It was a busy first pract🍰ice session for F1's 2022 Spanish Grand Prix with all teams except Haas bringing new upgrades ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚto this weekend's race.

Barcelona is a mixture of low, medium and high-speed corners so it gives teams the necessary data to det💞ermine whether their new part꧟s are working.

Charles Leclerc set the pace for Ferrari with a ruꦏn on the 🐬softs, beating teammate Carlos Sainz by less than a tenth of a second.

Reigning F1 champion Max Verstappen was third-fastest after encounterinওg traffic in the final sector on his best effort.

The Dutchman was 0.3s down but will be confiden꧅t going into the second session giv🙈en his lap was disrupted.

Behind the usual top three was Ge🌱orge Russell in the Merc🐼edes, just 0.6s down on Leclerc's top time.

Fernando Alonso was a strong fifth in front🐽 of his home crowd, ahead of former McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton.

Hamilton was a few tenths shy of Russell bﷺut encountered traffic i⛄n the form of Alonso on his best effort.

Lando🎀 Norris, Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo✅ and Yuki Tsunoda rounded out the top 10.

Nyck de Vries was 18th on his first outing for 🧸Will🍃iams as teams are all required to run a rookie driver on two occasions in 2022.

Juri Vips was in th🐼e Red Bull in place of Sergio Perez - he was 20th oꦆverall.