Hungarian GP: Ricciardo leads from Vettel in FP1

Ricciardo jumped to top spot in the final half-hour of the session, using softs to displace the ultrasoft-shod Vettel.

Max Verstappen backed up his pace-setting teammate in third place, less than a tenth behind, as Red Bull eyes one of its best chances to win again this season.

Ricciardo and Verstappen were the first to set a time when they kicked off their early running on medium tyres, but Raikkonen moved into top spot on a 1m18.762s.

That was whittled down by Raikkonen himself, then Valtteri Bottas and Vettel before the halfway point of the session.

Vettel led at that 45-minute mark on a 1m18.218s, with his time set on ultrasofts and Bottas two-tenths slower on softs.

After the mid-session pause, Vettel dipped below the 1m18s-barrier on a 1m17.997s, again using ultrasofts, before championship leader Lewis Hamilton jumped to second with a time less than a tenth slower despite using softs.

Raikkonen then used softs to displace Vettel at the top of the leaderboard on a 1m17.948s, but Vettel – the only frontrunner to lap on ultrasofts – pumped in a 1m17.692s around the hour mark to go fastest again.

Verstappen fell 0.009s short of Vettel, using soft tyres, on his next push lap before Ricciardo jumped both with a 1m17.613s.

That put him 0.079s clear of Vettel, despite a slow first sector, and 0.088s ahead of team-mate Verstappen.

Raikkonen was shuffled to fourth ahead of Hamilton, who endured a scruffy session and missed out on improving in the final half an hour with a lurid slide entering the chicane.

Bottas wound up even further back in the second Mercedes, lapping 0.8s off the pace but also avoiding the ultrasoft compound.

Haas driver Romain Grosjean left it late to steal best of the rest honours, nipping ahead of the Renaults on a 1m18.975s.

Nico Hulkenberg had looked set to earn 'Class B' honours in FP1 but stopped on track exiting Turn 5 an hour into the session.

He still outpaced teammate Carlos Sainz by a tenth, with the second Haas of Kevin Magnussen completing the top 10 – the Dane, along with the two Saubers, trialled a new Ferrari engine, turbocharger and MGU-H.

The first 90-minute session was littered with errors as drivers wrestled with a low-grip track.

As well as Hamilton's troubles, both Sauber drivers endured some difficulties – in particular when Antonio Giovinazzi, driving in place of Charles Leclerc for FP1, locked both front tyres into Turn 1 early on and Marcus Ericsson suffered spins at the final corner and then Turn 4.

Ericsson avoided damage both times but wound up slowest, three seconds off the pace.

Cla	Driver	Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	TAG	30	1'17.613
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	Ferrari	24	1'17.692	0.079
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	TAG	29	1'17.701	0.088
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	Ferrari	23	1'17.948	0.335
5	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Mercedes	28	1'18.036	0.423
6	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	Mercedes	20	1'18.470	0.857
7	Romain Grosjean	Haas	Ferrari	17	1'18.975	1.362
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	Renault	14	1'19.025	1.412
9	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Renault	Renault	32	1'19.128	1.515
10	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	Ferrari	29	1'19.187	1.574
11	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso	Honda	30	1'19.352	1.739
12	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	Renault	24	1'19.690	2.077
13	Brendon Hartley	Toro Rosso	Honda	32	1'19.841	2.228
14	Lance Stroll	Williams	Mercedes	33	1'20.012	2.399
15	Esteban Ocon	Force India	Mercedes	30	1'20.065	2.452
16	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	Renault	28	1'20.151	2.538
17	Sergio Perez	Force India	Mercedes	27	1'20.159	2.546
18	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	Ferrari	31	1'20.293	2.680
19	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	Mercedes	28	1'20.307	2.694
20	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	Ferrari	12	1'20.697	3.084