Lewis Hamilton put Ferrari on top in the sole Formula 1 practice session ahead of sprint qualifying at the British Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The driver with the most grand prix wins at Silverstone – nine – Hamilton was fastest of all on the hard-tyre runs that dominated the first 40 minutes of the session, then displaced championship leader Kimi Antonelli once performance runs were conducted.<\/p>\n
Hamilton was 0.051s shy of Mercedes driver Antonelli through the first two sectors, but appeared to have a step on the competition in the final sector – and duly ended up 0.213 seconds clear on a 1m29.260s.<\/p>\n
Antonelli was the only driver within half a second of the pacesetting time; Charles Leclerc did back Hamilton up by putting the other Ferrari third in the times, but he was 0.599s behind his team-mate, with George Russell almost seven tenths down as Mercedes and Ferrari locked out the top four positions.<\/p>\n
An early Oscar Piastri spin at the second part of Becketts – the McLaren driver touched the apex kerb through the fast right-hander – was one of only two moments of real note in FP1, the other being a bit of needle between Liam Lawson and Nico Hulkenberg at Village as Racing Bulls driver Lawson tried to start a push lap.<\/p>\n
Piastri was fifth but 0.887s down, with Max Verstappen almost a tenth further back in a Red Bull that had looked far more competitive a prospect on hard tyres at the start of the session. Lando Norris and Isack Hadjar were seventh and eighth.<\/p>\n
Hulkenberg ended the session with ‘best of the rest’ honours behind the top-four teams, lapping 1.483s slower than Hamilton as the fastest driver on the medium-compound tyre – which will be used in the first and second parts of sprint qualifying on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Lawson completed the top 10 behind the Audi driver, with Franco Colapinto also using mediums in 11th.<\/p>\n
FP1 result<\/p>\n
1 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) 1m29.260s
2 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) +0.213s
3 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) +0.599s
4 George Russell (Mercedes) +0.678s
5 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) +0.887s
6 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) +0.980s
7 Lando Norris (McLaren) +1.028s
8 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) +1.078s
9 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi) +1.483s
10 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) +1.590s
11 Franco Colapinto (Alpine) +1.706s
12 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) +1.775s
13 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) +2.079s
14 Ollie Bearman (Haas) +2.113s
15 Carlos Sainz (Williams) +2.424s
16 Esteban Ocon (Haas) +2.424s
17 Alex Albon (Williams) +2.437s
18 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) +2.890s
19 Sergio Perez (Cadillac) +2.981s
20 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) +3.697s
21 Pierre Gasly (Alpine) +3.759s
22 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) +3.870s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton put Ferrari on top in the sole Formula 1 practice session ahead of sprint qualifying at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-776658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776658","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=776658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}