- Live updates from the first race of the F1 season
- Giles Richards: Hamilton’s genius faces fresh test
- Qualifying: Verstappen takes pole to lay down early marker
Fernando Alonso makes his F1 return today after two years away. “I have to get better myself first of all because even today it was like the very first time on these gritty tyres and gritty qualifying session,” he said yesterday. “It’s going to be the first time doing a formation lap, the traffic lights, the first corner action. It seems like simple things for a racing driver but after two years it’s going to feel again like new for me.”
And here’s our report from yesterday’s qualifying, when Max Verstappen hinted at a very exciting season indeed:
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