First Free F1 Practice Results 2020 Abu Dhabi GP

First Free F1 Practice Results Abu Dhabi F1 GP (FP1)
11 December 2020 by    2 min read

F1 Race Event: Abu Dhabi F1 GP
Race Track: Yas Marina Circuit

First Free F1 Practice Results Abu Dhabi F1 GP (FP1)

Yas Marina Circuit - Abu Dhabi

Weather: dry  25.5°C
Tarmac: dry  39.6°C
Humidity : 34.8%
Wind : 3.2 m/s SW
Pressure: 1017.6 bar

The last first practice of the 2020 season was almost back to normal in Abu Dhabi. Lewis Hamilton recovered from COVID-19 and was back behind the wheel of the Mercedes W11 in which he already won the 2020 Drivers title.

Mick Schumacher at last made his debut in Formula 1. Earlier this season he should have made his debut behind the wheel of an Alfa Romeo during the Eifel GP, but the weather circumstances made that impossible. Today he drove the Haas car of Kevin Magnussen.

Pietro Fittipaldi was still driving the Haas of Romain Grosjean who's still recovering from his crash during the first lap of the Bahrain GP. Robert Kubica was behind the wheel of the Alfa Romeo that normally is driven by Antonio Giovinazzi.

Early in the session Hamilton had to go back to the pits because the front brakes of the Mercedes showed very high temperatures which took over 30 minutes. Daniel Ricciardo had a technical problem and had to park and shut down his Renault halfway the circuit.

In the first half hour Max Verstappen topped the timesheet using the hard compound (C3). The Dutchman clocked a 1:39.113. That was before Valtteri Bottas fitted the soft (C5) tyres on the Mercedes to beat that time by 1.701s.

Later on Verstappen also did some laps on the soft tyres and topped the leaderbord again.

1:36.957 min was the fastest lap time of last years FP1 in Abu Dhabi and was set by Valtteri Bottas in the Mercedes.

FP1 Times Table 2020 Abu Dhabi GP

Pos No Driver Team Lap Time 1st Gap Laps Tyres
1 33 Max Verstappen Red Bull 1:37.378 25 S (C5)
2 77 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 1:37.412 +0.034s 31 S (C5)
3 31 Esteban Ocon Renault 1:38.515 +1.137s 33 S (C5)
4 23 Alex Albon Red Bull 1:38.547 +1.169s 24 S (C5)
5 44 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:38.744 +1.366s 23 H (C3)
6 18 Lance Stroll Racing Point 1:38.831 +1.453s 24 S (C5)
7 11 Sergio Pérez Racing Point 1:38.956 +1.578s 24 S (C5)
8 26 Daniil Kvyat AlphaTauri 1:39.150 +1.772s 26 M (C4)
9 10 Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 1:39.160 +1.782s 29 M (C4)
10 7 Kimi Räikkönen Alfa Romeo 1:39.199 +1.821s 21 S (C5)
11 55 Carlos Sainz McLaren 1:39.330 +1.952s 26 S (C5)
12 16 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:39.344 +1.966s 24 H (C3)
13 4 Lando Norris McLaren 1:39.352 +1.974s 27 S (C5)
14 5 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:39.670 +2.292s 18 M (C4)
15 88 Robert Kubica Alfa Romeo 1:39.905 +2.527s 19 S (C5)
16 63 George Russell Williams 1:40.446 +3.068s 23 M (C4)
17 6 Nicholas Latifi Williams 1:41.063 +3.685s 26 S (C5)
18 50 Mick Schumacher Haas 1:41.235 +3.857s 22 S (C5)
19 51 Pietro Fittipaldi Haas 1:44.069 +6.691s 23 S (C5)
20 3 Daniel Ricciardo Renault no time - 3 H (C3)

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