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 McLaren driver finished 20th🌠 in the second practice session on Thursday but emerged unflustered.

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

Nor🐻ris r෴eacted: “It’s been a reasonable day. I’m happy with how Thursday went overall.

“We made some progress with the car, there are still plenty of thin𓂃gs to improve on, but we improved the balance and I gotꦚ 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 repre🦩sentative day on the timesheets, 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 issues and we got through our test programme.

“Even 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 comparison 🃏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, which meant his position in the classification was not very meaningful.

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

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

Oscar Piastri finished in P5 in the session topped both both Mercedes drivers, to give a stronger hint about what McLaren might be capable of from Frida🧔y onwards.

“It was a good session,” Piastri reacted.

“I felt like we were pretty competitive in both low and high fuel running. It’ll be꧒ interesting to see what we’re like tomorrow, but I think it was a pretty solid day overall.

“I was happy with my driving, and we got soꦑme good information out of the session.

“It will 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 practi💫ce was full of intriguing results, not least Norris sitting bottom of the entire timesheet.

The 💙pace of the𒁃 two Mercedes was eye-opening, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen languishing in sixth was even more unexpected.

Friday🐼’s qualifying should offer a greater clue about what the 2024 F1 cars are truly capable of.