Max Verstappen opened the Austrian doubleheader with the quickest time of first practice for the Styrian Grand Prix. Verstappen, winner of last weekend’s French Grand Prix, took his Red Bull Racing car to the top of the time sheet with a time of 1m05.910s. Pierre Gasly made the session a Red Bull-back 1-2, albeit with the sister AlphaTauri car, 0.256s further back. Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas followed, the pair closely matched at around 0.45s off the leading Dutchman’s pace. There was more pace in the Black Arrows than the stopwatch suggested, however. Bottas was half a tenth quicker than Verstappen in each of the first two sectors before running wide and Turn...
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