Hamilton Leads Ferrari One-two In Monza Practice

Italian Grand Prix

Venue: Monza Dates: 5-7 September Race start: 14:00 BST connected Sunday

Coverage: Live commentary of believe and qualifying connected BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and Sports Extra 2 pinch title connected BBC Radio 5 Live; unrecorded matter updates connected BBC Sport website and app

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc sewage Ferrari's location title play disconnected to a affirmative commencement by finishing one-two successful first believe astatine nan Italian Grand Prix.

Briton Hamilton, who has a five-place grid punishment for Sunday's race, was 0.169 seconds faster than his team-mate.

Leclerc, who had an incident-packed session, ended it 0.364 seconds clear of Williams driver Carlos Sainz successful 3rd place.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen was 4th fastest, up of Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli and McLaren's Lando Norris.

Norris comes into nan play pinch a 34-point shortage successful nan title to team-mate Oscar Piastri, whose car was driven successful this first convention by McLaren protege Alex Dunne.

The Irishman, who races successful Formula 2 this season, ended nan convention 16th fastest.

McLaren person traced nan motor nonaccomplishment successful past weekend's Dutch Grand Prix that dented Norris' title hopes to a surgery lipid statement - a McLaren rumor alternatively than a problem pinch nan Mercedes engine.

Leclerc's fastest clip was his 3rd effort to do a thigh connected nan soft tyres aft aborting his first 2 runs.

The 2nd incident led to a scare because Leclerc passed a Sauber conscionable aft a reddish emblem was thrown because of gravel connected track, contempt braking arsenic difficult arsenic he could.

He was worried he would person a penalty, but stewards instantly reviewed nan incident and accepted location was thing he could do.

Verstappen was 0.575secs disconnected Hamilton, while nan 2nd Williams of Alex Albon was seventh.

A number of drivers ran wide during nan session, and nan reddish emblem was arsenic a consequence of Racing Bulls' Isack Hadjar moving disconnected way astatine nan Ascari chicane and spraying nan circuit pinch gravel.

Gravel astatine nan 2nd Lesmo, deposited by Norris, besides needed to beryllium cleared.

Other drivers to tally wide and footwear up gravel included Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso, who was ninth fastest down George Russell's Mercedes.

Russell ended nan convention parked connected nan writer beside nan way earlier nan Roggia chicane arsenic a consequence of a powerfulness loss, which near him stuck successful seventh cogwheel pinch nan rear wheels locked.

Hadjar completed nan apical 10.