Results First Free Practice 2022 Azerbaijan F1 Grand Prix
Event: Azerbaijan F1 Grand Prix
Track: Baku street circuit
Weather: dry 25.4°C
Tarmac: dry 41.2°C
Humidity: 46%
Wind: 2.0 m/s N
Pressure: 1014.9 bar
The weather was perfect in Baku during this first practice for the Azerbaijan GP. Almost every team brought a new low downforce back wing to Baku, to try and get a high top speed as possible. Alfa Romeo also was using a new Italian flag livery.
The Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton showed a lot of proposing on the long straight the first laps. Mick Schumacher caused a virtual safety car period when his car broke stopped at turn 12. A safety system turned off the enigne as the Haas leaked a lot of cooling water.
Carlos Sainz also told his team on the radio that his car wasn't very nice to drive because it was bouncing a lot.
After 12 minutes Verstappen put in a quick lap on a set of mediums and rounded the street track in 1:46.932 min and was almost 0.8s faster than his teammate Sergio Pérez who was second fastest.
Fernando Alonso showed good pace with the Alpine on medium tyres and was 4th quickest in front of Sainz, who was on hard tyres.
17 minutes into the session a second virtual safety car period was used to recover the stranded Williams of Nicholas Latifi. At that moment Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc was second fastest on +0.067s using a set of hard tyres.
Haas driver Kevin Magnussen was the first to try out a set of soft tyres. His time was 7th quickest on 1.8 sec. behind Verstappen who drove his lap on medium tyres.
Verstappen again had a DRS problem. This time the rear wing of the Red Bull was flapping around a lot when the Dutchman used DRS.
With 20 minutes both Red Bulls had tried out a set of the quickest soft tyres and Pérez ended up fastest with a 1:45.476 min. His teammate Verstappen was second on +0.334s. Leclerc was 3rd on +0.348s and Sainz was 4th on +0.536s, while Hamilton was 1.5s slower on P5. All had set their laptime on soft tyres.
Both McLarens didn't got up to speed with Daniel Ricciardo on P18 and Lando Norris on P11.
Last year the quickest lap time of FP1 was a 1:43.184 min, driven by Max Verstappen with the Red Bull.
FP1 Times Table 2022 Azerbaijan GP
| P | No | Driver | Team | Time | 1st Gap | Laps | Tyres |
| 1 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | 1:45,476 | 21 | S | |
| 2 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:45,603 | +0,127s | 21 | S |
| 3 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:45,810 | +0,334s | 25 | S |
| 4 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 1:46,012 | +0,536s | 22 | S |
| 5 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine | 1:46,571 | +1,095s | 22 | S |
| 6 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:46,667 | +1,191s | 21 | S |
| 7 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | 1:46,696 | +1,220s | 25 | S |
| 8 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 1:46,705 | +1,229s | 24 | S |
| 9 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | 1:46,830 | +1,354s | 25 | S |
| 10 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 1:46,917 | +1,441s | 21 | S |
| 11 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 1:47,691 | +2,215s | 19 | S |
| 12 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 1:47,847 | +2,371s | 24 | M |
| 13 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 1:47,946 | +2,470s | 24 | S |
| 14 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | 1:47,970 | +2,494s | 22 | M |
| 15 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo | 1:48,078 | +2,602s | 22 | S |
| 16 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Alfa Romeo | 1:48,222 | +2,746s | 24 | S |
| 17 | 23 | Alex Albon | Williams | 1:48,419 | +2,943s | 22 | S |
| 18 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren | 1:48,810 | +3,334s | 22 | S |
| 19 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | 1:50,921 | +5,445s | 7 | M |
| 20 | 47 | Mick Schumacher | Haas | 1:58,332 | +12,856s | 3 | M |
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