T🐠he Mercedes driver was ninth quickest in a heavily-delayed and extended second practice but said he enjoyed his first outing around the high-speed street circuit. 

“It’s incredibly fasꦬt and so much fun. I’m so glad we got to run again,” the seven-time world champion said. 

“Not greaꦺt i🐷n P1, with what happened, but they did a great job to fix it.” 

Hamilton added: “You are slidജing through the high-sp𝕴eed corners but also the low-speed corners. 

“You don’t have a huge amount of load, because you need the strai♌ght-line speed. And the temperatures are having a big effect on it.

"It’s massively challenging. Even though they’ve got the long straights, there are🌜n’t a lot of places ☂to overtake because the grip is so low.

“And the tow is not huge, a bit like Monza when you’re behind people because you’ve got the small wing, there’s not a lot💜 of drag. 

“It will be interesting. Qualifying position will be really important, and degradatio🎀n will be key.” 

Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, who ended up 1𒐪2th in FP2, echoed Hamilton’s verdiಞct. 

“It was ꧅good to finally get going after quite a lon💃g day,” Russell said. 

“Good to get out the🉐re, a very fast circuit. Highest top speed of the year, probably.

“Obviously racing at night is pretty s𒐪pectacular.” 

Russell likened the first fꩲew exploratory laps to “driving around on ice” due to the low grip levels. 

“The track is evolving with every lap,🐈” he explained. “The first laps you did, you are drivi🃏ng around on ice. 

“No grip, y🃏ou can visibility see the dirt and dust. Every lap🦋, you are learning. You are going faster, the track is faster, your brake point is changing. 

“It’s tricky when you are going 230mph into both braking zones, picking the braking point with very little downforce on the car. It was goo♒d fun.”