Maybe it was just me, but I thought coming into our second-straight race at the Red Bull Ring, we might get a more concrete understanding of just where every team stood than we got in last Sunday’s retirement-fest. Yet with a Red Bull out front and two Racing Points in the top four, Formula 1’s pecking order seems as murky as ever after another Friday in Austria. Of course, betting against Mercedes at this point would be more foolish than trusting your finances to Vijay Mallya, but seeing Max Verstappen top of the timesheets in a quasi-qualifying session at least raises an eyebrow. If there was any practice session where you would want to get out there and simply bang the quick laps...
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