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GP OF SPAIN, FP2: Afternoon training for HAMILTON, worse performance RED BULLA

Lewis Hamilton won the afternoon training session of the Spanish Grand Prix, and Valtteri Bottas took care of the good performance of Mercedes with the second place. Third place went to Charles Leclerc.

Photo: HB Press

Mercedes here in Barcelona he shows his teeth Red Bullu, who did not show the expected form this afternoon, as they were both racers bull stable on the tail of ten. Both racers did very well AlipneF1, who took fourth and fifth place, and shows even better form Ferrari, which will have to be taken very seriously here in terms of higher rankings.

They were good team riders again Alpha Tauri, who finished sixth and seventh, and was slightly worse Aston Martin, but it is observed that Hag becoming friends with AMR21, even in the afternoon he was faster than his teammate. A small disappointment, however, is for sure McLaren, but we have to take into account that it is training after all.

result

Lewis Hamilton is its fastest lap over time 1: 18.170 minutes drove on a soft rubber compound. With that, he was in favor one and a half tenths seconds faster than a teammate Valtteria Bottas. He surprisingly ranked behind the Mercedes duo Charles Leclerc, which was just under three hundredths of a second slower than Bottas. In places four and five, however, we find both racers of the team AlpineF1, who continue with the good performance they showed in Portugal.

The fastest in the first practice, Valtteri Bottas, had to hand over the first place to his teammate in the afternoon and settle for second place - Photo: HB Press

Behind the blue race cars of the French team we find Pierre Gasslya z AlphaTauri, who was also the fastest racer s this afternoon Honda engine. After the Frenchman, his teammate ranked seventh Yuki tsunoda, which was two hundredths of a second slower. Seventh place belonged Carlos Sainz in another Ferrari car.

Fastest lap time Max Verstappen, 1: 18.785 minutes, was just enough for ninth place, and he achieved this on medium mixture gum. I failed to drive a good lap on the soft mix. His teammate rounds out the top ten Sergio Perez, who was about a tenth and a half slower than his teammate at Red Bullu.

Surprisingly third was Charles Leclerc, proving Ferrari's good form in one quick lap - Photo: HB Press

Od eleventh place onwards, the racers were classified as follows: Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Lando Norris (McLaren), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo), Lance stroll (Aston Martin), Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), George Russell (Williams), Nicholas latifi (Williams), Mick Schumacher (Haas) and Nikita mazepin (Haas). The latter was 2,5 seconds behind Hamilton.

The fastest racer with a Honda engine did not sit in this time Red Bullu, but to AlphaTauria, and hears the name of Pierre Gasly. His colleague Yuki Tsunoda was also faster than the two red bulls - Photo: HB Press

Incidents

The afternoon training took place almost no noteworthy incidents. He took care of the only one ten minutes after the start of training Carlos Sainz namely for virtual safety car. The Spaniard is on his way out of turn nine he drove too roughly over the curb and the part lying on his car fell off ideal line, which is why the race management decided to for a short time neutralizes trainingto clear the track.

A little later there was almost a collision between Mazepine in Raikkonen, as both teams sent the racer out of the garage at the same time. The Russian found himself close to a Finn who is a racer Haas overtook on the right at the exit of the pits. This time we have to say it is the culprit need to look in the garage and not in the race car.

Max Verstappen tried bone grass with his RB15B 16 minutes before the end of training

A quarter of an hour before the end of training, he found himself on the grass Max Verstappen, but without consequences. Just before at the end of training however, when driving over the curb, he damaged the right end plate of the front wing.   

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