Dry track for the first time in this race weekend, which sees the teams carry out their first real long runs in the last free practice session, in view of the Sprint at 16:30, and tomorrow's race.
This session sees George Russell in the lead, in 1:19.457, with Mercedes running a simulation of the sprint with 30kg less fuel than Ferrari. The Brakley-based team proved to be better off on dry track conditions, despite still having some difficulties in finding the ideal setup. In second position is Sergio Perez in 1:19.538, with a decidedly fit Red Bull, which managed to lap in 19 minutes on a medium compound. Charles Leclerc third in 1:19.740, showing a convincing race pace both in sprint simulation and in Sunday race simulation. fourth was the Mercedes of Hamilton, who complained of a drop in power in the first part of the session, and then overheating of the rear tyres. Very good Fernando Alonso who brings his Alpine in fifth position. Sesto Sainz, who takes advantage of FP2 to regain confidence in the car following the mishap in Friday's qualifying. Seventh Max Verstappen, who finishes with a time superior to his teammate, due to a different simulation program that did not envisage the use of the mobile wing, reasoning in fact from the point of view of running the race at the head of the group and without using the DRS . Tail of the top 10 which sees the two AlphaTauri, better in the dry, with Tsunoda ahead of Gasly. Zhou's Alfa Romeo is tenth.
A session to forget for McLaren, who participated for a few laps with only Lando Norris' car after the Englishman had returned to the pits due to a problem with the braking system. Ricciardo out of the car for the entire session due to alleged anomalies on his power unit; similar fate for Bottas, with zero laps due to a car not ready to take part in the 60 minutes of FP2.
Le Haas in 12th and 13th position with Magnussen ahead of Schumacher; 14th Stroll before teammate Sebastian Vettel. Ocon sixteenth and Latifi seventeenth, far behind his teammate Albon, who is the first in the second half of the final standings.
Pirelli forecasts
Speaking to the microphones of sky, Mario Isola reports the estimates of today's sprint and tomorrow's race: for the sprint there is a fair probability of being able to complete the 100 km with soft tyres, and tomorrow could be a one-stop race, with the passage medium to hard, or hard to medium. The deltas of the compounds are approximately 1 second between hard and medium rubber, and 3/4 tenths between medium and soft. We remind you that there is no compound jump for this weekend.
