{"id":731937,"date":"2026-06-12T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731937\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:47:10","slug":"live-f1-barcelona-gp-commentary-and-updates-russell-leads-fp1-with-seven-rookies-in-action-live-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731937\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: F1 Barcelona GP commentary and updates &#8211; Russell leads FP1 with seven rookies in action | Live text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the chequered flag flies. That was quite an uneventful session, especially for Luke Browning.<\/p>\n<p>So Russell was fastest with that 1m16.363s he set earlier on, 0.203s quicker than Piastri in P2. Leclerc 0.520s off Russell in third.<\/p>\n<p>Good work by Fornaroli and Aron. Both of them fairly experienced in terms of testing, given Aron was on Alpine&#8217;s young driver programme until recently and Fornaroli has had a few Testing of Previous Cars outings.<\/p>\n<p>Beganovic did a 12-lap long run on softs at the end with a best of 1m17.78s.<\/p>\n<p>The other rookies had less in the way of time for quali sims, so comparing laptimes is rather pointless.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 And the chequered flag flies. That was quite an uneventful session, especially for Luke Browning. So Russell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-731937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}