It's almost time for the first bit of F1 track action at Jeddah. Follow first SaudiArabianGP practice as it happens:
Verstappen, despite complaining of understeer at Turn 22, pops in a 1m30.062s to go almost half a second quicker than Alonso. It looks like that stomach bug hasn't held him back too much!Gasly said he thinks Alpine could have mixed it up with the Mercedes if it had a clean weekend in Bahrain, so they will be ones to watch after underperforming in the opener.
Not such a smooth start for Perez though, who doesn't get enough steering lock on coming out of his garage and has to stop to avoid clipping the pitwall. No harm done, as he gets going with a fuss.All the rookies are out early; de Vries has never driven here while Sargeant and Piastri have during their F2 days. In fact, Piastri has happy memories here given he won one sprint race and the feature race in the support category here.
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