Lewis꧒ Hamilton headed up a one-two finish for Mercedes in opening practice for the French Grand Prix on Friday at Paul Ricard, pippin🔯g teammate Valtteri Bottas by less than one-tenth of a second.

After missing most of Thursday’s commitments at Paul✨ Ricard to attend a memorial to Karl Lagerfeld in Paris, cha𓆉mpionship leader Hamilton hit the ground running in FP1 to lead the field.

Hamilton set a fastes🌞t lap time of 1m32.738s to edge out Mercedes te♑ammate Bottas by 0.069 seconds at the top of the timesheets, giving the German marque a one-two finish to start the race weekend.

Charles Leclerc took third overall for Ferrari as the team played around with different parts 🍎on the SF90 car, leaving a 30-minute break in the middle of the session where neither of its cars went out on-track.

Sebastian Vett🧸el was able to rise up to fifth place late in the standings, finishing one second off Hamilton’s time as he sl♏otted in behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

Both Verstappen and teammate Pierre Gasly had on-track spins as they struggled in theܫ warm conditions, with Gasly narrowly keeping his Red Bull RB15 out of the wall. The Frenchman ended the session sixth-fastest.

McLaren made a strong start to the weekend as Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz ended FP1 seventh and eighth respectively, whi🥀le 🦩Daniel Ricciardo took ninth for Renault ahead of Toro Rosso’s Alexander Albon, who completed the top 10.

Williams development driver Nicholas Latifi took part in his second practice session of🃏 💯the year, outpacing teammate Robert Kubica, while Romain Grosjean completed only nine laps due to a water leak.