Hamilton fastest in rain-interrupted session, Raikkonen second
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Raikkonen fastest in first practice, Massa crashes heavily
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Felipe Massa may be feeling better, but he's just beached his Williams.
"I just lost the car on the kerb," he reports.
Massa, who is OK, went straight off and into the barrier. That's the end of his session.
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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer at Spa-Francorchamps
Image source, Getty ImagesFelipe Massa is back in the Williams this weekend after missing the Hungarian Grand Prix because he was feeling dizzy.
“I feel ready to get back in the car,” the Brazilian said. “I had a… I was feeling a little bit dizzy on that weekend. Vertigo is the name of what I had and unfortunately it’s the first time I had this. It was a little bit of a strange feeling and unfortunately it happens in a race weekend and keeps me out of the car but I feel good now, ready to get back to the second part of the season and really hopeful we can do good races.”
Massa, who is only racing this year because Nico Rosberg announced his retirement at the end of 2016 and Mercedes came in for Valtteri Bottas, said he was open to staying in F1 next season.
"I don’t see the point not to carry on,” he said. “So if I have an opportunity to stay in the position I believe is correct for me to stay, yes I believe maybe I can stay for another season. Otherwise not. I’m quite relaxed about my future in one way or the other, to be honest. So I think maybe just thinking about the races and we’ll see what happens.”
We've just had a spell of silence on the track but Esteban Ocon and Felipe Massa are both out now, both on super-softs.
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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer at Spa-Francorchamps
Alonso's first lap with the new Honda Phase 3.5 update. Immediate problem. Context? This from yesterday
Jennie Gow
BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter
Lewis Hamilton is in a very relaxed mood, he is out of the car and patting his mechanics on the back. Actually he has just gone over to Valtteri Bottas' side of the garage and is shaking hands with all of his mechanics. It is quite interesting to watch the psychology of Lewis Hamilton.
Image source, ReutersLewis Hamilton has done an installation lap with the halo on his Mercedes but he's back in the garage having that removed now.
Image source, Getty ImagesKayleigh: ALREADY?! We're only 5 mins in.
"OK Fernando, we can't fix it on the track but we'd like to fix it in the garage," Fernando Alonso is told.
Or, in other words, pleaaaaase bring the car back Fernando. Pretty please.
"I won't arrive to the pits if you don't solve the problem," Fernando Alonso adds as he cruises around the circuit.
Is that a protest by Alonso? Or does he genuinely think he can't make it back.
"I have no power," reports Fernando Alonso.
Not a good start to the day for the Spaniard, whose McLaren is housing an upgraded engine for this weekend.
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And away we go!
The pitlane opens and Stoffel Vandoorne is the first to head out onto the circuit.
Jennie Gow
BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter
Interested to see the Halo out on track here at Spa this morning. I understand 3 cars will be running it including Lewis Hamilton.
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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer at Spa-Francorchamps
Image source, Getty ImagesWhat has been going on with Hamilton at the races such as Russia, Monaco, Austria and Hungary where things have not quite come together for him? Does he know why he has been struggling? “I think so, yeah, and that is what we are tackling on an engineering perspective and how we tackle the pitfalls ahead of us and how we manoeuvre around them. The places we decide to set the car up in, for example.
“The way our car is, you apply a driving style and it just doesn't like it. You have to try loads of different techniques and figure out, ‘Oh that works, the car works in that area,’ and really grab on to it. That’s how it was in Hungary. It didn't feel that great initially in the race, had to change a bunch of settings, change my lines, and eventually the car like this spot and can really start to lean on it. It is almost like being on a roundabout and so many different tun-offs and some raids are shorter than others but the ones that are the longest if you are lucky enough to find it that’s where you can stretch the wings off the car. I live that discovery but it is much nicer when you can do it earlier in the weekend.”
No changes to the drivers line-up for first practice, with the usual 20 taking part.
The Halo is getting a run out on some of the cars today.
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Image source, Getty ImagesMax Verstappen has a special lid for this weekend's race. Looking swish.