F1 Brazil GP commentary and updates – Norris tops FP1 from Piastri, Tsunoda clips wall | Live text

THAT’S IT FROM FP1 Don’t forget to join us again at 15:30 local for Sprint qualifying. So a topsy-turvy session, with some teams definitely showing us how much juice they’ve got.  But McLaren definitively the fastest so far, with over half a second in hand over the best of the rest. Lando Norris, McLaren Photo by: Mark Thompson – Getty Images Also important to note that neither Ferrari ran the medium or soft tyres – they completed the session on the same set of hards. So Hulkenberg closes out the session P3, ahead of Alonso and Bortoleto. Now Lando Norris crosses the line and usurps his team-mate to the tune of 0.023s! This on a set of mediums with eight laps under their (radial) belts. And a spin for Lewis Hamilton there – a double gyration, in fact – at Mergulho. He reports the car bottomed out before the spin. Meanwhile Piastri goes even faster in the first sector – but a so-so second sector and he takes the chequered flag without improving. So as the clock runs down, don’t expect any fireworks in terms of laptime from the defending world champion. Verstappen did no laps at all on the
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