Fernando Alonso beat the Ferraris, McLarens and Max Verstappen’s Red Bull to set the pace for Aston Martin in first practice for F1’s 2025 Singapore Grand Prix, as Alex Albon’s Williams suffered a rear brake fire.

Aston Martin ran a different tyre strategy to the rest of the field, putting Alonso and Lance Stroll on the medium (C4) compound for the initial running, as the others did their early confidence-building on the hard (C3).

All save for Albon, who returned quickly to the pits with a rear brake fire that Williams struggled to extinguish.