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2021 Formula 1 Spanish GP
May 6, 2021 to May 9, 2021
| Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, ES
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- Hamilton tops the times in FP2 by 0.139s from Bottas ahead of the Spanish GP
- Verstappen runs wide at Turn 10 on soft tyre run, down in P9
- Leclerc puts Ferrari in third ahead of Alpine pair Ocon and Alonso
- Brief Virtual Safety Car after Sainz suffers front wing damage
- Bottas fastest in FP1 from Verstappen and Hamilton
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Leaderboard
- Hamilton, Mercedes
- Bottas, Mercedes
- Leclerc, Ferrari
- Ocon, Alpine
- Alonso, Alpine
- Gasly, AlphaTauri
- Tsunoda, AlphaTauri
- Sainz, Ferrari
- Verstappen, Red Bull
- Perez, Red Bull
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10:13:42 am
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That's us wrapping up today - we'll catch you tomorrow for FP3 and qualifying. Over and out.
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10:13:14 am
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And here's your session report. Despite earlier messages to the contrary, you should definitely read it - as it was a really exciting session and not at all dull: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/spanish-gp-fp2-report/6504199/
10:08:27 am
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If sprint races are good for anything, it's to save us from the drudgery of FP2 sessions.
10:06:49 am
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So, it's Hamilton from Bottas in that session - a reverse of FP1. Leclerc was third, ahead of Ocon and Alonso, with Gasly and Tsunoda in sixth and seventh ahead of Sainz. Verstappen and Perez completed the top 10.
10:04:39 am
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Checkered flag
10:00:59 am
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And that's your lot for FP2. I'm going to grind some coffee after that - 'twas a bit of a snorer.
09:59:39 am
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Verstappen just popped in and out of the pits, returning - unhelpfully - in team-mate Perez's path.
09:57:24 am
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We're into the final few minutes of the session now, and both Hamilton and Gasly are the highest-lapping drivers with 29 a piece. Perez is lowest with 20 so far.
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09:54:13 am
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If we combined the best sectors, we'd have a 1m17.945s - taking Hamilton's first sector, Bottas' second, and Leclerc's third.
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09:52:38 am
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"How are the tyres, how is the balance?" asks Fernando Alonso's race engineer. "Oversteering," comes the curt reply.
09:50:31 am
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09:48:41 am
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Bottas had his long-run on the softs paused, and he's now taken on the mediums to do some further exploration.
09:46:01 am
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The Mercs are running around in the low 1m23s, which Leclerc and Alonso were in the same ball-park. Gasly was in the high 1m23s last time around, with Ocon on mediums in the mid-1m24s.
09:42:56 am
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It feels like pre-season testing now, with drivers pounding around the Barcelona circuit on race runs. The only thing that would complete the experience is the dreaded Burger Stall of Gloom...
09:39:33 am
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Now, the "fun" begins as the teams assess how deep into a race the soft tyre will go.
09:37:26 am
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Kimi Raikkonen's Alfa is currently doused in flow-vis paint to assess some bargeboard and floor aero movements. Otherwise, it's quite quiet now as we waltz to the race-style runs.
09:35:33 am
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Perez brings his car up into the top 10, going up to 10th and just over a tenth off Verstappen.
09:33:24 am
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Tsunoda now goes P7, just a slither off Gasly's best lap so far, so his earlier hop-skip-jump over the Campsa kerb hasn't affected him too much.
09:32:32 am
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Some improvements still happening out there - Gasly went up to P6 before coming into the pits, while Ricciardo posts a better lap but can only get P14.
09:29:41 am
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Verstappen was on a quicker lap, but got caught out at Turn 10 and had a severe case of the wiggles - carrying in too much pace.
09:27:01 am
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Alonso wedges himself between Ocon and Sainz to go P5, which points at a very close midfield battle this weekend.
09:25:22 am
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Ocon then went up to fourth, with Sainz moving up to fifth - so it's all change as we approach the end of the first half-hour.
09:24:24 am
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Gasly now gets up to third as the field all takes to the soft tyre running, but is quickly nudged down a spot by Ferrari's Leclerc.
09:23:25 am
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Norris now pops his McLaren between the two Astons, going fifth fastest.
09:22:40 am
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The Aston duo blasts into the top five on softs, with Vettel in fourth 0.2s ahead of Stroll in fifth.
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09:21:24 am
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Now bearing soft tyres, Bottas does a 1m18.309s to go a tenth faster than his best - but Hamilton on the same compound logs a 1m18.170s to go top.
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09:20:25 am
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There's a replay of Tsunoda running over the Turn 9 kerbs, knocking out some fillings and giving his AlphaTauri car a few problems to boot. "The car switched off," he says.
09:17:58 am
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Ricciardo gets himself up to P11, two tenths off Norris, and displaces Giovinazzi in the meantime. Stroll, Sainz, Raikkonen, Vettel, Latifi, Russell, Schumacher and Mazepin complete the order.
09:16:40 am
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After the initial flurry of runs, our top 10 is: Bottas, Hamilton, Verstappen, Alonso, Gasly, Ocon, Perez, Leclerc, Tsunoda and Norris.
09:14:22 am
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Verstappen remains third, but now gets into the 1m18s with a 1m18.785s. That puts him further ahead of the Alpine duo, Perez and Gasly.
09:13:15 am
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'Twas a bit of debris shed from the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz Jr, who went wide at Campsa and lost some bodywork to the sausage kerb.
Yellow flag
09:12:26 am
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We've got a VSC to clear a spot of debris, but that's swiftly cleared by a sprinting marshal.
09:11:36 am
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Hamilton has another tilt, half a tenth off Bottas' best as it stands. Verstappen is a further half-second behind the Mercedes duo.
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09:09:58 am
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Bottas raises the bar even further and logs a 1m18.419s lap - just under a tenth quicker than his best this morning.
09:08:27 am
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09:06:54 am
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Hamilton then drops into second, going 0.2s slower than Bottas, but then Verstappen logs a 1m19.041s to go quickest on mediums.
09:05:51 am
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Leclerc's up to second with Norris third at the moment, with Ocon ahead of Sainz.
09:04:50 am
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Schumacher evokes memories of the 1982 German World Cup team with an excellent save, catching his errant Haas at Turn 2. Well held.
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09:04:10 am
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Immediately, Bottas smashes that with a 1m19.087s, which was inevitable really.
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09:03:37 am
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First lap recorded goes to Antonio Giovinazzi, a 1m20.691s.
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By: Stephen Lickorish, Jake Boxall-Legge
Published: May 7, 2021, 2:13 PM
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