F1 Spanish Grand Prix - FP2 Results
Valtteri Bottas continued to set the pace for Mercedes in seco🐽nd practice for the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday afternoon, edging out teammate Lewis Hamilton by a fine mar💮gin.
, Bottas once again rose to the top🐼 of the timesheets in FP2 as he led Mercedes to a one-two finish.
Bottas turned in a fastest lap time of 1m17.284s to beat Hamilton by jus𓄧t 0.049 seconds, with Mercedes p🍌ulling out a healthy gap over the rest of the chasing pack.
Charles Leclerc took P3 for Ferrari in second prac🧸tice, but finished three-tenths of a second adrif♒t from Bottas’ benchmark time.
Leclerc’s teammate Sebastian Vettel was almost four-tenths of a second b𝔍ack from Bottas come the end of the session, leaving Ferrari with ground to mak🐎e up heading into the remainder of the weekend.
Hamilton was not entirely satisfied with the performance of his car through FP2, though, 𝔍reporting late in the session that something "felt wrong" as he visibly struggled to get it♒ turned in for a number of corners.
Max Verstappen bounced back from 🐻his oil leak in FP1 to finish the session fifth for Red Bull as the Spec 2 Honda power unit made its on-track debut.
Romain Grosjean finished as the leading midfield driver in sixth for Haas ahead of Pierre Gasly in the second Red Bull. Gasly had a close on-track moment wi🌌th Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo on the run down to Turn 1 late in the session, but contact was avoided.
Kevin Magnussen wound up eighth overall for Haas ahead of McLaren’s Carlos Sainz, while Daniil Kvyat rounded out the top 10 positions for T🌟oro Rosso.
Final practice for the Spanish Grand Prix begins at 12pm local time on Sa🌟turday (11am BST).
