F1 results: Max Verstappen fastest in British GP practice

Verstappen was quickest in FP1 and FP2, setting the fastest time of the day at 1m28.078s, just 0.022s quicker than Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, while Alex Albon shone for Williams.

British Grand Prix FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from Perez

Cla	Driver		Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Max Verstappen		26	1'28.600			239.363
2	Sergio Perez		22	1'29.048	0.448	0.448	238.159
3	Alex Albon		22	1'29.089	0.489	0.041	238.049
4	Fernando Alonso		21	1'29.268	0.668	0.179	237.572
5	Charles Leclerc		25	1'29.280	0.680	0.012	237.540
6	Esteban Ocon		23	1'29.319	0.719	0.039	237.436
7	Carlos Sainz		25	1'29.357	0.757	0.038	237.335
8	Lando Norris		25	1'29.441	0.841	0.084	237.112
9	Lance Stroll		26	1'29.471	0.871	0.030	237.033
10	Oscar Piastri		16	1'29.658	1.058	0.187	236.538
11	Nyck de Vries		26	1'29.691	1.091	0.033	236.451
12	Lewis Hamilton		23	1'29.768	1.168	0.077	236.248
13	Pierre Gasly		24	1'29.828	1.228	0.060	236.091
14	George Russell		28	1'29.874	1.274	0.046	235.970
15	Valtteri Bottas		22	1'30.090	1.490	0.216	235.404
16	Yuki Tsunoda		28	1'30.092	1.492	0.002	235.399
17	Logan Sargeant		24	1'30.124	1.524	0.032	235.315
18	Zhou Guanyu		20	1'30.321	1.721	0.197	234.802
19	Kevin Magnussen		21	1'30.385	1.785	0.064	234.636
20	Nico Hulkenberg		22	1'30.591	1.991	0.206	234.102
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What happened in British GP Free Practice 1?

Verstappen set the early pace on hard tyres at 1m29.863s before the soft tyre runs began at the halfway point of the session.

Sainz produced 1m29.357s, which was briefly topped by Esteban Ocon’s Alpine with 1m29.319s, before Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took over the P1 spot with 1m29.280s.

Verstappen then stamped his authority on proceedings with 11 minutes remaining by lapping in 1m28.836s. Perez only just took P2 by 0.041s from the Williams of Albon but they were almost half a second adrift of Verstappen.

Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) beat Leclerc into fourth, with Ocon, Sainz, Lando Norris (McLaren), Lance Stroll (Aston) and Oscar Piastri (McLaren) rounding out the top 10.

British Grand Prix FP2 results: Verstappen fastest from Sainz

Cla	Driver		Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Max Verstappen		27	1'28.078			240.782
2	Carlos Sainz		29	1'28.100	0.022	0.022	240.721
3	Alex Albon		30	1'28.296	0.218	0.196	240.187
4	Sergio Perez		30	1'28.342	0.264	0.046	240.062
5	Logan Sargeant		29	1'28.766	0.688	0.424	238.915
6	Lance Stroll		30	1'28.866	0.788	0.100	238.646
7	Nico Hulkenberg		28	1'28.880	0.802	0.014	238.609
8	Pierre Gasly		27	1'28.889	0.811	0.009	238.585
9	Oscar Piastri		29	1'28.926	0.848	0.037	238.485
10	Fernando Alonso		26	1'29.134	1.056	0.208	237.929
11	Zhou Guanyu		28	1'29.225	1.147	0.091	237.686
12	George Russell		25	1'29.238	1.160	0.013	237.652
13	Esteban Ocon		24	1'29.242	1.164	0.004	237.641
14	Lando Norris		24	1'29.260	1.182	0.018	237.593
15	Lewis Hamilton		24	1'29.283	1.205	0.023	237.532
16	Valtteri Bottas		28	1'29.378	1.300	0.095	237.279
17	Kevin Magnussen		20	1'29.439	1.361	0.061	237.118
18	Yuki Tsunoda		25	1'29.483	1.405	0.044	237.001
19	Nyck de Vries		29	1'29.571	1.493	0.088	236.768
20	Charles Leclerc		0
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What happened in British GP Free Practice 2?

After a delayed start due to a clean-up at Copse Corner, following a big crash in F2 qualifying, Sainz set the medium-tyred pace at 1m29.083s.

Team switched to the softs earlier in this session, with Verstappen jumping to the top with a time of 1m28.078s, to which Sainz responded with 1m28.100s, just 0.022s slower.

Albon was third quickest again, ahead of Perez and his Williams team-mate Logan Sargeant. Stroll, who lost track time when his left-side mirror broke and hurt his finger when it was hit by a stone, was sixth quickest from Nico Hulkenberg (Haas), Pierre Gasly (Alpine), Piastri and Alonso.

Leclerc was stranded in the pits with an electrical problem for the entire session.

Neither Mercedes driver featured in the top 10 in either of the practices but did show better pace on long runs.

Nyck de Vries suffered a right-front puncture on his AlphaTauri on his final lap.