Hungary F1 test: Leclerc puts Ferrari on top on Day 1

The Formula 2 championship leader used the Pirelli soft compound tyre to clock a 1m17.746s in the closing minutes of the eight-hour session, finishing 0.088s quicker than McLaren's Vandoorne.

Vandoorne, who set the benchmark in the morning but stopped early with a mechanical problem, spent most of the afternoon in the garage.

But he got out in the latter part of the session, with the team hoping to gather data on a series of new parts, and set his best lap on the ultrasoft tyres.

Valtteri Bottas - carrying out tyre testing for Pirelli - was third, 0.986s adrift, as he clocked the most laps of anybody with 155.

GP3 racer George Russell completed his first F1 test with the fourth quickest time, improving on his morning time by nearly a second and clocking up more than 100 laps.

Lance Stroll, filling in for an unwell Felipe Massa at Williams, was fifth with a tally of 137 laps and 2.1s off the pace, followed by Force India's Nikita Mazepin.

Mercedes DTM frontrunner Lucas Auer took over driving duties at Force India in the afternoon and ended up ninth quickest.

Nicholas Latifi, who will hand his Renault over to Robert Kubica on Wednesday, was seventh for Renault.

Toro Rosso's Sean Gelael, who had his running cut short because of a problem but recovered track time in the afternoon when he focused longer runs and testing development items, was eighth.

Haas junior Santino Ferrucci ended up 10th quickest, ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who improved on his morning time by 1.4 seconds, with Gustav Malja propping up the timesheets.

Day 1 times:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:17.746		98
2	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	1:17.834	+0.088	72
3	Valtteri Bottas*	Mercedes	1:18.777	+1.031	155
4	George Russell	Mercedes	1:19.231	+1.485	119
5	Lance Stroll	Williams	1:19.866	+2.120	138
6	Nikita Mazepin	Force India	1:19.910	+2.164	52
7	Nicholas Latifi	Renault	1:20.302	+2.556	54
8	Sean Gelael	Toro Rosso	1:20.341	+2.595	101
9	Lucas Auer	Force India	1:20.563	+2.817	54
10	Santino Ferrucci	Haas	1:21.185	+3.439	102
11	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:21.228	+3.482	58
12	Gustav Malja	Sauber	1:21.503	+3.757	108

* - performing Pirelli tyre testing