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Verstappen Leads Red Bull One-Two in First Saudi Practice

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands steers his car during the first free practice ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix at the Jeddah corniche circuit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP)
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands steers his car during the first free practice ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix at the Jeddah corniche circuit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP)
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Verstappen Leads Red Bull One-Two in First Saudi Practice

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands steers his car during the first free practice ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix at the Jeddah corniche circuit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP)
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands steers his car during the first free practice ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix at the Jeddah corniche circuit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP)

Formula One champion Max Verstappen shrugged off a stomach upset and picked up where he left off on Friday, with the Dutch driver leading Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez one-two in first practice for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso, third in the March 5 opener in Bahrain behind Verstappen and Perez, was again the best of the rest.

Last year's winner Verstappen, who delayed his arrival in the Kingdom as he recovered from the bug, got straight down to work with a fastest lap of one minute 29.617 seconds.

Perez was 0.483 slower with double world champion Alonso 0.698 off Verstappen's pace and Canadian teammate Lance Stroll, still recovering from breaking both wrists and a big toe in a pre-season cycling accident, fourth.

The Mercedes pair of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton were fifth and sixth and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz was the seventh quickest.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, who will have a 10-place penalty on the grid for Sunday's race after a change of electronic control unit, was 11th.

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Quartararo Breaks Lap Record on Home Soil to Take French GP Pole

MotoGP - French Grand Prix - Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans, France - May 10, 2025 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP's Fabio Quartararo celebrates after qualifying in pole position. (Reuters)
MotoGP - French Grand Prix - Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans, France - May 10, 2025 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP's Fabio Quartararo celebrates after qualifying in pole position. (Reuters)
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Quartararo Breaks Lap Record on Home Soil to Take French GP Pole

MotoGP - French Grand Prix - Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans, France - May 10, 2025 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP's Fabio Quartararo celebrates after qualifying in pole position. (Reuters)
MotoGP - French Grand Prix - Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans, France - May 10, 2025 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP's Fabio Quartararo celebrates after qualifying in pole position. (Reuters)

Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo smashed the lap record in front of a sellout crowd at Le Mans on Saturday as the Frenchman snatched pole position from Ducati's Marc Marquez for the French Grand Prix.
Having broken the lap record at the circuit in Friday's practice, Marquez went even faster early in the second qualifying session to set the tone for Q2.
Quartararo, however, managed to complete one more lap to clock one minute 29.324 seconds as the home crowd erupted and sang "La Marseillaise", the country's national anthem, even as the Frenchman urged them to calm down.
"It was amazing to get this pole position, thanks to all the fans supporting us. It's a really important pole position but we need to get the points later and on Sunday," Quartararo said.
It also marked the first time since his championship-winning season in 2021 that he had clinched back-to-back pole positions having gone fastest at the Spanish Grand Prix.
"Fabio rode in an incredible way, he deserves this pole position in front of his fans. He was doing a superb job in Jerez (at the Spanish Grand Prix) too," Marquez said.
"But I'm happy with my pace and starting on the front row was my main target."
World championship leader Alex Marquez of Gresini Racing was third fastest and his team mate Fermin Aldeguer will start on the second row alongside KTM Tech3's Maverick Vinales and Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia.