Hamilton leads five different teams in close second practice · F1 · RaceFans

June 21, 2024

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Lewis Hamilton was quickest of all within the second observe session for the Spanish Grand Prix forward of Carlos Sainz Jnr.

The Mercedes driver set the perfect time of the day with a 1’13.264 on smooth tyres, lower than a tenth of a second faster than each Sainz and third-placed Lando Norris.

Situations have been barely cooler than that they had been for the opening hour of working for the day, with ambient temperatures sitting at 24C for the session. Naturally, with a number of groups having introduced many new elements for his or her automobiles for this weekend, there was loads of early working as drivers tried to collect invaluable information.

George Russell set the early tempo with a 1’14.089, a tenth of a second sooner than Norris within the McLaren, who had been quickest of all within the first session. As soon as groups started switching onto the smooth compound, Carlos Sainz Jnr jumped to the highest of the instances with a 1’13.286, earlier than Hamilton beat that by two hundredths of a second to go quickest.

As within the opening session, many drivers have been having to battle with their automobiles across the a number of sustained corners. Sergio Perez was a kind of drivers, persevering with his struggles from the sooner session, however his afternoon was made additional difficult when he spent and prolonged time frame within the Purple Bull storage with a technical drawback.

Heading into the later section of the hour, groups began to concentrate on race simulation runs. A number of drivers complained of dropping grip from their tyres comparatively early, even on the medium compound, together with Max Verstappen. Norris deserted his run on smooth tyres after working very huge over the exit kerb at flip 9.

With no enhancements within the instances within the remaining 10 minutes, the chequered flag greeted drivers on the high of the hour at 6pm placing Hamilton quickest of all, mere hundredths forward of Sainz in second.

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Norris ended the session third quickest, with Pierre Gasly a shock entry within the high 5 in fourth for Alpine. Verstappen in fifth made it 5 completely different groups on the high of the instances.

Charles Leclerc was sixth within the second Ferrari, with Oscar Piastri, Russell, Esteban Ocon and Valtteri Bottas rounding out the highest ten.

There was not a single yellow flag incident or notable off by the session, with all 20 drivers finishing not less than 21 laps of working.