F1 Dutch GP: Charles Leclerc tops tight second practice, Red Bull off the pace
Just 0.072s separated the top three in FP2 during the qualifying simulation runs on soft tyrꦦes, with Leclerc hea🔯ding the pack after setting a new benchmark time on a 1m12.345s.
Leclerc pipped Sainz by justﷺ 0.004s, while Hamilton was only 0.072s off the quickest time in what has so far been an encouraging showing from 💫Mercedes.
McLaren’s Lando Norris was fourth and just a tenth adrift of Leclerc, with George Russell completing the top five in the se𒁃cond Mercedes, a coup♌le of tenths further behind Hamilton.
Lance Stroll put his Aston Martin sixth ahead of Alpine’s Fernando Alonso, while Max Verstappen was only eighth-fastest on what has been a difficult start to his home event at the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Dutch Grand Prix.
The reignin🃏g world champion broke down with a gearbox issue just 10 minutes into the opening session, and was uncharacteristically six tenths off the pace in FP2.
Verstappen’s Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez was also out൲ of position in 11th, 1.1s down.
Alpine’s Esteban Ocon took ninth ahead of♈ Daniel Ricciardo, whose session came to a premature end after McLaren discovered an oil leak on the radiator of his car.
A fairly uneventful session was briefly disrupted with 12 minutes left on the clock when Yuki Tsunoda🐈 beached his AlphaTauri in the gravel trap at Turn 10.
At the other end of the order, N🐻icholas Latifi was once again anchored to the bottoജm of the practice timesheet for Williams.
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