Team Summary:
With the start of the Friday practice both Williams Racing cars would complete single lap install laps. The first times would be set with Norris setting a 1m:36.584 to be ahead of Ricciardo, Perez, Verstappen, Gasly, and Hamilton sixth. But the session would be Red Flagged when the Alpine of Ocon was to lsoe part of his bodywork seeing debris across the track. Both McLaren's were on the soft tyre and both Mercedes on the medium. The session would be restarted as Verstappen went fastest with a 1m:34.783 with the Williams drivers 13th and 18th. Alonso was second from Perez, Sainz, Leclerc, Hamilton, Norris, Russell, Ricciardo, and Tsunoda tenth.

The Williams drivers were now 14th and 17th with both back in their pits. The cars from tenth to 19th were all using the hard tyre while those above there was a mix of soft and medium tyres. Verstappen was on the medium. Perez was now second also on the medium with Alonso third followed by Ocon. Both Alpine's were on the soft tyre. The Ferrari's were in seventh and ninth both on the hard tyre. On the soft tyre Russell would go quickest with a 1m:34.629 using the soft tyre. With more soft tyre runs Gasly went fastest with a 1m:34.193 with the Williams drivers now 11th and 19th.

Leclerc was now second followed by Sainz, Russell, Verstappen, Stroll, Tsunoda, Perez, Alonso and Ocon tenth. With further laps the Williams pair were 12th and 14th. But they would drop to 13th and 15th as the session drew to a close. Gasly would remain quickest from Leclerc, Sainz, Russell, Verstappen, Stroll, Hamilton, Alonso, Tsunoda, and Perez tenth. The cars would be allowed to complete practice starts. With still so many unknowns coming off the session it was encouraging to see Nicholas 1.4s off the quickest soft tyre time which was not a huge margin. But yet to set some cars use the soft tyre. FP2 will give us more of a feeling.

Alex Albon:
Alex would follow his team mate using the same tyre for also a single lap. Alex would join Nicholas back out also using the hard tyre. He would set a 1m:38.920 to be down in 18th. A 1m:38.580 would see him 16th but he would drop to 18th pitting after a five lap run. He would also return for a soft tyre run. Alex would fail to improve and after three laps would pit briefly. Alex was pushing and would run wide ruining his lap. But he would finally set a 1m:36.050 to be 13th. He would drop to 15th with the end of the session.

Nicholas Latifi:
Nicholas was first out for Williams on the hard tyre for an installation lap. With the session restart Nicholas would return still on the hard tyre. He would set a 1,m:38.461 to be 12th, dropping to 13th. He would pit after a five lap run. With twenty minutes remaining Nicholas would return on the soft tyre. A 1m:37.783 would see him 15th dropping to 16th. But a 1m:35.644 would see him move up to seventh. He would drop to 11th having pitted briefly. He would pit again currently 12th. With the end of the session he would finish in 13th.