Summary

  • Lando Norris fastest in Dutch Grand Prix first practice

  • Second practice in Zandvoort from 15:00 BST

  • First F1 race since summer break

  • Oscar Piastri leads Norris by nine points in drivers' championship

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Live Reporting

Gary Rose

  1. Right, we're going to pause for some lunch but we will be back for build up and coverage of second practice from 14:45 BST.

    See you then!

  2. Norris heads Piastri in Dutch GP first practice

    Andrew Benson
    BBC F1 correspondent

    Lando Norris led McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri by 0.292 seconds in first practice at the Dutch Grand Prix as the Formula 1 season restarted after its summer break.

    Norris, trailing the Australian by nine points in the championship with 10 races to go, looked more comfortable than Piastri on their fastest laps with the soft tyre midway through the session.

    The Briton appeared to have a similar advantage on the race-simulation runs McLaren ran in the closing stages.

    Lance Stroll was an impressive third fastest in the Aston Martin, 0.501secs off the pace, the Canadian sneaking ahead of team-mate Fernando Alonso by 0.062secs.

    Stroll set his lap much later in the session than Alonso and the other leading cars, when the track would have been faster.

    Alex Albon's Williams was fifth fastest, ahead of Max Verstappen's Red Bull and Mercedes' George Russell, whose team-mate Kimi Antonelli missed most of the session after sliding off the track at Turn Nine and causing a red flag early on.

    Ferrari appeared to be struggling, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton down in 14th and 15th places. Leclerc complained over the radio at one point that the team were "nowhere".

    Read the full report here.

  3. So McLaren are looking like they are picking up right from where they left off but there was also a strong showing from the Aston Martins.

    The Ferraris, however, were way down the order and will be looking for a big improvement in second practice.

  4. The rest

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  5. Oh what's happened here? Max Verstappen is stuck partially on the gravel and an escape road after doing a practice start.

  6. FP1 - top 10

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  7. chequered flag

    Chequered flag

    Lando Norris finishes fastest in first practice for the Dutch Grand Prix.

  8. George Russell is the latest to end up on the gravel but he is able to keep going to get on to an escape road.

  9. Everyone is out on the track for the final couple of minutes apart from Kimi Antonelli, who has lost a lot of important time on the circuit after ending up in the gravel earlier.

  10. An improvement for Lance Stroll as he does a 1:10.779 to go third quickest.

  11. Both Ferraris are way down the timing sheet with Charles Leclerc 14th and Lewis Hamilton 15th, more than 1.5s off the pace of the McLarens.

    Charles Leclerc with Lando Norris in the backgroundReuters

  12. And the track is busy once more as we head into the final 10 minutes.

  13. Weather on the turn

    Lorraine McKenna
    BBC Sport Journalist in Zandvoort

    Here we go! The temperature has dropped considerably and the dark clouds are moving in.

    WeatherBBC Sport

  14. The track is a bit quiet now as teams move on to the final part of their first practice programme.

  15. ‘Go away!’

    Lorraine McKenna
    BBC Sport Journalist in Zandvoort

    Max Verstappen lionBBC Sport

    I’ve never been snubbed by a lion before but there’s a first time for everything.

    The Super Max lion is waving on the drivers as they pass at Zandvoort and as it’s still quite hot, although there’s a threatening black cloud moving in, he took his head off.

    I thought he’d be up for a little chat for the live but no, he told me to go away and ran off when I approached. So I had to snap him in the wild instead.

    Max Verstappen lionBBC Sport

  16. Rebecca Clancy
    F1 journalist on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    I don't think Lewis Hamilton would ever write off a season. The comments from Hamilton in Hungary, saying that he was "useless", were utterly extraordinary. He did come back this weekend and say that's not how I truly feel. Lewis Hamilton is still in a good place I think. His standards are so high, which is why he is so brutal on himself. I am absolutely fascinated to see how these last 10 races play out. He will not give up on this season and he will not want to get beaten by his team-mate. I would expect to see quite a vast improvement from him over the next few months.

  17. It is a 1:11.218 for Max Verstappen to pop him fifth quickest.

    Meanwhile, there's some dark clouds moving over the circuit as we enter the final 20 minutes of this session.

  18. Well he's not going to be troubling the top two based on his first two sector times.

  19. Max Verstappen is now most definitely on soft tyres and here he comes for a fast lap.

  20. Fernando Alonso has been looking quick in this session and he cuts the gap to the McLarens to half a second as he goes third quickest.