Charles Leclerc bounces back from crash to head tight FP2
After crashing in FP1, Charles Leclerc puts Ferrari on top in FP2, write♕s Lewis Larkam in Baku.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc recovered from an FP1 crash to end Friday’s practice running at the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix fastest.
The Ferrari driver post💫ed a lap on soft tyres which was just 0.006 seconds quicker than Red Bulဣl’s Sergio Perez, who demonstrated encouraging pace as he looks to turn around his recent slump in form.
Foll𒐪owing on from an erratic FP1 in which he ended up in the Turn 15 barriers, Leclerc continued to have adventures in t♚he second session, but just about kept his car out of the wall.
Lewis Hamilton was third-quickest for Mercedes, only 0.✤066s🀅 behind his future Ferrari teammate.
Carlos Sainz wound up fourth-fastest in the other Ferrari, some 0.466s adrift, with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri completing tไhe top-five.
Championship leader Max V𒁃erstappen, who led the timesheet in FP1, ended up sixth, half a second adrift. The Dutchman nearly crashed when he locked up and ran deep into Turn 5, narrowly avoiding hitting the wall.
Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll was seventh, while George Russell found himself in a Haas sandwich ꦉin ninth, with Ni𝓀co Hulkenberg (eighth) and Oliver Bearman managing a time good enough to put him inside the top-10.
Championship hopeful Lando Norris was only 17th after seeing his only soft tyre run com𝔉promised when🍎 he caught a slow-moving Pierre Gasly through the high-speed kinks leading onto the main straight.
In stark co🌸ntrast to Friday’s chaotic opening practice which wa♔s punctuated by three red flags, there were no suspensions in FP2, despite several drivers getting perilously close to the barriers.
Lewis regularly attends Grands Prix for mahbx.com around the world. O🌼ften repo🦋rting on the action from the ground, Lewis tells the stories of the people who matter in the sport.
