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2025 Formula 1 Emilia Romagna GP
May 15, 2025 to May 18, 2025
| Imola, IT
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08:42:53 am
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That's all from us - we'll see you shortly for all of the action as it happens in FP2!
We'll see you then, as we go and scout for a bit of lunch.
08:42:05 am
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Formula 1
F1 Imola GP: Piastri fastest from Norris in FP1, Bortoleto crashes
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08:38:42 am
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Lance Stroll, Aston Martin Racing
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08:34:34 am
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Checkered flag
08:31:57 am
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FP1 at Imola over - Piastri fastest over Norris
Bortoleto's incident brings the opening hour of running to a close.
Piastri is fastest by a smidgen over Norris, with Sainz, Russell, Hamilton, Gasly, Verstappen, Albon, Bortoleto, and Hulkenberg completing the top 10.
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08:29:39 am
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Bortoleto has found the wall at Rivazza, and brings the session to a presumed close. He's not done too much damage, but he's skipped across the gravel as he loses the rear and goes into the barriers.
"I think it was just the front wing," Bortoleto says of the damage.
08:27:34 am
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There's a replay of Verstappen looking less than pleased with his Red Bull machinery as he sustains a snap outside of Tosa.
He stated earlier that he 'couldn't trust' the rear of the car - he's seventh, 0.2s behind Gasly.
08:25:17 am
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Most of the drivers appear to be seeing how far they can stretch a set of softs over a stint - with a couple on the mediums. Barring any late changes, it doesn't look like we'll get a lot of moment on the timing boards.
Bearman is out on a set of mediums; he's got the new Haas updates for this second, and Ocon will receive them for FP2.
08:20:03 am
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Sainz put his car third, just over half a tenth shy of the current fastest lap. Elsewhere at Williams, Albon had a pretty big off through the second phase of Tamburello, and skipped across the grass/gravel - plus a further moment at Rivazza.
Leclerc also had another moment at Variante Alta, as the gravel is getting rearranged fairly often in this session.
Colapinto is up to 17th, as the top 18 is currently all within a second of Piastri's pace.
08:14:04 am
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Sainz remains sixth but gets within 0.2s of Piastri's lap with a purple first sector. It does seem that the Williams struggles to extract tyre performance over the final part of the lap.
Tsunoda's struggling with traffic, and has to abort another lap at Villeneuve. Hulkenberg also finds Hamilton ahead of him on the run to Piratella, and Colapinto tousles the gravel.
08:09:45 am
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Hamilton is struggling to slow his Ferrari down, but nonetheless puts it in third. Norris goes second, 0.032s off Piastri on already-lapped tyres.
Albon sets the fastest first sector, but loses a bit of time in sector two and sustains a minor wide moment at Turn 14 and only goes up to eighth.
08:07:36 am
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Gasly's looking fleet of foot at the moment - he's not running that nose we showed you earlier, but nonetheless brings the car up to third with a run on the softs.
As it stands, our top 10 is Piastri, Russell, Gasly, Sainz, Verstappen, Bortoleto, Hulkenberg, Albon, Leclerc, and Antonelli.
Norris was on course to get his car up there, but bailed from his lap after encountering traffic in the first sector.
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08:04:14 am
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It's a 1m16.545s from Piastri, 0.054s ahead of Russell's earlier benchmark.
Russell, meanwhile, notes the plank wear emerging from Antonelli ahead - lots of bottoming out in that Mercedes at the moment through Tamburello.
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08:00:24 am
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Rosso on rosso: Hamilton takes a tour past the tifosi at Turn 14
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07:59:41 am
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"Helmet lift is horrible," Leclerc says, struggling to keep his head down in the car. He wants a different screen in front of the cockpit to reduce the issue.
Verstappen gets up to second, as Red Bull appears to be running with "classic" numbers on the car - type set in Futura, bordered in white.
Sainz then dispatches Verstappen from the second spot, getting within 0.3s of Russell.
07:54:30 am
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When we get to qualifying, it won't be entirely surprising to see a handful of the front-runners do their first runs on mediums - the C5 might be slower overall, but it depends how the C6s hang on through the entirety of the lap.
07:53:26 am
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Russell bolts on a fresh set of softs and turns in a 1m16.599s, with a full house of purple sectors. That's 0.526s faster than Norris, although the McLaren driver's run was on a used set.
Verstappen is on a used set, and gets close to Russell's first-sector pace, but the time begins to ebb away through the second sector - and has a twitch at the rear to only feed into 11th.
Albon goes up to third place, Gasly then usurps the Anglo-Thai to go second (on mediums!), and Antonelli then goes third himself - 0.495s off Russell's time. Sainz then goes fourth.
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07:48:25 am
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Stroll gets the upgraded Aston to sixth, before Piastri and Gasly move up to third and fourth to shuffle the Astons down two spots.
Norris finds even more time in the middle sector, and posts a 1m17.125s to extend his advantage at the top of the timesheets for now. Bortoleto, meanwhile, goes P2 on the mediums - albeit 0.423s off the pace.
The track seems to be improving - Hadjar's done a purple first sector, but 'only' goes sixth - and 0.537s off the pace.
07:44:16 am
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Leclerc has another moment at the Variante Alta (Turn 14/15) with an off as he understeers into the gravel. He gets it right on another lap and he goes fourth for now.
Hamilton then turns in a lap and sets a purple middle sector - which takes him up to third - 0.227s off Norris' pace.
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07:42:04 am
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Gasly goes top with a 1m18.110s, but that's quickly overhauled; Norris does a 1m17.491s, Russell a 1m17.561s, and Antonelli a 1m17.938s.
Alonso then wedges himself into the top three - bear in mind that the Spaniard does not have the new Aston Martin updates in this session. These are on Stroll's car, and Aston will then decide post-session to kit out Alonso's car.
07:40:32 am
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Bortoleto has a few grievances with his Sauber and asks the team to check the ride height. "It's bottoming like crazy," the Brazilian says, as he's audibly scraping the ground at the start-finish straight.
Meanwhile, Colapinto posts another lap on medium tyres, just looking to get his eye in at the moment - and it's faster, and good enough for 13th.
07:37:54 am
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Tsunoda now goes top with a 1m18.538s on his first tour of Imola in this session. It's a circuit he knows well, from various runs in old machinery with his former RB team - which is based just up the road.
Alonso then sets a 1m18.281s to go top, this time unimpeded by Leclerc.
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07:36:09 am
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C6 tyres get their debut
First laps are in, Antonelli is currently top with a 1m18.780s - as Norris buzzes in into second - 0.017s behind. Verstappen is a tenth off Antonelli in their first runs with the C6 tyre.
Meanwhile, Alonso and Leclerc almost have a coming together at the Variante Alta.
07:34:26 am
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Alpine front wing
Another change at Alpine: Colapinto is running with the old front wing, while Pierre Gasly looks set to try the new one in FP1. Here's a side-by-side comparison - old wing on the right, 'new' one on the left (that looks very similar to the A524 front end from last year...)
Lights green
07:31:31 am
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FP1 begins at Imola
Ollie Bearman is first onto the circuit, as Carlos Sainz joins him. Haas has quite a few upgrades to analyse in this session - Williams, however, does not. Colapinto is also out on the road in an Alpine.
07:25:31 am
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Five minutes to FP1 start
This is your official alert - FP1 at Imola set to get underway very shortly.
07:25:02 am
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07:15:11 am
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Briatore's back, and in team leader form
With the departure of team principal Oliver Oakes, Flavio Briatore is taking on the Briton's responsibilities at Alpine.
As he's not technically an employee of the team, the controversial Italian cannot represent it in official press sessions - racing director Dave Greenwood will fill that void until further notice.
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07:12:13 am
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Colapinto returns as Doohan returns to sidelines
Franco Colapinto is back in an F1 seat this weekend, as Jack Doohan moves back to the sidelines. The Argentine is on a five-race deal to prove he deserves the seat on a full-time basis.
Franco Colapinto, Alpine
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Colapinto, speaking yesterday: "There has been a lot of work in the background. Apart from the last couple of days, also before. I’ve been doing a lot of sim work for the team. Of course, not trackside but still helping the team to try to develop the car during race weekends.
"It has helped me a bit to learn the car, the tools, the different settings the team is running, because I’m not very used to it.
"It's been a really long time since I’ve been in a race weekend. A bit rusty maybe, but I think it’s going to come off very quickly."
07:08:02 am
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Updates aplenty around the F1 field
As it's the start of the European season, the traditional unveiling of new parts has come with it. All except Williams and Sauber have registered updates on the usual FIA document sent to us.
Red Bull has new sidepods, Ferrari has a Imola-spec rear wing, as does McLaren, and Mercedes has a new front wing. Aston Martin, Haas, Racing Bulls, and Alpine have also rung plenty of changes to gain ground in the midfield battle.
The new Red Bull bits are on top, with the Miami spec at the bottom.
Red Bull Racing RB21 technical detail, Miami GP, Emilia Romagna GP
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07:04:19 am
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07:03:58 am
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Free practice 1 at Imola
Hello everyone, welcome along to our live feed of FP1 at Imola - we've just over 25 minutes until the first session of the weekend gets underway in Italy.
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Published: May 16, 2025, 12:42 PM
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