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In a third-round French Open match that was halted by loud fireworks outside Paris St-Germain’s stadium, Cameron Norrie kept his focus on defeating British rival Jacob Fearnley.

Fearnley, 23, took Norrie’s place as the country’s top two earlier this year, but he resurrected himself in a 6-3, 7-6, 6-2 victory.

PSG fans savagely awaited their team’s Champions League final against Inter Milan in Munich while the match was largely over the course of the match.

Norrie, who is ranked 81st in the world, described how managing the fireworks next door was the “toughest part” for both of us.

After a few challenging seasons, Norrie, who was playing at his best, used his experience to overthrow his fellow Scot.

Fearnley, the French Open debutant, appeared to have picked up a broken leg in the second set.

As Norrie made its first appearance in the final 16 of the clay-court Grand Slam, Fearnley, who is ranked 55th, produced a double fault on match point.

Novak Djokovic, who played later on Saturday, might get to meet with the reward.

After a three-hour contest played in bizarre circumstances, Norrie and Fearnley, who had never previously played at ATP level, embraced warmly at the net.

Nearly 50 000 supporters poured into Roland Garros’ Parc des Princes to watch the game on large screens.

When Norrie had a 4-1 lead in the second-set tie-break, he had to abort his serve, but he refocused and took the lead.

In addition to the fireworks, the audience could also hear police sirens and car horns that were tooting during the opening two sets.

As the football match’s kick-off time approached, the noise faded in the third set, and Norrie won.

It was very difficult to get there, said Norrie, and I feel great about it.

Lewis Hamilton calls the introduction of a new front wing flexibility regulation at the Spanish Grand Prix “a waste of money.”

To limit how many teams could use their movement on the track to gain aerodynamic advantage, the governing body, the FIA, imposed a stricter load test on the front wings.

However, Hamilton said, “We just wasted everyone’s money.” Nothing has actually changed.

Everyone had to make new wings and spend more money to make these because everyone’s wings still bend. It’s only half the bending. Simply put, it is illogical.

The Ferrari driver continued, “I didn’t anticipate anything of the change before coming to Spain.”

According to Hamilton, “I drove it on the simulator, and it’s pretty much the same.” A little more oversteer in the high speed, I guess. You know, “Could have given it everything to charity”?

Along with funding for research and development, the new F1 front wing costs about $100,000.

Because it anticipated that the majority of teams would introduce new front wings in Spain anyway as part of their regular development plans, the FIA delayed the implementation until this race, the ninth of the season.

Red Bull’s pressure on the FIA over McLaren’s use of flexi-wings, which were being exploited by all the top teams and the majority of the others, is widely believed to have led to the move in F1.

Red Bull have been contacting the FIA in recent months regarding a number of legal-related aspects of the McLaren car, but nothing has been discovered regarding the design or the procedure.

The impact, according to McLaren team principal Andrea Stella, was “relatively negligible” because, according to Stella, “we always assumed that because of the small numbers that were associated with this change of aero-elastic effect, both in terms of downforce and downforce variation with speed, they would have been fairly minor.”

If we hadn’t told Lando that this wing was a different wing when we tested it in Imola [two races ago], he wouldn’t have noticed it, and when we simulated it, it was almost zero.

We therefore did not anticipate a change in the pecking order in light of the technical directive that was made available for this race.

Because the technical directive has been around for a long time, and we could find effectiveness in terms of how you planned to introduce this modification, we did not have time to consider whether or not to waste the money.

Teams use flexible front wings because they increase cornering and improve cornering without sacrificing straight-line speed. They also increase cornering and improve cornering.

The front wing flaps should bend downwards as the load is reduced, reducing drag, before rising back up to increase corner downforce.

Teams have also discovered that flexi-wings improve their balance at various cornering speeds under the most recent generation of cars.

Low-speed understeer and oversteer (no enough front grip) are common in high-speed corners, which also generate the majority of their downforce from shared underbodies known as venturis.

Hamilton, who starts fifth in Barcelona, stated that his goal was to “try and get to the podium.” I haven’t appeared on a podium in a while.

His most recent podium appearance was in Las Vegas in November, when he was a Mercedes driver.

He made reference to George Russell’s former teammate’s reigning fourth-place finish in Spain last year.

“Long way to turn one,” “” George started with “Hamilton said” last year, which we witnessed. I’ll make every effort possible to get things off to a good start. Then it’s just about managing the tyres here, which is challenging, and then, after that, it’s all about managing the tires.

Piastri warned against “trying to get a good start” because he was worried about the “long run to turn one.”

He continued, “It will still be a fascinating race, and it’s not as straightforward as taking the lead at the beginning and moving on from there.” Managing the tyres and getting your stops right will be difficult. There will be a lot going on.

Verstappen once said, “Yes, turn one is when it’s time to shine.” Make the pictures three [cars] wide. Not, why?

It’s not bad that my long run on Friday practice was bad, but if you consider the difference today, it’ll be difficult to put up a really, really good fight. That doesn’t, however, mean we won’t try.

Lancashire defeated Nottinghamshire by 47 runs to claim two wins from two in the T20 Blast, led by Keaton Jennings, who scored 95 from just 49 balls.

After winning the toss at Old Trafford, their T20 captain, Luke Wells, who had a career-best 87 from 50 balls in the record opening stand of 177, led from the front.

Notts were bowled out for 169 in the final over after Moises Henriques made a brief chase-threatening 60 from 32.

After struggling in the County Championship Division Two, beleaguered Lancashire found some relief in their first T20 game against Worcestershire, which they then followed with a dominant performance against Notts.

In boosting his second-best T20 score, Jennings hit eight fours and six sixes, and Wells added a new highest score with seven boundaries and six maximums.

Their 177-run T20 partnership put them out of sight, making it their best ever total for any wicket for Lancashire.

Durham won the match’s opening 17 balls and took three wickets in Edgbaston to secure a comfortable victory.

Sam Hain’s only batsman for the Bears, making 45 in 28 balls, but Jimmy Neesham of New Zealand took 3-34 as the Bears were bowled out for 143.

With 40 from 23 deliveries, including five fours and sixes, Graham Clark delivered the ideal start to the chase before Robinson took the mantle and ran out 45 from 36.