Team Summary:
For the opening Friday practice session the Williams Racing Team would replace Russell with reserve driver Nissany. With the start of the hour long session there would be a queue of cars waiting to come out with Vettel out first followed by the first of the Williams. More cars would come out including the second Williams as times were seen. A 1m:37.374 would see Leclerc quickest on the medium followed by Gasly and Giovinazzi. But Perez would go quickest only to see Norris and then Sainz move ahead Sainz with a 1m:36.745. Verstappen would set a 1m:35.639 to be quickest ahead of Hamilton and Sainz.

Gasly was now seventh now ahead of Leclerc and times rapidly changed. Verstappen would drop to third behind Norris and Sainz quickest. But a 1m:34.139 would see Verstappen move back to the top. Hamilton would return to second ahead of Sainz, Perez, Norris, Gasly, Ricciardo, Leclerc, Raikkonen and Tsunoda tenth. Vettel would crash going backwards into the barrier but he was able to recover and slowly make it bad to his pit. Ocon and Alonso were now eighth and tenth with Tsunoda ninth. Alonso would improve to be fifth behind Hamilton who was now fourth. But Hamilton would set a 1m:33.783 to be quickest running on the soft tyre. The Ferrari's were now 9th and 11th.

Mazepin on the soft would move in to 17th to be ahead of both Williams. Bottas was now quickest with a 1m:33.448. Hamilton was now second followed by Verstappen, Perez, Alonso, Ricciardo, Ocon, Norris, Sainz, and Tsunoda tenth. After soft tyre runs the Williams pair were 15th and 20th. The top ten was now Bottas, Hamilton, Verstappen, Perez, Ricciardo, Tsunoda, Leclerc, Alonso, Giovinazzi and Raikkonen with fifteen minutes remaining in the session. Norris would improve to be sixth ahead of team-mate Ricciardo. Gasly would imprve to be sixth behind Alonso. Both Williams drivers were running currently in 17th and 20th. The session would come to a close with Bottas remaining fastest from Hamilton, Verstappen, Perez, Ocon, Ricciardo, Alonso, Gasly, Norris, and Tsunoda tenth.

With the end of the session the Williams racing Team would see their drivers finish in 17th and 20th with Nicholas leading not unexpectedly Roy. As for the prospects for the rest of the weekend it will not be until the next Friday practice session with Russell's return that a true judge will be able to be made.

Roy Nissany:
Roy would leave the pit lane very early looking forward to maximising his track time running on the hard tyre. He would pit after a single lap. His car had been running aero rakes. With ten minutes of the session he would return this time on the soft tyre. He would set 1m:40.713 to be 17th. He would improve with a 1m:37.881 but remained 19th. He would pit after a six lap run and in the pits drops to be slowest. With twelve minutes remaining Roy would return this time on the hard tyre. Roy would complete seven laps on the hard tyre as he pitted with the end of the session.

Nicholas Latifi:
Nicholas would come out for his first run using the medium tyre. He would set a 1m:38.349 to be third but would drop to 8th. This would become tenth the 12th. A 1m:36.873 would see Nicholas improve to be eighth behind Hamilton. This would become 12th. He would improve with a 1m:36.829 to be 13th but he would drop to 15th. Nicholas would pit after a seven lap run dropping to 16th. With just over thirty minutes remaining Nicholas would return this time running on the soft tyre. He was currently 18th. But an improved lap of 1m:35.612 to be 11th. This would become 15th as he continued his soft tyre run. Nicholas would pit after a five lap run now 16th. Ten minutes remaining and Nicholas would return again on the soft tyre. He would drop to 17th as the session came to a close pitting after a seven lap run on the soft tyre.