F1 Spanish GP: Follow FP1 in Madrid with live timing

Meanwhile, if you're still dizzy after perhaps falling off your chair and hitting your head in surprise at the absence of red flags in this session, here's our full FP1 report.

That's it from us for now. Join us again at 16:00 (local) for FP2!

Oscar Piastri, McLaren

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We also note some mixed opinions in the comments about the track itself. Well, judging by the pictures we're getting through, there only seems to be two possible camera angles. Lets' hope that changes...

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Hamilton now complaining about being held up by a Williams at the final corner.

It's a good thing we're not playing a drinking game here – we'd be under the table by now...

Although we lament the lost art of shaking one's fist at another driver, you have to be careful when gesticulating. Was it Andrea de Cesaris who missed a gearshift at Long Beach and lost the lead after shaking his fist at Raoul Boesel?

"It takes zero effort to be two metres more left" harrumphs Carlos Sainz, who feels Hamilton didn't give him enough room through La Monumental. It looked hairy from the in-car view but Carlos had time to take one hand off the wheel to remonstrate.

We just had a very brief yellow flag notification but the GPS readout shows all the cars on track moving.

Hulkenberg now complaining about Hamilton's on-track etiquette. Perhaps F1 should have a fan vote for the least co-operative driver of the weekend, then they have to do a forfeit?

Our man Fil Cleeren has been trackside, hoping to photograph some floors as crashed cars are craned away. Disappointing, huh? But he's taken some pictures nevertheless.

And he's got to enjoy La Monumental. "An unbelievable corner," quoth he. "Down into a tunnel-like compression surrounded by grandstands. Then a blind crest on exit before hurtling downhill to Turn 13. Camber and radius constantly changing."

Hamilton comes across Ocon in an awkward spot and has to bail out of a push lap.

F1 TV shows Alonso getting the entry to Turn 9 slightly wrong; he turned in too soon and kissed the barrier on the inside.

It's still swooning, of course.

Russell ended up doing 10 laps on those softs, so that will enable the team and Pirelli to get a read on the stress/graining picture on a track which is expected to be punishing on rubber.

Hamilton also coming close to an appointment with the barrier at Turn 17. That's the right-hander just before the short tunnel; we saw Lewis snatch a brake there earlier.

This is starting to remind us of the first grand prix in Azerbaijan, where the F1 drivers watched the utter carnage unfolding in the F2 races and made a collective decision not to make fools of themselves in the same vein.

Charles Leclerc came close to posting his Ferrari into the barrier at Turn 17. Just over 10 minutes left...

Piastri complaining of something rattling around in his cockpit; he pits to have it investigated.

Everybody except Tsunoda and Gasly on track so good luck to anyone hoping to get a quick lap in.

Both McLarens also out on the softs. Oscar Piastri's best is 1m35.280s, Lando Norris has just gone around in 1m35.035s.

Piastri, rear deck carrying a dose of flo-viz paint, then improves to 1m35.148s. That's a second off Russell's benchmark.

Hamilton and Leclerc also now out on softs as the track is getting busier. Stand by for more complaints about traffic.

Boom! Russell strings a lap together – 1m34.145s. That's 0.475s faster than the previous best (although that was set on mediums).

By the way, there's a Gilles Villeneuve biopic coming soon...

Let's have some retro fever, shall we? Gilles Villeneuve winning the last Spanish GP to be held in these parts, Jarama 1981, in a Ferrari which "handled like a barn door" in the words of the late Murray Walker.

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Russell's fastest lap, meanwhile, is 0.109s off the benchmark.

Antonelli does a personal-best final sector but 1m34.683s falls 0.063s short of unseating Hamilton.

Lawson, also out on softs, goes purple in the middle sector and then does a personal best in the third, but it's still only good for 1m35.539s – 0.919s off Hamilton.

Leclerc and Hamilton now back in the pits after completing 14 and 15 laps in total. Leclerc had to get out of a push lap when he found Lewis dawdling in the middle of the road.

Russell goes around in 1m36.081s. That's P6 for now but what's interesting is that he put in quite a few purple mini-sectors in sector 3. 

Antonelli also aborts a lap where he went purple in sector two.

While we were looking at the soft runners, Hamilton popped in a 1m14.620 to go quickest of all on those mediums. All that with a flat spot on his right-front tyre, while his left-front tyre is starting to look uglier than a kebab shop fist fight. 

Looks like Russell aborted his first push lap just before La Monumental.

Antonelli out on softs as well.

Well, if teams are starting to think about qualifying simulations, this session might just be about to get interesting after a relatively cautious first 30 minutes.

Lawson and Russell now out on softs.

Lindblad chuntering over the radio about Hamilton and Antonelli forcing him to check up half way around La Monumental. In-car shot showed how hairy that moment was – like so many elements of this circuit, the sightlines aren't brilliant.

Leclerc goes faster still! 1m34.683s. Only the Ferraris in the 34s yet, by Antonelli (currently in the pits) isn't far off.

F1 TV picks up Lewis Hamilton's in-car camera for his fastest lap so far: 1m34.803s. Intriguingly, the lap was a trifle scruffy in places, particularly his entry to the tunnel section.

TV replays showing Bortoleto riding over the kerbs at the first chicane so that may have been the reason for his pit visit.

Bortoleto did six laps on those hards then popped into the pits for an adjustment and is now back out again.

Thanks to our chums at Getty Images we're getting the first action images through.

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Hamilton shaves off another fraction, 1m35.563s. Like a lot of the drivers at the sharp end he's on a continues stint, seven laps in at the time of writing.