Heading into the 2024 Formula 1 season, the one overarching question was this:
Can anyone catch Max Verstappen?
Three days of pre-season testing and three practice sessions offered little answers. At moments during pre-season testing other teams laid down some impressive lap times, most notably Ferrari, but still Verstappen was lurking, his times on part with thoses of his rivals and on a harder compound. Thursday’s second practice session saw Mercedes take a big step forward, with Lewis Hamilton topping the timing sheets followed by teammate George Russell.
Had 2023’s dominant force in F1 been caught?
That day may indeed come, but it did not come today. On an
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