F1 Bahrain GP Live Updates - Friday practice
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
Summary
Hamilton tops Bahrain Grand Prix FP2, having also gone fastest in the opening session | |
Verstappen P2, Bottas P3 with Perez fourth and Ricciardo fifth | |
Albon brings out the red flags after heavy crash at the final corner; second session stoppage comes after dog spotted on the circuit | |
Pirelli's 2021 tyre construction tested in early part of the session | |
Russell back out for Williams after Nissany's FP1 run, Raikkonen back in at Alfa Romeo for Kubica |
Status: Stopped
Here's the session report from practice - we'll see you again for tomorrow's FP3 and quali fun!
Hamilton leads from Verstappen, Bottas, Perez, Ricciardo, Gasly - with Norris, Stroll, Kvyat and the wall-bothering Albon complete the top 10.
A few deleted laptimes coming up on the screen - although they're not quick times, so it won't change the current order.
F1's new quali pace graphic has popped up, which omits the pace of the hot-lapping dog earlier in the session. So, it's not truly representative.
Plenty of complaints about tyres from the drivers - and as we all know, the unhappier the drivers are, the more mixed up things get. Probably. We've not actually scientifically tested this.
Verstappen's asked for a front wing update. "All good, the tyres just die," comes the Dutchman's reply.
Plenty of longer soft-tyre runs in force for now, with nobody setting any particularly quick times. Times are around the 1m35s and 1m36s, so we're in race prep mode.
The beady-eyed cameraman caught that dog sneaking on-track. Meanwhile, Albon's broken Red Bull returns to the paddock.
That has to be F1's shortest green flag ever. There's a wee dog on-track, that's why, and it's a very cute dog.
For those of you following along on Twitter - apologies, it hasn't picked up our posts! It should be back now. We think Albon's Red Bull hit something that made it work.
So, we've got about 35 minutes of this session left. The clock continues to tick down as the clean-up crew removes Albon's rather dog-eared Red Bull.
Albon got wide at the final corner, the car didn't bite amid the dust, and puts thousands on the team's repair bill.
Perez is now just 0.08s off of Verstappen that time around with softs, although Bottas now splits the two to go P2.
Vettel did lock up at turn 10, but the wheel kept rotating so it's not been too damaging to his tyres. He's currently in P8.
"I have quite heavy vibrations at the end of straights," Vettel says. His tyres seem okay, so we're not too sure about flat spots...
More work to the underside of Verstappen's car, which he'd done in FP1 too. Elsewhere in F1 faux pas watch, Sainz and Leclerc have both wrestled with kerbs and come off worse. Kerb your enthusiasm, chaps.
Hamilton comes in to finally ditch the Pirelli test tyre, having been trundling around on the mystery compound. We have a few on fresh mediums, and others on fresh softs.
IMSA-bound Magnussen is briefly up to fourth, before being shoved down the order a bit by Kvyat and Ocon.
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