F1 results: Max Verstappen fastest in Spanish GP practice

Verstappen was fastest in both FP1 and FP2, but Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso got to within 0.17s of the championship leader in the latter.

Spanish Grand Prix FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from Perez

Cla	Driver	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Max Verstappen	32	1'14.606			224.620
2	Sergio Perez	32	1'15.374	0.768	0.768	222.331
3	Esteban Ocon	28	1'15.418	0.812	0.044	222.201
4	Nyck de Vries	27	1'15.504	0.898	0.086	221.948
5	Pierre Gasly	27	1'15.545	0.939	0.041	221.828
6	Fernando Alonso	24	1'15.547	0.941	0.002	221.822
7	Kevin Magnussen	22	1'15.689	1.083	0.142	221.406
8	Charles Leclerc	28	1'15.694	1.088	0.005	221.391
9	Carlos Sainz	27	1'15.726	1.120	0.032	221.297
10	George Russell	32	1'15.753	1.147	0.027	221.218
11	Lando Norris	25	1'15.783	1.177	0.030	221.131
12	Lewis Hamilton	29	1'15.845	1.239	0.062	220.950
13	Zhou Guanyu	24	1'15.906	1.300	0.061	220.773
14	Yuki Tsunoda	27	1'15.915	1.309	0.009	220.746
15	Lance Stroll	25	1'15.939	1.333	0.024	220.677
16	Valtteri Bottas	24	1'15.978	1.372	0.039	220.563
17	Oscar Piastri	26	1'16.353	1.747	0.375	219.480
18	Nico Hulkenberg	28	1'16.461	1.855	0.108	219.170
19	Logan Sargeant	30	1'16.506	1.900	0.045	219.041
20	Alex Albon	28	1'16.630	2.024	0.124	218.687
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What happened in Spanish GP Free Practice 1?

Verstappen went to the top of the times five minutes into the session, setting 1m16.583s on the Pirelli prototype tyre, which will make its race debut at Silverstone.

His Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez briefly beat him with his first flying lap of 1m16.420s on medium-compound rubber, but Verstappen topped that with 1m15.945s, almost half a second clear.

Just after the halfway point of the session Verstappen switched to the softs, unleashing 1m14.606s, putting him 0.768s clear of Perez.

As in Monaco, Esteban Ocon was best of the rest for Alpine, eight tenths down on Verstappen and less than a tenth clear of an impressive Nyck de Vries (AlphaTauri).

Pierre Gasly (Alpine) was fifth fastest but collided with Logan Sargeant’s Williams at the Turn 10 hairpin. Alonso was sixth for Aston, just under a second off the pace, head of Kevin Magnussen’s Haas.

The Ferrari duo were eighth and ninth, with Charles Leclerc fractionally faster running the old sidepods than Carlos Sainz, who was using the new Red Bull-style setup. George Russell rounded out the top 10 in the updated Mercedes, two spots ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

Spanish Grand Prix FP2 results: Verstappen fastest from Alonso

Cla	Driver	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Max Verstappen	34	1'13.907			226.744
2	Fernando Alonso	30	1'14.077	0.170	0.170	226.224
3	Nico Hulkenberg	31	1'14.177	0.270	0.100	225.919
4	Sergio Perez	30	1'14.219	0.312	0.042	225.791
5	Esteban Ocon	30	1'14.242	0.335	0.023	225.721
6	Charles Leclerc	32	1'14.246	0.339	0.004	225.709
7	Carlos Sainz	32	1'14.274	0.367	0.028	225.624
8	George Russell	31	1'14.392	0.485	0.118	225.266
9	Valtteri Bottas	32	1'14.448	0.541	0.056	225.096
10	Pierre Gasly	29	1'14.457	0.550	0.009	225.069
11	Lewis Hamilton	31	1'14.549	0.642	0.092	224.791
12	Oscar Piastri	30	1'14.583	0.676	0.034	224.689
13	Zhou Guanyu	29	1'14.585	0.678	0.002	224.683
14	Lando Norris	30	1'14.694	0.787	0.109	224.355
15	Kevin Magnussen	24	1'14.713	0.806	0.019	224.298
16	Nyck de Vries	33	1'14.785	0.878	0.072	224.082
17	Yuki Tsunoda	34	1'14.840	0.933	0.055	223.917
18	Lance Stroll	31	1'15.010	1.103	0.170	223.410
19	Alex Albon	32	1'15.056	1.149	0.046	223.273
20	Logan Sargeant	33	1'15.415	1.508	0.359	222.210
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What happened in Spanish GP Free Practice 2?

Verstappen set the early benchmark on prototype tyre at 1m15.655s before Sainz took P1 with 1m14.999s, versus Leclerc’s 1m15.600s, both set on soft tyres.

Verstappen didn’t stay in third for long, slinging on a set of mediums and going fastest on 1m14.968s, just 0.031s faster than Sainz despite a scruffy lap.

Sainz responded by jumping to a new set of softs, producing 1m14.274s, before Verstappen put him in his place with a 1m13.907s. Alonso took second with the fastest final sector time, just 0.17s away from Verstappen overall.