F1 practice LIVE: Spanish Grand Prix 2024 times, results and commentary from Barcelona (2024)

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Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton fastest in Spanish Grand Prix second practice
McLaren's Lando Norris was fastest in first practice
Max Verstappen leads drivers' championship by 56 points from Charles Leclerc

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Tasnim Chowdhury

Back on Saturday for FP3 and qualifying from 11:00 BSTpublished at 17:16 21 June
17:16 21 June
A great day for Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton who went fastest in first and second practice.
Can they replicate the performance on Saturday's quanifying session? We'll find out tomorrow.
That's Friday's session wrapped up in Barcelona. Thank you for joining us!
Enjoy the rest of your Friday and join us again tomorrow to follow along third practice and qualifying from 11:00 BST.
Take care!
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Hamilton sets pace in Spanish Grand Prix practicepublished at 17:13 21 June
17:13 21 June
Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent
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Lewis Hamilton set the pace in Friday practice at the Spanish Grand Prix as Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull looked closely matched.
The seven-time champion was just 0.022 seconds quicker than Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, with McLaren’s Lando Norris third just 0.055secs off the pace.
However, the risks of making assumptions about competitive form from Friday practice were underlined by Pierre Gasly’s Alpine setting fourth-fastest time.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, complaining of a lack of front grip, was fifth ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Mercedes’ George Russell.
In the first session, Norris set the pace from Verstappen.
Read Andrew's full report here
F1 Q&A: Send us your questionspublished at 17:10 21 June
17:10 21 June
If there is a question you would like to ask BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson about this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix, or anything related to Formula 1 in general, then the Q&A form is open.
Have a read of this week's column here
And then send us your questions, at any time, here
And the restpublished at 17:09 21 June
17:09 21 June
11. Kevin Magnussen (Haas)
12. Nico Hulkenberg (Haas)
13. Sergio Perez (Red Bull)
14. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)
15. Yuki Tsunonda (RB)
16. Daniel Ricciardo (RB)
17. Zhou Guanyu (Sauber)
18. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)
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19. Alex Albon (Williams)
20. Logan Sargeant (Williams)
Top 10published at 17:07 21 June
17:07 21 June
1. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) - 1:13.264
2. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) +0.002
3. Lando Norris (McLaren) +0.055
4. Pierre Gasly (Alpine) +0.179
5. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) +0.240
6. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) +0.333
7. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) +0.358
8. Goerge Russell (Mercedes) +0.458
9. Esteban Ocon (Alpine) +0.502
10. Valtteri Bottas (Sauber) +0.660
Fans in Barcelonapublished at 17:03 21 June
17:03 21 June
The fans have been out in sunny Barcelona, with handmade signs and cardboard cut-outs of the drivers.
I am loving some of the signs I've seen today.
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Chequered flagpublished at 17:01 21 June
17:01 21 June
Back in the garage everyone, second practice is over!
Lewis Hamilton was the fastest in the Mercedes, followed by Ferrari's Carlos Sain and McLaren's Lando Norris to make the top three.
Torchbearer Leclercpublished at 16:59 21 June
16:59 21 June
Earlier this week, Ferrari's Charles Leclerc joined Monegasque royalty as the Olympic torch made it's way to the principality of Monaco before the Paris 2024 games.
He was chosen as a torchbearer to take the Olympic flame around the streets of Monaco.
"It's a huge honour for me," he said.
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Postpublished at 16:58 21 June
16:58 21 June
Zhou Guanyu's session is over, he's out of the car and the engineers are hard at work.
Charles Leclerc is back out on track, he's in sixth spot on the soft tyres. The Monagasque has also been busy this week too...
Postpublished at 16:56 21 June
16:56 21 June
Valtteri Bottas is in 10th spot on the hard tyres.
He's been busy before the Spanish Grand Prix weekend.
The Finn swapped out four wheels for two and won his first gravel cycling race at the FNLD GRVL 114km course.
Multi-talented, that.
Postpublished at 16:54 21 June
16:54 21 June
Lewis Hamilton has made himself comfy at the top spot.
Carlos Sainz is in second, Lando Norris in third, Gasly in fourth, all on the soft tyres.
Verstappen is fifth but he's just been in the garage to put on new soft tyres.
Zhou Guanyu has taken a trip back to the Sauber garage.
Postpublished at 16:53 21 June
16:53 21 June
Marc Priestley
Former F1 mechanic on BBC Radio 5 Live
Although Sergio Perez has been stuck in the garage with some sort of technical issue, he has finally gone out now with a soft-tyre run, but it's only been good enough for 13th, eight-tenths off the time Lewis Hamilton's been able to do on the same tyre.
If that's a genuine measure of Perez's single-lap pace, that's not good enough.
Postpublished at 16:50 21 June
16:50 21 June
The Haas look like they're in good stead for the weekend.
Kevin Magnussen sits in 11th, on the soft tyres, while Nico Hulkenberg is back in his seat after he let Ollie Bearman borrow it for first practice.
Hulkenberg is in P12 on the hard tyres.
Postpublished at 16:46 21 June
16:46 21 June
There's just under 15 minutes to go.
Both Mercedes drivers are back out on new sets of the red soft tyres.
Charles Leclerc is in the Ferrari garage as the engineers work on the front of the car.
Verstappen's first race winpublished at 16:44 21 June
16:44 21 June
He's gone on to win 60 times and Max Verstappen secured his first F1 victory on his Red Bull debut atthe 2016 Spanish Grand Prix.
At 18 years old, he became the youngest ever F1 winner.
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Postpublished at 16:43 21 June
16:43 21 June
Max Verstappen is the only driver in the top 10 on the hard compound, everyone else is on the soft.
Verstappen is currently fifth while his team-mate Sergio Perez is back in the Red Bull garage.
Lewis Hamilton holds on in the P1 spot.
Problem for Perez?published at 16:40 21 June
16:40 21 June
Harry Benjamin
BBC F1 Commentator
Sergio Perez had been in the pits for a little while, has only done eight laps and is down in 20th. He hasn't been out on the soft compound of tyre, so I wonder if there is a little bit of an issue going on down in the Mexican's side of the garage...
Allez les bleuspublished at 16:38 21 June
16:38 21 June
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It's not all about Spanish Grand Prix practice today. There is another sporting event going on elsewhere in Europe and Alpine's Pierre Gasly showed he is right behind the France football team before they play the Netherlands in Euro 2024 later tonight.
Postpublished at 16:37 21 June
16:37 21 June
Pierre Gasly has moved up to fourth place on the soft tyres.
Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris are back out on track on new sets of the soft compound too.
Luckily for Gasly, practice two doesn't clash with a Euro 2024 game I'm sure he wouldn't want to miss.
Postpublished at 16:34 21 June
16:34 21 June
Zhou Guanyu isn't too happy. He felt the RB of Yuki Tsunoda was blocking him in the final sector.
"Not surprised" was his response after being told it was Tsunoda.