Fernando Alonso set the pace in Free Practice 1 for the Singapore Grand Prix, the Aston Martin driver leading Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen in the opening one-hour session.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard showed impressive pace around the challenging street circuit, posting a 1m 31.116s<\/a> on Pirelli’s soft tyre, which left him 0.150s clear of Leclerc<\/a> with Verstappen<\/a> one-tenth further back.<\/p>\n Drivers’ Championship leader Oscar Piastri<\/a> was fifth while title rival and McLaren team mate Lando Norris<\/a> was directly behind in sixth, more than half a second adrift of Alonso<\/a>‘s pace.<\/p>\n To view all the best highlights from FP1, click on the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso set the pace in Free Practice 1 for the Singapore Grand Prix, the Aston Martin driver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-471028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115310151912474880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}