Two weeks on from his dramatic, race-ending collision with title rival Lewis Hamilton at the Brit𒁏ish GP, the Red Bull driver set the pace in first practice on the soft tyres, lapping the Hungaroring in 1m17.555s.

Verstappen’s time put him just 0.061s clear of Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas at the end of FP1, while Hamilton was third, 0.167s adrift of his main championship rival who holds an eight point advantage heading into the last race beꦚfore F1’s summer break.

The 60-minute practice session was interrupted when AlphaTauri rookie Tsunoda lost control of his car and spun rearwards ꦐinto the barriers at Turn 4, causing a brief suspension.

Carlos Sainz wa✅s half a second down on Verstappen’s benchmark as he finished fourth-fastest for Ferrari, ahead of AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly.

A day after celebrating his 40th birthd♊ay, 🍬two-time world champion Fernando Alonso took sixth for Alpine, having outpaced the second Ferrari of Charles Leclerc by just 0.006s.

Sergio Perez was nearly a full second slower than his Red Bull teammate in eighth, while Lando Norris and Lance Stroll compl🐓eted the rest of the top-10 for McLaren and Aston Martin respectivel💖y.

Alpine’s Esteban Ocon missed out on a spot in the top 10 by just 0.010s as Tsun𝐆oda’🅘s session-ending crash left him 12th in the FP1 order.

Furth🍬er down the timesheets, Rober𝄹t Kubica finished 18th in his third FP1 outing of the season for Alfa Romeo.

The Pole, who deputised f🐭or Kimi Raikkonen on Friday morning, ended up faster than Nikita Mazepin’s Haas and Antonio G🍬iovinazzi in the other Alfa Romeo.

Full opening practice results at the 2021 F1 Hungarian Grand Prix.