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The Monegasque, who started third in Bahrain and qualified second-fastest in Saudi Arabia, beat Red Bull to the top spot for the first time this season. It was also his third consecutive pole at the track.

The December departure of former team boss Mattia Binotto has left Ferrari without a technical director, and it has since lost head of vehicle concept David Sanchez to McLaren.

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It was a clinical performance for the Kiwi, who matched his times – to a ten thousandth of a second – in Q2 and Q3 in the knock-out session.

Berry, who competes fulltime in the Xfinity Series for JR Motorsports, most recently drove Chase Elliott’s No. 9 Chevrolet on oval tracks this season during his recovery from a fractured tibia in his left leg suffered in a snowboarding accident.

McLaughlin, the three-time Supercars champion who won the 2019 Bathurst 1000 for DJR Team Penske along with co-driver Alexandre Premat, finished top of this afternoon’s opening practice session at Barber.

Inevitably, after a warm-up lap at the start of the session, the veterans parked and let the rookies use their extra set of primary tyres to clean the track and add grip to the surface already christened with Firestone rubber thanks to the Indy NXT cars on track earlier in…

Poleman Kobayashi, who inherited the top spot after Ferrari's Antonio Giovinazzi had his best lap deleted for a track limits infringement, made the comments after Brendon Hartley crashed the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID on his first lap out of the pits at Raidillon.

Will Stevens logged the seventh fastest time in Friday evening's Hypercar session on the first appearance for a customer 963 LMDh in the WEC, 2.095s down on the polesitting #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Kamui Kobayashi.