June 17, 2016 – Formula 1 landed in Baku for the first time ever this week and it was Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton who set the pace in an incident-filled first free practice session that saw Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo crash and bring out the red flags.
| Pos | Driver | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1m46.435s | – | 23 |
| 2 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1m46.812s | 0.377s | 32 |
| 3 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams/Mercedes | 1m47.096s | 0.661s | 34 |
| 4 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren/Honda | 1m47.989s | 1.554s | 21 |
| 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1m48.627s | 2.192s | 26 |
| 6 | Sergio Perez | Force India/Mercedes | 1m48.922s | 2.487s | 17 |
| 7 | Jenson Button | McLaren/Honda | 1m49.019s | 2.584s | 21 |
| 8 | Felipe Massa | Williams/Mercedes | 1m49.125s | 2.690s | 22 |
| 9 | Carlos Sainz | Toro Rosso/Ferrari | 1m49.267s | 2.832s | 16 |
| 10 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India/Mercedes | 1m49.301s | 2.866s | 27 |
| 11 | Romain Grosjean | Haas/Ferrari | 1m49.611s | 3.176s | 20 |
| 12 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 1m49.635s | 3.200s | 16 |
| 13 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull/Renault | 1m49.778s | 3.343s | 17 |
| 14 | Esteban Gutierrez | Haas/Ferrari | 1m50.167s | 3.732s | 25 |
| 15 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber/Ferrari | 1m50.473s | 4.038s | 18 |
| 16 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull/Renault | 1m50.485s | 4.050s | 7 |
| 17 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso/Ferrari | 1m50.551s | 4.116s | 19 |
| 18 | Jolyon Palmer | Renault | 1m50.910s | 4.475s | 25 |
| 19 | Kevin Magnussen | Renault | 1m50.939s | 4.504s | 27 |
| 20 | Pascal Wehrlein | Manor/Mercedes | 1m51.219s | 4.784s | 24 |
| 21 | Felipe Nasr | Sauber/Ferrari | 1m51.771s | 5.336s | 11 |
| 22 | Rio Haryanto | Manor/Mercedes | 1m51.925s | 5.490s | 28 |
