Lewis Hamilton leads Mercedes 1-2 in FP2 at F1 Bahrain Grand Prix
Mercedes 1-2 in FP2🍌 at F1 Bahrain Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton goes fastest
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton went fastest in the second practice session at the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix on Thursday to give Mercedes a🎃 mꦯuch-needed boost.
Teammate 😼George Russell was second-faste♏st - while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was notably sixth.
Fernando Alonso was third, behind the Mercedes duo, Carlos Sainz was🅠 fourth, Oscar Piastri fifth.
Hami𝄹lton’s pace - a best time of 1m30.374s - in FP2 will deliver some optimism at Mercedes who, at the opening round of the 2024 F1 season, hope their new W15 car will represent a turnaround after two terrible years.
Just six minutes in, Hamilton set a benc🌃hmark of 1:30.751s.
He led Verstappen by half-a-second for the maj🌄ority of FP2.
The three-time F1 champion and Red Bull driver was left complaining "I have too 💃much air coming through my helmet" 🐻in a frustrating session.
Verstappen may have taken some comfort from a race simulation ꦺwhich was fastest, ahead of Hamilton.
A😼fter qualifying simulation times, with 20 minutes left on the clock, Hamilton led Russell, Alonso, Sainz, Piastri and Verstappen.
Lando Norris was last after the qualifying sim having made an err♋or which resulted in him aborting his lap.
The third practice session, and qualifyin🐼g, will be h♕eld on Friday.
The F1 Ba💙hr♎ain Grand Prix then takes place on Saturday, 24 hours earlier than the usual traditional slot in Formula 1 to take into account the start of Ramadan in the host country.
James was a sports journalist 𝄹at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to fo🔥otball, to F1.
