The second training on Friday gave the racers important information about driving at night, and the current world champion was the best this time. Lewis Hamilton, who managed to get below the limit at the beginning of training with medium-hard tires minutes and forty seconds, which can also be attributed to lower temperatures and better adhesion of asphalt in Marina Bay.
He then improved the time on soft tires to 1: 38.773, beating him by just under two tenths of a second. Max Verstappen, third Sebastian Vettel it is already more than eight tenths of a second behind. He finished in fourth place Valtteri Bottas, who finished his first free practice in the enclosure. Both Mercedes racers finished training each with their own strategy, Hamilton on soft and Bottas on intermediate tires.
He placed fifth Alex Albon, who was left without a front wing at the very beginning of the second free practice, which was the result of a braking error and a collision in the 10th corner. Charles Leclerc was able to reach sixth place, both Ferrari however, they had quite a few problems with heavy traffic on the track, and Leclerc almost got involved with a slow-moving Lance Stroll, who “scratched” the fence.
The faster middle of the scale is already, as usual, reserved for McLaren, honey Sainz in Norris but he interjected Nico Hulkenberg z Renault, which was significantly faster than both Daniel Ricciard. The top ten is again completed by both racers of the team Toro Rosso, which swapped the order in the second, so that gasly finished before Quiet.
