It was a busy first practice session for F1's 2022 Spanish Grand Pr🎉ix with all teams except Haas bringing new upgrades to this we🔯ekend's race.

Barcelona is a mixture of low, medium and high-speed corners so it gives teams the necessary data to determine whether their new parts are 𒁃working.

Charles Leclerc set the pace for Ferrari with a run on the softs, beating teammate Carlos ඣSainz by less than a tenth of a second.

Reigning F1 champion Max Verstappen was third-fastest after encountering traffic ཧin🌊 the final sector on his best effort.

The Dutchman was 0.3s down but will be confident going i💞nto the second session given his lap was disrupted.

Behind the usual top three was George Russell in the Mercedes, just 0.6s down on Leclerc's 𒐪top time.

Fernando Alonso was a strong fifth in front of his home cro🌺wd, ahead of former McLaren teammateꦺ Lewis Hamilton.

Hamilt𝐆on was a few tenths shy of Russell but encountered traffic in the form of Alon🎐so on his best effort.

Lando Norris, Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsu⭕noda rounded 🉐out the top 10.

Nyck de Vries was 18th on his first outing for Williams as teams are all required to run a rookie ജdriver on two occasions in 2022.

Juri Vips was in the R♐ed Bull in place of Sergio Perez - he was 20th overall.