F1 – Bottas heads opening practice session for Belgian Colossal Prix

Valtteri Bottas went quickest in the gap System 1 practice session for the Belgian Colossal Prix, narrowly beating Mercedes personnel-mate Lewis Hamilton and Crimson Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen.

Bottas disaster his simplest time of 1: 44.493s on soft tyres to eclipse championship chief Hamilton by 0.069 seconds. Verstappen got terminate to the Mercedes pair on the longest circuit on the calendar and the Dutchman ended the session with a simplest time of 1: 44.574, correct 0.081 off Hamilton’s P1 time. 

Fourth and fifth locations in the session went to Racing Level’s Sergio Pérez and Lance Stroll who persevered the personnel’s mature graceful form at Spa that stretches assist to its outdated incarnation as Force India. Pérez finished correct 5 hundredths of a 2d slack Verstappen. Stroll, in the meantime, ended the session two tenths of a 2d slack his personnel-mate. 

The two Racing Points own been sandwiched by the Crimson Bulls, with Verstappen ahead and Alexander Albon in sixth space. The Thai driver disaster a simplest time of 1: 45.049, correct below half a 2d off his Dutch personnel-mate. 

At the assist of the cease six Renault’s Esteban Ocon became once seventh before the McLaren’s Carlose Sainz, with Daniel Ricciardo in the 2d Renault in ninth space before the 2d McLaren of Lando Norris. 

AlphaTauri’s Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly own been 11^th and 12^th respectively, though Gasly became once left fuming over the radio all the plan thru the session after coming all over a unhurried Norris not off beam. Both AlphaTauris disaster their quickest occasions on the medium tyre. 

It became once a muted session for Ferrari, nonetheless, with Charles Leclerc finishing in 14^th space, 1.266s off the disappear, whereas personnel-mate Sebastian Vettel became once 15^th and a extra four tenths of a 2d slack.