Formula 1 championship leader Max Verstappen headed the opening free practice session of the Italian Grand Prix weekend by just 0.046s over Ferrari's Carlos Sainz.
Verstappen closed out the opening 20 minutes of the hour-long FP1 session with a 1m22.657s, bettering his previous effort of a 1m23.027s on the hard compound of tyres.had got to within three tenths to slot into the runner-up spot in the session, but was beaten by Sainz's 1m22.703s just after the opening half-hour had elapsed.
The alternative tyre allocation for the Monza weekend, following on from the first trial in Hungary, restricted drivers to the number of tyres they could burn through during the session as the customary 13 sets per car was reduced to 11. This prompted a variety of approaches from each team, as some elected to save tyres in the opening part of the session to potentially keep an extra set free in qualifying.
Verstappen and Perez elected to stick with a set of hard tyres for the opening part of the session, and traded times at the top with the Ferraris,
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