Lap times 1st practice 2018 Hungarian F1 Grand Prix

View on Hungaroring turn 14

Event: Hungarian Grand Prix
Track: Hungaroring

Weather:  Sunny,  26ºC
Tarmac: Dry, 38ºC
Wind speed: 3.2 km/h
Humidity: 56%

The first practice for the 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix was kicked-off by Antonio Giovinazzi, who again was allowed to get some experience with the Sauber C37 in the car of Charles Leclerc.

All Ferrari personnel were wearing black ribbons on their arm and

Both Red Bull drivers recorded the first lap times this session. It was 1:19.556 min for Daniel Riccoardo and 1:19.280 min for Max Verstappen. Both times were set on Medium tyres, the hardest compound of this weekend.

Kimi Raikkonen drove similar lap times with the Ferrari in the early stage of the session, but used the Ultrasoft Pirelli tyres.

The track was very green. We saw a lot of drivers who couldn't keep their car on the black stuff. After half an hour into the session we saw Marcus Ericsson spin off in turn 14 with the Alfa Romeo Sauber car. Ten minutes later Verstappen also made spin in turn 1.

We also saw Lewis Hamilton and Antonio Giovinazzi locking up their right front tyre in the braking zone of turn 1.

Stoffel Vandoorne who wasn't able to show his talent until now this season, got a new McLaren chassis. McLaren discovered in Germany that the car of the Belgian driver had less downforce than the car of his teammate Fernando Alonso.

All Ferrari powered cars (Haas and Sauber) got the newest Ferrari (2018 spec-3) power unit for this weekend. In hour into the session Ericsson lost control of his Sauber again. This time he lost control of his car in high speed corner 4, were the cars reach a speed of around 250 km/h.

A few moments later it was Nico Hulkenberg who lost all power in his Renault in turn 4. His FP1 ended in turn 5.

After Hulkenberg's exit both Red Bull's got fresh Soft compound tyres and Ricciardo beat the fastest lap time of 1:17.692 min of Kimi Raikkonen, who set that time on the faster Ultrasoft tyres. Ricciardo drove the quickets lap of the session 1:17.613 min.

The quickest lap time driven in FP1 last year was 1:18.486 min driven by Australian Ricciardo. The quickest laptime of this seasons FP1 in Hungary was 0,873 sec. faster.

Get more info in our article: What to expect from the 2018 Hungarian F1 GP?

FP1 Lap Times 2018 Hungarian GP

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