Bottas arrived in Barcelona having to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:rubbish reports🙈 about his future at Mercedes but made the perfect start to the weekend and sent a message to꧅ hi⛄s critics by topping the FP1 timesheets.

The F🎃inn’s best lap - a 1m18.504s - saw him pip Verstappen to the quickest time,ಞ although the Dutchman appeared to leave time on the table in a far from ideal run on the Soft tyres.

Verstappen aborted his first effort having encountered traffic and then ran wide at Turn 10 on his secꦗond timed run, but was still able to get within 0.033s of Bottas’ benchmark.

Seven-time world cha෴mpion Lewis Hamilton, who is going for a fifth successive Spanish GP win, was a tenth furth🍌er behind in the second Mercedes.

Lando Norris was an impressive fourth as he looks to continue his superb start to the season, with McLaren trialling ♛a new front nose and floor this weekend in Spain.

The Ferrari duo of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz were an encouraging fifth and sixth ♐as the only runners who opted to set their best lap times on Mediums tyres.

AlphaTauri’s 🌼Pierre Gasly was seventh-quickest ahead of Sebastian Vettel, who outpaced Red Bull driver Sergio Perez and Aston Martin teammate Lance Stroll as he continues to get up to speed with his new team.

Furtheജr down the order, Roy Nissany finished 17th-fastest in his firsꦏt practice appearance of 2021, deputising for Williams regular George Russell.

The session was briefly red-flagged with 15 minutes to go when Alfa Romeo reserve driver Robert Kubica beached his car in the gravel following a spin at Turn 10. Kubica will hand the C🌊41 back over to Kimi Raikkonen for FP2.

Kubica ended his first FP1 outing of the year in 19th, ahead of Haas rookie Nikita Mazepin, who spun at Turn 8 on his way to🧸 setting the slowest tಌime of the session.

FULL RESULTS FROM OPENING PRACTICE AT THE 2021 F1 SPANISH GRAND PRIX.