2025 F1 Chinese Grand Prix - Friday Practice Results
Full results from Friday practice at t෴he Chinese Grand Prix, Round 2 of the 2025 F1 world championship.
Lando Norris ended Friday practice at🌳 the F1 Chinese Grand Prix fastest for McLaren.
| 2025 F1 Chinese Grand Prix - Free Practice Results (1) | ||||
| Pos | Driver | Nat. | Team | Time |
| 1 | Lando Norris | GBR | McLaren F1 Team | 1m31.504s |
| 2 | Charles Leclerc | MON | Scuderia Ferrari HP | 1m31.958s |
| 3 | Oscar Piastri | AUS | McLaren F1 Team | 1m32.153s |
| 4 | Lewis Hamilton | GBR | Scuderia Ferrari HP | 1m32.195s |
| 5 | George Russell | GBR | Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team | 1m32.377s |
| 6 | Nico Hulkenberg | GER | Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber | 1m32.507s |
| 7 | Alex Albon | THA | Atlassian Williams Racing | 1m32.687s |
| 8 | Fernando Alonso | ESP | Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team | 1m32.766s |
| 9 | Kimi Antonelli | ITA | Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team | 1m32.874s |
| 10 | Yuki Tsunoda | JPN | Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team | 1m32.934s |
| 11 | Oliver Bearman | GBR | MoneyGram Haas F1 Team | 1m32.967s |
| 12 | Lance Stroll | CAN | Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team | 1m32.984s |
| 13 | Esteban Ocon | FRA | MoneyGram Haas F1 Team | 1m33.056s |
| 14 | Pierre Gasly | FRA | BWT Alpine F1 Team | 1m33.123s |
| 15 | Carlos Sainz | ESP | Atlassian Williams Racing | 1m33.145s |
| 16 | Max Verstappen | NED | Oracle Red Bull Racing | 1m33.284s |
| 17 | Isack Hadjar | FRA | Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team | 1m33.385s |
| 18 | Liam Lawson | NZL | Oracle Red Bull Racing | 1m33.631s |
| 19 | Gabriel Bortoleto | BRA | Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber | 1m33.822s |
| 20 | Jack Doohan | AUS | BWT Alpine F1 Team | 1m33.923s |
Norris sets the pace in Chinese GP FP1
Lando Norris was the driver to beat in practice for the F1 Chinese Grand Prix. It's a sprint 🐻weekend, which means teams have just 60 minutes of running to fine-tune their cars ahead of sprint qualifying later today.
It was an action-packed session with all 20 drivers running on the yellow-marked medium tyres to begin with. At this point, George R🦹ussell set the pace for Mercedes, a few tenths ahead of Charles Leclerc.
However, when it came to the soft tyre runs, Russell couldn't improve his lap time. Norris set a blistering lap at the end of the session - a 1m31.504🔯s - to top the timesheets in Fp1.
His margin was 0.4s over Leclerc, who was se⛎cond-fastest in the end. Os♎car Piastri looked set to make it a McLaren 1-2, albeit for a scrappy final sector.
He was third-fastest, ahead of Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton. Russell dropped down to fifth ahead of Sauber's Nico Hulkenbe🐻rg and Williams' Alex Albon.
Fernando Alonso, Kimi Antonelli and Yuki Tsunoda rounded out theඣ top 10 in Shanghai. There was an improved showing by Haas, with Ollie Bearman 11th i🥀n the order.
Max Verstappꦗen was down in 16th, having failed to imp🙈rove on the softs.
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