Live F1 British Grand Prix practice: latest FP1 updates
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Luke Slater live updates. Tom Cary Senior Sports Correspondent, at Silverstone
04 July 2025 1:18pm
1:18PM
FP1 - James Vowles on Albon's latest lap
'Not a bad place to be... he lost it a little towards the end of the lap,' he says. 'Through turn one we're pretty quick.'
12 minutes remain.
1:16PM
FP1 - Albon moves seventh
Just over four tenths off the ultimate pace of Lewis Hamilton. Let's see what Carlos Sainz can do.
1:15PM
FP1 - Red/Racing Bull/Bulls update
The two fastest cars in the Red Bull stable are the Racing Bulls of Hadjar and Lawson in sixth and seventh... Max Verstappen is ninth and Arvid Lindblad is 18th.
Albon becomes the first Williams to leave the garage on something other than hard tyres. He is out on the softs and goes fastest of anyone in sector one...
1:13PM
FP1 - Hamilton hooks up a lap
And it's good enough to put him fastest of all! Not by a great deal, just 0.023sec, but he leads the two McLarens and then his team-mate. Tidy stuff. The Ferrari was improved in Austria (but still miles behind McLaren).
1:09PM
FP1 - 🟨 Yellow flags🟨
Bortoleto spins at Copse! He goes round... and round again... and round again, but stays just on the track and avoids the barriers. That will be a relief. He lost the rear end as he went over the exit kerb.
1:07PM
FP1 - Hamilton appears to abandon his lap
He had done the fastest first sector but then aborted the lap in the middle sector for some reason. We have yet to see what that is. Russell has popped up into second, within a tenth of Leclerc.
1:06PM
FP1 - Leclerc moves fastest
He has to negotiate some traffic towards the end of the lap but still finishes 0.183sec faster than Piastri (below), who had marginally improved on Norris's previous best time.
1:03PM
FP1 - Not a tremendous improvement from Norris on the softs
He goes fastest but only by 0.148sec over Hadjar's previous best. A few other soft runners not exactly setting the world alight but let's see what the Ferraris and Piastri can do. Looks promising so far.
1:02PM
FP1 - There is another junior driver in this session
Nico Hulkenberg has given up his Sauber to Estonian Paul Aron who is in fact an Alpine junior driver. Make of that what you will. He is currently 15th, 1.334sec off the pace. Soft tyre runs have now begun, so times should improve.
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