Lando Norris set the benchmark within the second free observe session, beating his team-mate Oscar Piastri by two tenths of a second to go a dominant McLaren one-two at Abu Dhabi. F1Technical’s lead journalist Balazs Szabo stories on the second one-hour session on the Yas Marina Circuit.
McLaren regarded fast within the first observe session, with Lando Norris ending up second quickest behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. The British driver then managed to go quickest of all within the second one-hour session, beating his team-mate Oscar Piastri on a weekend when the Woking-based outfit would possibly clinch its first Constructors’ title for the reason that 1998 season.
Finishing his last race with Haas, Nico Hulkenberg took a shock third, forward of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who can also be about to depart his present crew after the season finale in Abu Dhabi.
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, who will substitute Ferrari’s Spanish driver subsequent yr, racked up a complete of 28 laps to finish up fifth within the standings.
Leclerc, who set the tempo in FP1, encountered heavy visitors on his first flying lap, however he nonetheless managed to take sixth. The Monégasque endured reliability points along with his battery within the opening sixty-minute session, which pressured Ferrari to switch his unit with a brand new one which can see Leclerc serve a ten-place grid drop on Sunday.
Valtteri Bottas, who will go away Sauber after this weekend, squeezed out a aggressive lap of his C44 to take P7 forward of Haas driver Kevin Magnussen, with Williams racer Alexander Albon and RB’s Yuki Tsunoda rounding out the highest ten.
It was extremely tight between P10 and P18, with hundreds of a second separating Liam Lawson (P11), Pierre Gasly (P12), George Russell (P13), Sergio Perez (P14), Zhou Guanyu (P15), Fernando Alonso (P16), Max Verstappen (P17) and Lance Stroll (P18).
Forward of his debut yr with Alpine as a full-time F1 race driver, Jack Doohan changed Esteban Ocon for this weekend. The Australian notched up a complete of 27 laps, ending up nineteenth, with Williams racer Franco Colapinto citing the rear of the sector.
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