Lando Norris headed team-mate Oscar Piastri to a McLaren one-two in first practice at the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Norris was 0.019 seconds quicker than the Australian, who leads the Briton by 16 points in the world championship heading into the last race before Formula 1’s summer break.<\/p>\n
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was third fastest, 0.217secs off the pace, and split from team-mate Lewis Hamilton by Racing Bulls driver Isack Hadjar.<\/p>\n
Haas driver Oliver Bearman was sixth fastest, ahead of Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli and George Russell, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll.<\/p>\n
The other Aston Martin driver, Fernando Alonso, sat out the first session to rest a muscular issue in his back from which the two-time champion has been suffering since the Belgian Grand Prix last weekend.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard, who was replaced by reserve driver Felix Drugovich in the first session, is expected to be back in the car for the second.<\/p>\n
The session was relatively incident-free, despite Drugovich and Williams’ Carlos Sainz running wide at the first corner after locking their front brakes.<\/p>\n
Mercedes have reverted to an older rear suspension set-up for this weekend in an attempt to isolate where their car has lost performance in the last few races.<\/p>\n
The belief is that the newer suspension design, which featured a higher degree of anti-lift in an attempt to keep the aerodynamic platform more stable, might have induced other issues into the car’s behaviour on corner entry.<\/p>\n
Sauber also had a reserve driver in one of their cars, Paul Aron standing in for Nico Hulkenberg. But the Estonian, who is on loan from Alpine, managed only eight laps before a car failure brought his session to a halt.<\/p>\n
The other Sauber of Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto was 19th fastest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris headed team-mate Oscar Piastri to a McLaren one-two in first practice at the Hungarian Grand Prix.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-38275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}