Hi
In this book, you will find a rewind of the 2023 F1 season.
The chapters are quite long, most of the time over 5000 words.
Hope you enjoy it. :)
It's my first book, so I would enjoy feed back.
So please excuse some mistakes. As well because my fi...
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Practice 1
Championship leader Max Verstappen set the fastest time of FP1 in Saudi Arabia ahead of his Red Bull teammate, Sergio Perez, while Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso was third.
Despite the heat - heat that will dissipate under the lights for FP2, qualifying and the race - Red Bull and Aston Martin began the session with respective drivers Perez and Alonso donning soft tyres.
The pair traded places at the top of the leaderboard for much of the first 30 minutes of FP1 before Verstappen equipped softs and eventually set the fastest time of 1m 29.617s.
Perez was 0.438s behind his teammate in second place. The Mexican driver has a new control electronics, energy store and gearbox, but no penalty, this weekend. Alonso was another two tenths away in P3 for Aston Martin, with his teammate, Lance Stroll, fourth and just under a second off the pace.
Mercedes were next on the board with George Russell fifth and Lewis Hamilton sixth, both just over 1.1s off the pace. Friday marks 10 years since Hamilton made his Mercedes debut; here he remarked he was "struggling for grip" as he rounded the track on softs.
Carlos Sainz, who has a new internal combustion engine for the race, but no penalty, finished seventh ahead of Alpine's Pierre Gasly. Charles Leclerc finished 11th in the other Ferrari.
Leclerc, who retired from the season opener, has a 10-place grid penalty in Saudi Arabia, having exceeded. He will also have a new ICE and MGU-H for the Grand Prix.
In ninth was Alex Albon for Williams, while Yuki Tsunoda rounded out the top 10 for Alpha Tauri.
Esteban Ocon took P12 for Alpine ahead of Nyck de Vries in P13, while Oscar Piastri finished 14th for McLaren.
Haas were 15th and 16th with Nico Hulkenberg ahead of Kevin Magnussen, while Logan Sargeant was 17th for Williams.
Then sat Alfa Romeo with Valtteri Bottas 18th - 10 years after making his F1 Grand Prix debut - and Zhou Guanyu 19th.
Lando Norris was 20th on the board for McLaren. This weekend, Norris has a new exhaust, MGU-H, MGU-K turbocharger and internal combustion engine but no penalties as he has not exceeded any allocations.
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