car period, he first let Ricciardo into a winning position by running wide in an over-ambitious passing attempt on Hamilton and then crashed into Vettel a few laps later.Ĭrashing early in his first on-track session at the next race will only increase the pressure on the 20-year-old, who ended the first 90 minutes of running in sixth place, behind the impressive Force India of Esteban Ocon. In Bahrain, he crashed in qualifying, then collided with Hamilton early in the race and was forced into retirement. In the opening race in Australia, he over-drove chasing the fast-starting Haas of Kevin Magnussen, ran wide, damaged his car and then spun, finishing sixth. Verstappen arrived in Baku talking of learning from his mistakes and planning to drive "faster but maybe a little more in control".īut his words came back to haunt him when he lost control on entry to Turn Three, corrected, only for the car to spin back the other way and end up in the barriers facing the wrong way.
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