Alonso gets a 1m12.577s to go quickest, going well in the first sector particularly.
On that first sector: we heard Verstappen tell Bortoleto yesterday that there was no sense in taking a low-line apex to Turn 3, as it’s too flat there. In F1’s return here, it took a few different lines before drivers settled on staying high.
In the time it took to type that, Albon goes fastest with a 1m12.457s – and Hamilton had a spin out of Turn 2 and managed to right himself before that banked Turn 3.
