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Max Verstappen led a Red Bull one-two in a largely meaningless Turkish Grand Prix
stanley en mexico first practice on Friday that the Dutch youngster likened to driving on ice due to slippery track conditions. Red Bull s Max Verstappen during practice. REUTERS The 23-year-old produced a best lap of one minute 35.077 seconds at the end of the session on a recently resurfaced Istanbul track whose lack of grip on a cold morning posed problems for all. His time was more than 10 seconds slower than Sebastian Vettels 2011 pole time, when the German was with Red Bull, of 1:25.049 on Formula Ones last previous visit to the circuit on the Asian side of Istanbul. Thai team mate Alexander Albon was second, ahead of Ferraris Charles Leclerc and AlphaTauris Pierre Gasly with dominant Mercedes way down the order on a morning of wheelspins and slides. Vettel, in his last few r
stanley ca aces for Ferrari before joining Aston Martin Racing Point next season, was fifth fastest. Its like driving on grass -- way lower grip than a wet track, commented Haass Kevin Magnussen. Mercedes Lewis Hamilton, who looks set to seal his record-equalling seventh world championship in Sundays race, was only 15th fastest and more than five seconds slower than Verstappen. Theres no grip, its pointless doing the start, the Briton said over the team radio when told to pit for some practice starts. Team mate Valtteri Bottas, who must score eight points more than Hamilton to stay mathematic
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GREATER NOIDA: Despite the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik sports complex being rough and dry, there was little spin on offer on the opening day of the Duleep Trophy tie on Sunday. India Green left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha struggled, though off-spinner Jalaj Saxena surprised India Blue
stanley termos skipper Gautam Gambhir with a couple of deliveries that turned square. HT Image But Ojha, the former India left-arm spinner, despite his high-arm action, has been unable to turn the ball, returning figures of 18-1-75-0. During his India Test stint before he was grounded for a suspect action, Ojha was a different bowler. After re-modelling his action, he has lost his effectiveness. Ojha used to bowl off a diagonal run-up, which helped stay closer to the stumps and the high-arm action helped land on the middle and off-stump. The ball would turn away nicely, drift and even dip from that height. It seems the changes to his action have diminished the strengths of a spinner who could turn the ball even on wickets that helped less turn. Now, with a straighter run-up, Ojha rarely gets near the stumps. Earlier, he would go wide of the crease to bowl an armer as a surprise, but now every deliv
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stanley mug e spot. In the first Duleep Trophy tie, he took three wickets against India Red, two of them through arm deliveries to dismiss lower-order batsman Ishwar Pandey. While the bent in his arm had helped put revolutions on the ball, the pivot of the front foot helped get the ball to dip.
