{"id":37465,"date":"2025-08-01T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37465\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:47:10","slug":"norris-beats-piastri-in-fp1-to-top-mclaren-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37465\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris beats Piastri in FP1 to top McLaren 1-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lando Norris<\/a> drew first blood at the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, headlining Formula 1’s opening free practice session by a scant 0.019s over championship leader Oscar Piastri<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Norris set a 1m16.052s with his first lap on the soft tyres, having already set a somewhat competitive time on the medium-compound Pirellis amid the opening half of the session.<\/p>\n

Those early runs were logged on the hard and medium tyres, with rapid improvement emerging during the first 20 minutes of FP1.<\/p>\n

Among those, Norris set a 1m16.837s, having found continual progress in those opening laps and becoming the first driver in the session to dip below the 1m17s bracket.<\/p>\n

Charles Leclerc<\/a> then kicked off the soft-tyre runs and posted a 1m16.791s to surpass Norris’ lap, although the McLaren<\/a> driver’s time on the C4s remained too tough for Lewis Hamilton<\/a> and Max Verstappen<\/a> to break down on their first soft times.<\/p>\n

Norris then shattered that, finding almost half a second over Leclerc in the middle sector to set a 1m16.052s. Piastri followed his team-mate’s time and set a better first sector, but lost time to Norris over the rest of the lap and crossed the line 0.142s behind.<\/p>\n

\"Oscar <\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri, McLaren<\/p>\n

Photo by: Sam Bloxham \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The championship leader then took another crack at Norris’ benchmark, finding more pace in the middle sector to get within 0.019s of the Briton on the same set of tyres.<\/p>\n

Leclerc improved to get within 0.217s, but a four-tenth gulf followed him and fourth-placed Isack Hadjar<\/a> as the Frenchman demonstrated strong early pace in his Racing Bulls machinery. Hadjar had split the Ferraris, as Hamilton ended the session fifth.<\/p>\n

Oliver Bearman<\/a> was sixth in the timing order, a mere 0.002s clear of Andrea Kimi Antonelli<\/a> – who went faster than George Russell<\/a> by half a tenth. Verstappen and Lance Stroll<\/a> completed the top 10.<\/p>\n

Fernando Alonso<\/a> missed the session due to a back injury, so Aston Martin reserve Felipe Drugovich stood in for the double F1 champion – he placed 16th, ahead of Yuki Tsunoda<\/a>, who complained of sliding throughout the lap, and Franco Colapinto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sauber<\/a> stand-in Paul Aron, driving in place of Nico Hulkenberg<\/a> for FP1, came to a halt at Turn 13 after facing a “systems critical alarm” on his steering wheel. The race director chose to throw a virtual safety car to ensure the Estonian’s car could be collected from the run-off.<\/p>\n

The Saubers propped up the bottom of the times, as Gabriel Bortoleto’s running appeared to be curtailed beyond the soft-tyre runs.<\/p>\n

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F1 Hungarian GP results – FP1<\/p>\n

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