Max aaen finished the first practice session of the Belgian Grand Prix top of the time sheets but that news was tempered for the championship leader by confirmation that Red Bull have fitted a new engine in his rb20 that means he'll be hit with a 10 Place grid penalty for Sunday's race since he's now gone over his allocation of four engines for the season that said his quick face will be encouraging for the Dutchman especially as he's won at Spar from down the order in the past taking Victory from P6 last year and from all the way down in 14th in 202 two with a St and set for that penalty Red Bull will need Sergio Perez to take the fight to the other Front Runners at the sharp end of the grid the Mexican was finding it difficult to dial himself into the car early in the session I'm really strugling to to know what the GU is doing on ENT is that mainly L speed uh all speed low speed and medium I don't have the feeling of what's going on but ended up p7 after the first runs of the weekend at the other end of the order estan okom was unable to even set up lap time after Alpine hit trouble the Frenchman who announced on Thursday that he's joining H next season made it out onto the spa track in the first few minutes of the session but was ordered back to the pits almost immediately box the car please estan box the car well I stopped no box the car please box the car now Alpine who are running a special Deadpool and Wolverine Livery this weekend reported later that a suspected water leak was to blame but they were unable to complete a Hollywood comeback and get the car fixed in time to get Aon back out in the session Oscar piastri comes into this race the last before F1 summer break Riding High after taking his first Grand Prix Victory last time out in Hungary and the Australian was looking rapid again around the historic Spar Frank Trump circuit in fp1 he was second quickest for McLaren half a second down on staffin Benchmark with teammate Lando Norris down in p8 perhaps the surprise of the session was Alex Alin in P3 on the lead of board for Williams The Grove team do tend to go well around this track but it's still a fine effort for the Ty racer who was directly ahead of George Russell and leis Hamilton in the Mercedes cars charlot Clair was in P6 behind that Trio but was left a little frustrated by some ill-timed radio calls from his engineer S1 turn8 what did you say R please don't I didn't get what you said but do speaking first STS so for STA and finished top of the time sheets with piastri half a second behind in P2 album was Nex to Williams followed by the Mercedes pair of Russell and Hamilton then it was lir Perez and Norris with Carlos SS and L stroll rounding out the top 10 Pier gazley was 11th for Alpine ahead of Fernando Alonso in the second ason Martin and Daniel Ricardo who had an early spin out of turn one and just avoided the pit war vter botas with p14 followed by Logan Sergeant in the second Williams Yuki sonoda will start from the back of the grid this weekend after taking a host of new power unit parts and was 16th in fp1 with the H pair Nico hulkenberg and Kevin Magnuson P 17 and 18 ahead of Joe guu with estan o on last with no time on the board