Lewis Hamilton shaded Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg by just 0.183s as the Silver Arrows took control of the first practice session at the Hungaroring on Friday morning.

Teams largely focused on setting their cars up to optimise balance and performance without FRIC suspension systems, the loss of which is widely anticipated to have more of an effect here than it did at Hockenheim last weekend.

Mercedes’ dominance was underlined by the fact that Hamilton, who lapped in 1m 25.814s to Rosberg’s 1m 25.997s, finished more than a second clear of the rest of the field – with one exception as Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen set the third fastest time, a 1m 26.421s.