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Red Bull edges closer to Mercedes as rain threat clouds order

One week after the 2020 season started at the Red Bull Ring, the cars are running there again thanks to Formula 1's pandemic-shifted calendar. But this time around practice signs are looking better for the home team, with rain chaos also predicted

Alex Kalinauckas Jul 10, 2020, 3:26 PM

Formula 1's first repeat grand prix provides the chance to directly compare the pecking order based on the practice times for the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix with this weekend's inaugural Styrian GP. But the weather gods have refused to be helpful.

Although there was no wet running in today's fourth and fifth F1 practice sessions of 2020, as there was briefly a week ago, the potential for rain to washout Saturday's activity had a knock-on effect on today's running.

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Author Alex Kalinauckas

Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.