News Details

Hamilton leads in season's first practice

World champion Lewis Hamilton made an ominous start to the season as he led a Mercedes one-two in opening practice for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix on Friday. Hamilton clocked a best time of one minute 24.026 seconds among his 27 laps to be a half-second quicker than teammate Valtteri Bottas (1:24.577) in Melbourne. The 33-year-old Briton is gunning for his fifth world title this year, an achievement which would match the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio and leave him just two adrift of Michael Schumacher's all-time record. Dutchman Max Verstappen was third quickest in his Red Bull with 1:24.771, some 0.745sec behind Hamilton, while his Australian teammate Daniel Ricciardo was sixth....
Full Story »
7y ago from SuperSport.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Merecedes dominates opening AGP practice 

Lewis Hamilton Lewis Hamilton led a Mercedes one-two in the opening...
7y ago from SpeedCafe.com

F1 Australian GP - Friday Practice LIVE!

The opening official Formula 1 practice sessions of the season kick off...
7y ago from Crash.net

Melbourne FP1: Hamilton and Mercedes set the early pace

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton started the defence of his Formula 1 world...
7y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Follow Australian Grand Prix Practice 1 Live

now viewing Follow Australian Grand Prix Practice 1 Live Mar 22, 2018...
7y ago from F1Hub.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Aleix Espargaro: Representing Honda MotoGP at Jerez a...

Aleix Espargaro says making his wildcard debut for Honda MotoGP at this...

Details emerge on Marc Marquez rejecting Honda's...

The details of Honda’s proposed colossal contract extension offer to...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Popular On TotalWRC.com

M-Sport chief Malcolm Wilson nominated as FIA deputy...

Malcolm Wilson, OBE, and founder of title-winning WRC outfit M-Sport, has...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Report: Arsenal striker target would prefer to join...

Arsenal will look to sign a new top-level striker this summer, with new...
58m ago from CaughtOffside.com

Paul Merson predicts Liverpool vs Tottenham and other...

Gameweek 34 of the Premier League is already underway, with Manchester...
2h ago from SportsKeeda.com

'I could be wrong, but I’m wrong quite rarely' -...

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) head coach Luis Enrique has hailed midfielder...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Serhou Guirassy: Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal among...

Man United and Chelsea are reportedly among only seven clubs who are able...
2h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.