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F1 Grand Prix practice results: Leclerc fastest on Spanish GP Friday
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was fastest during Spanish Grand Prix practice in Barcelona on Friday, the sixth round of the 2022 Formula 1 World Championship.
Charles Bradley
Edited: May 20, 2022, 5:08 PM
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Leclerc was quickest in both FP1 and FP2, ahead of Mercedes duo George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, his Ferrari teammate Carlos Sainz and Red Bull’s reigning world champion Max Verstappen across the two one-hour sessions.
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Spanish Grand Prix FP1 results: Leclerc fastest from Sainz
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval 1 Charles Leclerc
Ferrari 27 1'19.828 2 Carlos Sainz
Ferrari 27 1'19.907 0.079 0.079 3 Max Verstappen
Red Bull 28 1'20.164 0.336 0.257 4 George Russell
Mercedes 28 1'20.590 0.762 0.426 5 Fernando Alonso
Alpine 24 1'20.768 0.940 0.178 6 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes 27 1'20.811 0.983 0.043 7 Lando Norris
McLaren 24 1'21.279 1.451 0.468 8 Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri 23 1'21.422 1.594 0.143 9 Daniel Ricciardo
McLaren 23 1'21.737 1.909 0.315 10 Yuki Tsunoda
AlphaTauri 28 1'21.814 1.986 0.077 11 Esteban Ocon
Alpine 26 1'21.891 2.063 0.077 12 Lance Stroll
Aston Martin 23 1'21.920 2.092 0.029 13 Robert Kubica
Alfa Romeo 20 1'21.975 2.147 0.055 14 Kevin Magnussen
Haas 16 1'22.089 2.261 0.114 15 Mick Schumacher
Haas 21 1'22.146 2.318 0.057 16 Sebastian Vettel
Aston Martin 20 1'22.164 2.336 0.018 17 Valtteri Bottas
Alfa Romeo 25 1'22.614 2.786 0.450 18 Nyck de Vries
Williams 28 1'22.920 3.092 0.306 19 Nicholas Latifi
Williams 27 1'23.011 3.183 0.091 20 Jüri Vips
Red Bull 23 1'24.138 4.310 1.127 View full results
What happened in Spanish GP Free Practice 1?
After early running on the hard tyres, Sainz set the bar on softs at 1m19.907s. That looked set to be toppled by Verstappen, who set the fastest first two sectors when he came across a huge amount of traffic towards the end of the lap.
Verstappen still managed 1m20.164s to go second to Sainz but then Leclerc beat them both with a session-topping 1m19.828s effort to make it a Ferrari 1-2.
Russell was best of the rest for Mercedes, lapping 0.762s off the pace on 1m20.590s. He later had a big moment when he came across the second Red Bull, driven for the first time in FP1 by F2 racer Juri Vips.
Fernando Alonso made it two local heroes in the top five, lapping his Alpine in 1m20.768s, just ahead of the second Mercedes of Hamilton – who almost had to go off track when he caught Alonso before the final corner sequence.
Both Alonso and Vips were later handed reprimands by the FIA stewards.
McLaren and AlphaTauri shared the rest of the top 10 spots, with Lando Norris ahead of Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda.
Robert Kubica also got an outing for Alfa Romeo, setting the 13th-fastest time, with Nyck de Vries making his Williams debut and just outpacing Nicholas Latifi to 18th.
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Spanish Grand Prix FP2 results: Leclerc fastest from Russell
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval 1 Charles Leclerc
Ferrari 29 1'19.670 2 George Russell
Mercedes 27 1'19.787 0.117 0.117 3 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes 26 1'19.874 0.204 0.087 4 Carlos Sainz
Ferrari 31 1'19.990 0.320 0.116 5 Max Verstappen
Red Bull 27 1'20.006 0.336 0.016 6 Fernando Alonso
Alpine 26 1'20.203 0.533 0.197 7 Sergio Perez
Red Bull 30 1'20.632 0.962 0.429 8 Sebastian Vettel
Aston Martin 31 1'20.703 1.033 0.071 9 Esteban Ocon
Alpine 27 1'20.745 1.075 0.042 10 Mick Schumacher
Haas 25 1'20.757 1.087 0.012 11 Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri 28 1'20.917 1.247 0.160 12 Kevin Magnussen
Haas 24 1'21.013 1.343 0.096 13 Lance Stroll
Aston Martin 32 1'21.249 1.579 0.236 14 Yuki Tsunoda
AlphaTauri 29 1'21.285 1.615 0.036 15 Daniel Ricciardo
McLaren 22 1'21.385 1.715 0.100 16 Valtteri Bottas
Alfa Romeo 3 1'21.828 2.158 0.443 17 Zhou Guanyu
Alfa Romeo 30 1'21.866 2.196 0.038 18 Alex Albon
Williams 31 1'22.319 2.649 0.453 19 Nicholas Latifi
Williams 25 1'23.197 3.527 0.878 20 Lando Norris
McLaren 6 1'23.388 3.718 0.191 View full results
What happened in Spanish GP Free Practice 2?
Teams ran medium tyres at the beginning of this session, with Verstappen leading the way on 1m20.932s, 0.046s ahead of Sainz and 0.063s quicker than Leclerc – the latter suffering a scruffy end to his lap.
Sebastian Vettel was the first to set a time on softs in his updated Aston Martin, which has been the talk of the paddock today, setting the bar at 1m20.703s. That was soon beaten by Verstappen on 1m20.006s.
Sainz pipped Verstappen’s time by 0.016s on 1m19.990s, before Leclerc convincingly beat them both with 1m19.670s.
Russell then got to within 0.117s of Leclerc’s fastest time on 1m19.787s, with Hamilton two tenths off the pace in third.
Alonso was sixth in this session, ahead of Sergio Perez (back in the second Red Bull), Vettel, Esteban Ocon (Alpine) and Mick Schumacher (Haas).
Sainz and Alex Albon (Williams) had a spat after Turn 1, which stewards will investigate after the session. Lando Norris and Albon both had big moments and ran wide at Turn 9.
Valtteri Bottas was an early casualty when “something broke” on his Alfa Romeo, forcing him to stop at Turn 1.
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