F1 outcomes: Oscar Piastri leads the best way in FP2 on the F1 Spanish Grand Prix

If the primary two hours of apply on the Method 1 Spanish Grand Prix are any indication, McLaren stays the workforce to beat.

Even with the brand new Technical Directive impacting entrance wings that was put into place forward of this weekend.

After Lando Norris topped the timing sheets in FP1, Oscar Piastri led the best way in FP2 with a lap of 1:12.760. That point was 0.286 seconds forward of the time posted by Mercedes driver George Russell. Max Verstappen and Norris completed with the identical time of 1:13.070, which was 0.310 seconds off Piastri’s tempo.

Charles Leclerc rounded out the highest 5 with a time of 1:13.260.

The session started at 5:00 p.m. native time with a number of drivers rolling out of the storage, led by Leclerc on a set of the C2 medium tires. That was widespread all through the circuit, because the drivers targeted on lengthy runs to begin the session. Leclerc was one in every of 18 drivers utilizing the C2 medium compound, whereas Lance Stroll and Franco Colapinto took to the observe on the C1 exhausting tires.

The early runs noticed Norris once more atop the timing sheets adopted by Verstappen — as was the case in FP1 — adopted by Piastri. Fernando Alonso and Russell rounded out the highest 5, with every time set on the C2 medium compound.

Russell finally jumped to the highest of the timing sheets, with a lap that put him 0.135 seconds forward of Norris, set on the medium compound. Across the 40-minute mark of the session, he returned to the observe on a set of the C3 tender tires, Russell’s soft-tire run of the weekend. His subsequent time of 1:13.046 saved him on the prime of the timing sheets.

His Mercedes teammate, Kimi Antonelli, jumped to P2 together with his first run on the tender tires.

Verstappen and Norris then returned to the observe on tender tires, and pumped in the identical precise time of 1:13.070.

Proper on the 30-minute mark, Piastri delivered a thunderous lap as he was purple via all three sectors to enter P1, 0.286 seconds forward of Russell.

After a set of soft-tire runs, Lewis Hamilton radioed in that the automobile was “undriveable.” Ferrari pushed his SF-25 again into the storage, in the hunt for solutions but once more. Ruth Buscombe on F1TV famous that Ferrari introduced a efficiency improve to the Spanish Grand Prix, together with some new parts to their entrance wing past the brand new Technical Directive necessities.

Because the session wound down, a lot of the grid was targeted on longer runs, with Piastri, Verstappen, Norris, Leclerc, and Hamilton amongst these on the observe with the C2 medium tires. There was a late second within the session as Verstappen thought of a lunge by Leclerc into Flip 1, however then backed up behind the Ferrari driver:

FP2 drew to a detailed with Piastri atop the timing board, adopted by a prime 5 of Russell, Verstappen, Norris, and Leclerc. Antonelli, Alonso, Pierre Gasly, Isack Hadjar, and Liam Lawson rounded out the highest ten.

The groups and drivers will now spend the night pouring over the information forward of FP3 and Qualifying, which arrive tomorrow.

Listed below are the complete outcomes from FP2 on the Spanish Grand Prix: