British GP: Free Practice 1 - Re-Cap & Times

BRITISH GRAND PRIX - FREE PRACTICE #1

    A pretty quiet first practice session for the British GP weekend. Rain is possibly expected for FP2, but nothing too extreme. Mercedes led the session on the Medium compound, going almost two seconds quicker than Hulkenberg, who finished 3rd on the time sheets. 

    Ferrari ran the 'Halo 2' concept on Vettel's car for a few laps before taking it back off. The Halo has been confirmed as F1's new head protection solution for 2017. The Halo was chosen over Red Bull's 'Aeroscreen' concept and quite a few people disagree with the decision.

    Esteban Ocon, who currently drives in the 2016 DTM season and is Renault's reserve driver, drove for Renault in this session, in place of Kevin Magnussen. Taking the place of Esteban Gutierrez at Haas for this session was current GP3 Championship leader, Charles Leclerc from Monaco. 

    At the end of the session there were a couple of mechanical related issues when Rosberg reported an ERS deployment problem and Vettel reported gearbox issues just after the chequered flag was waved. Luckily for Vettel, he does not face any grid penalties as he was not running the gearbox that will be used for the race.

TIMES:

1. Lewis Hamilton - 1:31.654 / Mercedes-Mercedes

2. Nico Rosberg - 1:31.687 / Mercedes-Mercedes

3. Nico Hulkenberg - 1:32.492 / Force India-Mercedes

4. Sebastian Vettel - 1:32.501 / Ferrari-Ferrari

5. Daniel Ricciardo - 1:32.773 / Red Bull-TAG-HEUER

6. Kimi Raikkonen - 1:33.039 / Ferrari-Ferrari

7. Max Verstappen - 1:33.202 / Red Bull-TAG-HEUER

8. Sergio Perez - 1:33.235 / Force India-Mercedes

9. Carlos Sainz - 1:33.446 / Toro Rosso-Ferrari

10. Fernando Alonso - 1:33.527 / McLaren-Honda

11. Daniil Kvyat - 1:33.738 / Toro Rosso-Ferrari

12. Jenson Button - 1:34.132 / McLaren-Honda

13. Valtteri Bottas - 1:34.263 / Williams-Mercedes

14. Felipe Massa - 1:34.456 / Williams-Mercedes

15. Romain Grosjean - 1:34.547 / Haas-Ferrari

16. Jolyon Palmer - 1:34.787 / Renault-Renault

17. Felipe Nasr - 1:34.805 / Sauber-Ferrari

18. Charles Leclerc - 1:35.869 / Haas-Ferrari*

19. Esteban Ocon - 1:35.980 / Renault-Renault*

20. Marcus Ericsson - 1:36.003 / Sauber-Ferrari

21. Pascal Wehrlein - 1:36.136 / Manor-Mercedes

22. Rio Haryanto - 1:36.647 / Manor-Mercedes

* - Only driving in FP1

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