2025 Spanish Grand Prix FP1 report and highlights: Lando Norris sets the pace from Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton during first practice in Spain

Norris set the early pace during the first quarter of the session, the Briton recording a time of 1m 15.259s to go 0.221s clear of home favourite Fernando Alonso in the Aston Martin, a man whose last F1 victory came at this circuit in 2013.

Data gathering continued as the hour progressed, with plenty of laps going on the board across the field, while some drivers opted to switch tyres as they worked through their programmes. Mercedes’ George Russell was one of the first to swap to the medium C2 rubber before surging to the top of the timesheets on a 1m 14.751s at the halfway mark of the session.

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Nico Hulkenberg, meanwhile, became the first to run the soft C3 compound, with others soon following the Kick Sauber driver’s lead. One of these was Verstappen, who promptly went fastest only to be displaced by Norris moments later, the papaya car beating the Red Bull by three-tenths via an effort of 1m 13.718s.

There were some eye-catching additions to the top 10 during the final third of the hour, including the Racing Bulls of Lawson and Isack Hadjar – both of whom scored points last time out in Monaco – and the Haas of Ollie Bearman, the rookie in contrast searching for his first points since Bahrain this weekend.