Even more importantly the Mercedes never looked comfortable after FP1 either, and it was something Martin Brundle emphasised on the live broadcast all weekend. It's always difficult to take anything from practice sessions as the teams are normally holding something back, but Mercedes failed to break the 1:35 mark after FP1 whilst Red Bull made huge progress and crucially Verstappen improved by almost a second from first to last session, whilst Mercedes went backwards. Perez was on song for most of the weekend and topped FP3 as well as Mercedes slipped to fifth and sixth. However, Perez gave the Bulls some hope in FP2 by topping the standings but Max was still in eighth. It looked like it was damage limitation for Red Bull. In fact Valtteri Bottas’ time of a 1:34.874 was almost a second faster than Verstappen and even Hamilton was over half a second clear.
And after FP1 it looked like it would be even more emphatic.
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