2025 Hungarian Grand Prix – Free Practice 1 F1 results (Hungaroring)

Thomas Maher 01 Aug 2025 1:34 PM

Isack Hadjar, Racing Bulls, 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix.

Here are the complete F1 results from the first practice session at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix.

The first practice session at the Hungaroring in Budapest has concluded, with the times topped by…

It was a McLaren 1-2 in the first practice session ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, with Lando Norris edging out Oscar Piastri for top spot.

Lando Norris leads McLaren 1-2 in Hungary

Ahead of the first practice session, Aston Martin announced that a muscle issue would sideline Fernando Alonso for the hours’ track time, in a bid to reduce his muscular stress before the more important sessions of the remainder of the weekend.

Slotting in Felipe Drugovich into his AMR25 in his stead, the rookie driver was joined as a session-only substitute by Paul Aron as the Estonian jumped into Nico Hulkenberg’s Sauber.

However, while Aron’s run was to tick off one of Sauber’s rookie driver outings – of which each team is mandated to run four of during a season – Drugovich’s appearance did not count towards Aston Martin’s, due to him being a substitute rather than it being an earmarked rookie driver outing.

Both finished in the bottom five, with Drugovich in 15th, while a technical problem curtailed Aron’s running to the first half of the session before his car conked out at the side of the track.

Up front, Lando Norris set the pace from early on, laying down an early benchmark and ending with a laptime of 1:16.052.

This was just 0.019 clear of championship leader Oscar Piastri, with the two McLaren drivers showing a clean pair of heels to third-placed Charles Leclerc in a rearrangement of the podium finishers from last weekend’s race at Spa.

Isack Hadjar was a standout performer as he placed fourth for Racing Bulls, a further four-tenths of a second back from Leclerc, with Lewis Hamilton in fifth – the Ferrari man being one of several to lock up heavily into Turn 1 and flatspot his tyres.

With Haas’ Oliver Bearman in sixth, the two Mercedes drivers were up next as Kimi Antonelli put in a good showing to finish ahead of George Russell, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was in a lowly (by his usual standards) ninth place.

Rounding out the top 10 was Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll.