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Belgian Grand Prix 2024: Max Verstappen tops first practice at Spa-Francorchamps but takes grid penalty for race
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Title leader Max Verstappen topped first practice at the Belgian Grand Prix but the Red Bull driver will drop 10 places for Sunday’s race after receiving an engine penalty.
The Dutchman has taken his fifth internal combustion engine (ICE) at Spa-Francorchamps – exceeding his allocated number of power units for the season.
His quickest time on the soft tyre was a 1:44.372, with Hungarian Grand Prix winner Oscar Piastri finishing 0.531 seconds behind in the McLaren on the same compound.
The Williams of Alex Albon was a surprise third place for Williams, 0.727secs off the pace of Verstappen, also on the soft tyre.
George Russell and Lewis Hamilton were fourth and fifth for Mercedes, with the team running further upgrades to the car for round 14. However, Russell complained during the session he had “no rear at all”, while Hamilton highlighted excessive “bouncing”.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc ended his hour in sixth place ahead of the second Red Bull of Sergio Perez, who was nearly a second away from team-mate Verstappen’s top time in seventh.
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Republic of Ireland 0-2 England: What BBC Radio 5 Live saw in Lee Carsley’s first game
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Ian Dennis
Even before we had gone live on air for 5 Live, it was noticeable how involved Lee Carsley was with the warm-up.
The interim head coach even placed the red and white cones out in the England half of the field.
He was waiting on the pitch as a solitary figure before the players came out to warm up.
Carsley was actively involved along with his assistants Ashley Cole and Joleon Lescott. It’s a significant change in approach to that of Gareth Southgate or previous managers.
I even remember Fabio Capello, when he was England head coach, watching intently from the sidelines along with his assistant Franco Baldini – but they would study and monitor the opposition.
Carsley was purely focused on his England players and looked comfortable as a tracksuit manager.
John Murray
If you were looking for a different approach from Lee Carsley, it was there right from the start. There was an initial mis-step when he turned right to the home dugout when he first walked down the tunnel, but it was a tracksuited Carsley who laid out the balls and the cones and oversaw the whole of the warm-up.
It served to underline how he wishes to be seen very much as the head coach. And if England replicate the first-half performance, he will not be interim for too much longer.
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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Finlay Graham, Emma Wiggs and Charlotte Henshaw win trio of golds for GB
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Finlay Graham, Emma Wiggs and Charlotte Henshaw won gold medals on Saturday morning at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, taking Great Britain’s tally to 45.
Graham, 24, won the men’s C1-3 road race, while Wiggs, 44, was victorious in the women’s VL2 200m Va’a Single final.
Henshaw, 37, continued GB’s Para-canoe success, winning the women’s VL3 Single final, where there was also a silver medal for Hope Gordon. David Phillipson took silver in the men’s KL2 Single final.
Daniel Powell has guaranteed himself at least a silver medal in the men’s -90kg men’s J1 judo.
In Para-equestrian, Sophie Wells won the bronze medal in the Grade V individual freestyle event.
Great Britain now have a total of 106 medals at the Paralympics, including those 45 golds. Only China, with 85 golds and 195 total medals, have more.
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US Open: Jack Draper on semi-final defeat against Jannik Sinner
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Jack Draper says being sick on court in his US Open semi-final defeat was “the worst feeling ever”, but he believes Grand Slam success is “just a matter of time”.
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