It was a busy first practice session for F1's 2022 Spanish Grand Prix with al🃏l teams except Haas ꦰbringing new upgrades to this weekend's race.

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

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

Reigning F1 champion Max Verstappen was third-fas♐test after encountering traffic in the final secജtor on his best effort.

The Dutchman was 0.3s do🦹wn but will be confident going into the♏ second session given his lap was disrupted.

Behind the usual top three was George Russell in the Mercedes, just ൩0.6s down on Leclerc's top time.

Fernando Alonso was a strong fifth in front of his home crowd, ahead of former McLaren t❀eammate Lewis H𒊎amilton.

Hamilton was a few tenths shy of Russell but encountered traffic in ๊the form of Alonso on hi🌠s best effort.

Lando🔯 Norris, 🌃Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda 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 driver on two occasions in 2022.

Juri🍰 Vips was in the Red Bull in pla꧒ce of Sergio Perez - he was 20th overall.