George Russell led an ominous Mercedes one-two in the sole practice session for the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.
The world championship leader produced a lap-time of 1:32.741 to top the times ahead of team-mate Kimi Antonelli by 0.120s, as the Mercedes duo were over 0.5s faster than the next-best car.
This was Lando Norris of McLaren, leading a McLaren-McLaren-Ferrari-Ferrari fight, with Lewis Hamilton in sixth, off the back of the gaggle.
However, Hamilton's time was set on four-lap old soft tyres, compared to those ahead on first lap runs.
Max Verstappen was only eighth for Red Bull.
Check out the results from Free Practice in China below!
Result Free practice 1 - Chinese
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