Lewis Hamilton set the pace in Friday’s first practice for the British GP while Romain Grosjean played with his DRS through the new zone – and crashed.

The session began with a brief moment of concern for Valtteri Bottas as he was unable to leave the pits on his first attempt. The Finn was pushed back into the Mercedes garage but a few minutes later was out on track and laying down the laps.

It was Max Verstappen who held down P1 through the early part of the session, a 1:29.469 for the Dutchman, who did take Turn 1 flat-out and with DRS open.

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