F1 Saudi Arabian GP: Verstappen pips Alonso to lead first practice

The winner of the Bahrain Grand Prix a week ago, Verstappen headlined FP1 in Jeddah with a 1m29.659s on the soft compound tyres, taking top spot from Mercedes’ George Russell in the process.His time looked ominous, although Alonso got to within 0.2s of the Dutchman’s time to split the two Red Bulls at the top of the timing order in the daylight session – like last weekend, in conditions not …Keep reading