F1 United States GP: Charles Leclerc outpaces Valtteri Bottas in extended FP2 as Pirelli conducts tyre test
Ferrari driver Leclerc topped the timesheet ahe🔯ad of Bottas’ Alfa Rꦫomeo by 0.715s, with Daniel Ricciardo a further tenth back in third for McLaren after an hour-and-a-half of running on Friday afternoon at Austin.
FP2 was dedicated to trialing two different types of unmarked Pirelli tyre compounds for next season, ๊with botဣh short and long runs carried out. The teams were not made aware of what tyres they would be given for the session.
The driver🧜s who missed out on opening practice at COTA while rookies took p♔art in FP1 were allowed to run their own programme before picking up the test with the rest of the field.
Leclerꦏc, Bottas and Ricciardo were all oꦉn non-prototype tyres when they set their quickest lap times.
Pirelli’s test🐷 was originally meant to be held at the Japanese Grand Prix, but heavy rain at Suzuka at Friday practice meant it had to be postponed until this weekend.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:FP1 pacesetter Carlos Sainz was fourth f🐻or ✱Ferrari, 1.4s slower than his teammate and over a second clear of Mick Schumacher’s Haas in fifth place.
Lando Norris took sixth for McLaren, beating newly crowned world champion168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Max Verstappen by just 0.028s.
Just 0.123s behind Verstappen was Mercedes’168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton, who ended up 2.888s o༒ff the pace in eighth.
Hamilton had a brief scare when he ran ౠwide at Turn 19 and hit the kerb hard but he managed to avoid further drama.
However, the seven-time world champion did manage to annoy Fernando Alonso when he blocked his old title rival in the final sector e⛦arly in the sessio🐼n.
“Hamilton has no mirrors today. U🌠nbelievable,” ♈the Alpine driver bemoaned.
Pierre Gasly and Sౠergio Perez completed the top-10 order for AlphaTauri and Red Bull respectively.
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