Wind and Rain greeted the drivers on their return to the track after F1 summer break and it was Alpine's Pierre gazley who was first to Brave the conditions on a set of blue Ward wet tires how's the track H it's pretty wild with the wind later on the Frenchmen found the gravel at turn one as did Sergio Perez and Ferrari's Carlos signs during the summer break Williams announced the signing of signs for the 2025 season and Beyond putting to rest the speculation that has abounded since Lewis Hamilton made his switch to Ferrari for next year and Alpine have announced Jack Duan will race alongside gazley in 2025 the Australian who competed in Formula 2 last season claiming three race victories on his way to third in the championship will debut at his home race in Melbourne next march Nico hulkenberg went off piece to turn 10 bouncing across the gravel the German locking A Wheel in the slippery conditions and lucky to avoid the barriers moments later he survived to scare into turn n and had another trip beyond the boundaries down at turn one hairy moments for the Audi bound driver Robert schwarzman was in for valy botas at salba the 2021 F2 runner up most recently drove for Ferrari in the final fp1 of last season back in Abu Dhabi one of the three remaining seats for next year is at the Swiss Squad and both vry botas and Joe guu will be hoping to fill that single slot alongside the incoming hulkenberg after half an hour hour of wet running Max aaen finally hit the track on a set of intermediate tires to the Delight of local fans however he soon found himself facing the wrong way petting his red ball at turn 11 after taking a little bit too much curve the Dutchman is set to start his 200 Formula 1 grand prix at his home circuit an event he's dominated since its return to the calendar in 2021 claiming all three victories fastest on the intermediates with 10 minutes to go Lon Norris strapped on a set of slicks and laid down the quickest time of the day so far as the track continued to dry the times tumbled but it was Norris who remained top of the table with the best of anyone 1 minute 12 322 for Sten was 210 back in P2 then came Hamilton Signs and George Russell then Alex Alin was an impressive P6 ahead of piastri hulkenberg Magnuson and Joe Lance troll was the leading Aston Martin in P1 from Perez theair Coda Alonzo schwarzman Logan Sergeant estan oon Dan Ricardo and Pierre gazley [Music]