Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time in first practice at the Las Vegas Formula One Grand Prix on Thursday ahead of Mercedes teammate George Russell.
Seven-times world champion Hamilton had said he felt like walking away from Mercedes after finishing 10th in Sao Paulo, saying it had been "a disaster of a weekend" and the worst the car had ever been.
The Briton topped the timesheets in Las Vegas with a time of one minute, 35.001 seconds, 0.396 seconds ahead of Russell and 0.953 quicker than McLaren's Lando Norris in cool, slippery conditions in the Nevada desert.
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| Lewis Hamilton was fastest in first practice in Las Vegas. |
Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who won last year's race and can claim a fourth successive championship in Saturday night's race, was fifth, 1.037 second adrift of Hamilton's time.
Valtteri Bottas was handed a five-place grid penalty for exceeding the limit of power unit components after starting practice with a new energy store.
The first practice session for the race along the transformed Las Vegas Strip was far more successful than last year when the session lasted a mere eight minutes before Carlos Sainz's Ferrari was badly damaged by a loose drain cover.
- Reuters
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