Canadian Grand Prix winner George Russell was quickest again as Formula 1 resumed at the Red Bull Ring.

The Mercedes driver headed the first practice session with a best time of 1’05.542. Russell was among the first drivers to set a time on the soft rubber and none of the drivers who followed him were able to beat it.

Max Verstappen got closest after performing a slow out-lap and a similarly sedate building lap on his softs. He ended up just six hundredths of a second off the Mercedes.

The Red Bull driver has a different voice on his radio this weekend. Gianpiero Lambiase is absent due to personal reasons and Daniel Ricciardo’s former race engineer Simon Rennie has taken over for this weekend.

The F1 and F2 championship leaders were next, in a McLaren apiece. Oscar Piastri was third ahead of Alex Dunne, making his debut in an official F1 practice session at the wheel of Lando Norris’s MCL39.

Dunne set the pace in the F2 practice session earlier in the day. He made an impressive start to life in F1, lapping just six hundredths of a second slower than Piastri.

Pierre Gasly’s Alpine and Gabriel Bortoleto’s Sauber were close behind. The Williams pair came next, Carlos Sainz Jnr having briefly headed the times at one stage.

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Lewis Hamilton lost a significant amount of time due to a gearbox problem on his Ferrari. However he was able to rejoin the track on a set of soft tyres and set the ninth-fastest time, which put him ahead of Isack Hadjar.

Dino Beganovic replaced Charles Leclerc in the second SF-25 for this session. However he also lost time as Ferrari had to take the floor off his car at one stage.

He ended up 18th fastest, albeit just eight-tenths off the pace in the tightly-packed field. The Haas pair sat at the bottom of the times.

2025 Austrian Grand Prix Grand Prix first practice result

P. # Driver Team Model Time Gap Laps
1 63 George Russell Mercedes W16 1’05.542 34
2 1 Max Verstappen Red Bull-Honda RBPT RB21 1’05.607 0.065 30
3 81 Oscar Piastri McLaren-Mercedes MCL39 1’05.697 0.155 33
4 89 Alex Dunne McLaren-Mercedes MCL39 1’05.766 0.224 29
5 10 Pierre Gasly Alpine-Renault A525 1’05.780 0.238 34
6 5 Gabriel Bortoleto Sauber-Ferrari C45 1’05.874 0.332 35
7 23 Alexander Albon Williams-Mercedes FW47 1’05.946 0.404 35
8 55 Carlos Sainz Jnr Williams-Mercedes FW47 1’06.017 0.475 33
9 44 Lewis Hamilton Ferrari SF-25 1’06.099 0.557 20
10 6 Isack Hadjar Racing Bulls-Honda RBPT 02 1’06.110 0.568 33
11 12 Andrea Kimi Antonelli Mercedes W16 1’06.130 0.588 35
12 27 Nico Hulkenberg Sauber-Ferrari C45 1’06.140 0.598 32
13 18 Lance Stroll Aston Martin-Mercedes AMR25 1’06.160 0.618 32
14 14 Fernando Alonso Aston Martin-Mercedes AMR25 1’06.170 0.628 32
15 30 Liam Lawson Racing Bulls-Honda RBPT 02 1’06.189 0.647 34
16 43 Franco Colapinto Alpine-Renault A525 1’06.246 0.704 34
17 22 Yuki Tsunoda Red Bull-Honda RBPT RB21 1’06.262 0.720 30
18 38 Dino Beganovic Ferrari SF-25 1’06.369 0.827 32
19 31 Esteban Ocon Haas-Ferrari VF-25 1’06.510 0.968 32
20 87 Oliver Bearman Haas-Ferrari VF-25 1’06.738 1.196 30

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