Bahrain Grand Prix FP2 Summary - Ferrari on top

The Scuderia showed more of the blistering pace they had in testing in Barcelona in the evening session as the cooler temperature made for quicker times throughout the night with Vettel setting a time of 1:28.846, ahead of Leclerc by 0.035.
 
Mercedes came just shy of sixth tenths of their rivals but seemed to focus more on practice race starts and other programmes than qualifying laps.
 
Alfa Romeo’s practice session was cut short after water leaks on both Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi’s cars stopeed them from running and left them in the garage fixing the problem to be ready for FP3 tomorrow
 
Red bull seemed to struggle to improve on the times they set on the medium tyres when they put on the softs. With Verstappen managing to finish sixth fastest behind the Renault of Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly in 12th.
 
Daniel Ricciardo was the first driver out onto track but had focused on long runs for most of the session placing him in P15, 1.2 seconds behind his teammate.
 
The competition between the midfield teams looks to be very, very close with the gap from Kevin Magnussen’s Haas in seventh to Ricciardo in P15 only being just under a second.
 
This could make for some interesting battles going into qualifying and the race between Haas, McLaren, Toro Rosso, Racing Point and Renault.
 
Lando Norris out-paced teammate Carlos Sainz finishing eight for the session, whilst both Haas drivers occupied seventh and ninth. Kyvat, who had an excellent race in Australia, showed his reliability and promise for Toro Rosso taking up the last position of the top ten.
 
Raikkonen and Vettel both had an issue with turn two of the track with their cars spinning off due to low grip from the tyre, luckily there wasn’t any serious damage to either car.
 
FP3 is at 12:00pmtomorrow before qualifying later in the afternoon at 15:00pm.

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