F1 testing 2024 LIVE: Pre-season lap times as Verstappen ends Day 1 in Bahrain on top – MyCyberBase

That’s it for day one of pre-season testing for the 2024 Formula 1 season. Max Verstappen was the main threat on track as predicted and finished top of the leaderboard but Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo impressed for McLaren and RB respectively.

Williams had a tough day with a couple of major faults in their cars but they’ll work on them overnight and see what tomorrow brings.

The second day of testing begins at 7am GMT and Lewis Hamilton will be back on track after sitting out today’s two sessions.

Lando Norris will pay tribute to former McLaren sporting director Gil de Ferran at F1 testing on Wednesday with a signature helmet.

French-Brazilian ex-driver De Ferran, who won the Indy 500 in 2003, passed away in December at the age of 56 after suffering a heart attack.

Norris, who has driven for McLaren since his F1 debut in 2019, worked alongside De Ferran for two years and was keen to pay his respects on the first day of the 2024 season.

The times for testing – at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir – are as follows:

7am-11am – Morning session

12pm-4pm – Afternoon session

7am-11am – Morning session

12pm-4pm – Afternoon session

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has called for Red Bull’s investigation into Christian Horner to be transparent – and said the controversy is “an issue for all of Formula One”.

Horner is under investigation by the racing team’s parent company Red Bull GmbH following a claim of “inappropriate behaviour” by a female colleague.

The 50-year-old emphatically denies the accusation and remains in his role as Red Bull team principal.

11. Logan Sargeant (Williams) + 2.538

12. George Russell (Mercedes) + 2.765

13. Yuki Tsunoda (RB) + 2.792

14. Valtteri Bottas (Sauber) + 3.087

15. Alex Albon (Williams) + 3.243

16. Esteban Ocon (Alpine) + 3.333

17. Kevin Magnussen (Haas) + 4.348

18. Nico Hulkenberg (Haas) + 4.562

1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) – 1:31.344

2. Lando Norris (McLaren) + 1.140

3. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) + 1.240

4. Daniel Ricciardo (RB) +1.225

5. Pierre Gasly (Alpine) + 1.461

6. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) + 1.663

7. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) + 1.903

8. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) + 2.041

9. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) + 2.314

10. Zhou Guanyu (Sauber) + 2.527

Time runs out for today’s testing session. Max Verstappen topped the leaderboard by over a second after driving 142 laps.

George Russell managed 120 laps throughout the day in his Mercedes with most of the other drivers somewhere in the range of 60-80 laps.

McLaren, Red Bull, and RB will be the happiest teams of the day, Williams and Haas among those who struggled.

Wow. Some debris flies off Lance Stroll’s Aston Martin and immediately behind him, Daniel Ricciardo manages to swerve and avoid it.

No so for Nico Hulkenberg who bombs right over it.

Into the final quarter of an hour of today’s testing session. Lando Norris is about to head back out onto track on fresh set of tyres. It seems McLaren are sending him out with a set of C4s.

Williams have called it a day as the team continues to explore a suspected driveshaft issue. The new car completed just 61 laps in total across Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant today.

It’s not a disastrous day but can’t be called successful either.