00:00First practice in Austria, and there were a few fresh faces taking part in the first session of the weekend.
00:05AF2 drivers Alex Dunn and Dino Beganovic took the places of Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc, respectively.
00:11Formula 2 championship leader Dunn is the first driver born in the Republic of Ireland to take part in an official session since 1982,
00:19when Derek Daly and Tommy Byrne took to the track.
00:21The Irish driver dealing with Formula 1's infamous frantic radio from the off.
00:25We can go purple, C3 position 6 for free speed tonight, but Cynodia's run harder.
00:32I can hear like three people on the radio at once then.
00:35Copy.
00:36Dunn set an impressive time, it was less than a tenth of a second slower than his teammate Oscar Piastri.
00:42The Irishman closing the session in P4.
00:45I want to say a massive thank you.
00:47I think a little boy's three came through, this is definitely the best day of my life, so thank you everyone for letting me do this.
00:52Thanks Lando for trusting me with this car.
00:54Down at Ferrari is three times F2 podium finisher Paganovic in for Leclerc, the Sweden, for his second practice session of the season, having also hit the track in Bahrain.
01:06And due to unforeseen circumstances, Max Verstappen's engineer, Gian Piero Lambiezi, will not be in Austria.
01:11The Dutchman will instead hear the voice of long-time F1 race engineer Simon Rennie this weekend.
01:18And the current world champion had a miscommunication of his own in the opening minutes of FP1.
01:23A bit of a gesticulation as well.
01:25Is it a thumbs up?
01:26Is it a thumbs up?
01:27Verstappen's teammate Yuki Tsunoda went off-piste at the same turn moments later.
01:32Yeah, the break is very poor.
01:34Understood, copy.
01:35Big double front lock-up as soon as he hit the brakes there.
01:39A few bumps in towards turn three, difficult uphill braking zone, and there we go, massive puff of smoke off both the front right and front left.
01:47Fresh from his maiden Formula One podium in Canada and finishing his exams, Andrea Kimmi Antonelli experienced the Red Bull ring for the first time as an F1 driver.
01:56And the Italian was struggling for grip in his Mercedes.
02:00I'm struggling with front locking.
02:02Copy.
02:03Yeah, we can see something that we can sort for that.
02:07And it was teammate George Russell who set the fastest lap of the session, a one-minute five, 5-4-2.
02:14It's less than a tenth of a second faster than Red Bull ring maestro Verstappen in P2.
02:19Fresh from his first points finishes of 2025, Fernando Alonso's Austria weekend started with a spin.
02:25The Spaniard using all of his experience to keep the car out of the barriers.
02:29Okay, that was the worst outlaw we can do.
02:32Good to do it in F1.
02:33Okay, copy.
02:34So no tyre temps for Alonso.
02:37And you can see how close that barrier is as well on the outside.
02:41He has done well to spin it and keep it within the confines of the circuit, really.
02:45There is not a lot of margin.
02:47The Aston Martin driver also getting his first taste of side-by-side action.
02:52Racing Pierre Gasly down to turn three as the session came to a close.
02:57Elsewhere, both Haas cars crossed the limits at turn one.
03:00Oli Behrmann locking a front left but continuing without problem.
03:03Behrmann just opening up the corner for turn one, trying to widen the racing line and finding a lack of grip.
03:09And he's another one struggling on the brakes.
03:10Before Estevan Ocon did the same thing, choosing to use the escape road at turn one.
03:15Alex Albon also went beyond the boundaries on the exit of turn nine.
03:19The Williams driver recovering to set the seventh fastest time in the session.
03:23Russell leads the way from Verstappen, Piastri and Dunn.
03:26P5 for Pierre Gasly from Gabriel Bortoletto.
03:29Albon, Sainz, Hamilton and Hadjar.
03:32Eleventh for Antonelli, ahead of Hülkenberg, Stroll, Alonso, Lawson and Colopinto.
03:37Tsunoda was 17th, ahead of Beganovic, Ocon and Behrmann.
