Rain generates jumbled F1 Hungary practice rundown
08/02/2019
Red Bull outpaced Ferrari and Mercedes in a rain-hampered Friday practice for the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Pierre Gasly paced Friday practice for the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix, but with each of the fastest times set inside the first 10 minutes ahead of some weather, don’t read too much into the time sheets.
Normally, seeing Sebastian Vettel in P13 would cause a few heart attacks and a Red Bull one-two would have Mercedes scratching their heads, but these times were not indicative of race pace.
The session was further interrupted in its infancy when Alex Albon dipped his left-rear into the grass and span into the tire barrier at the final corner.
With some drivers attempting to set a headline-grabbing time and others trying to gain as much long-run data as possible in the short amount of dry running, the order was jumbled about somewhat.
Red Bull split their drivers across the soft and medium tires and, with just +0.055 separating the pair, Gasly ended the day narrowly ahead of teammate Max Verstappen.
“I think the main thing for us is that FP1 was strong and FP2 was also strong for us, in the dry and also in the wet,” said Gasly. “So far, I’m happy with the car, with the few laps that we did, and let’s see what we can fight for tomorrow.”
With the forecast for Saturday’s qualifying session changing constantly from dry to wet, it may not turn out to have been a complete waste of a session for those drivers who did venture out on the intermediate tires for a few exploratory laps.
“The weather at the moment seems to be similar to today, so it could be really tricky conditions,” said Gasly. “It was good to get some laps on the dry and on the wet this afternoon.”
Practice Two Results
Pos.
Driver
Constructor
Tire
Time
1
Pierre Gasly
Aston Martin Red Bull Racing
S
1:17.854
2
Max Verstappen
Aston Martin Red Bull Racing
M
+0.055
3
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport
H
+0.141
4
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport
M
+0.330
5
Daniel Ricciardo
Renault F1 Team
S
+0.743
6
Kimi Raikkonen
Alfa Romeo Racing
S
+0.828
7
Charles Leclerc
Scuderia Ferrari
M
+0.998
8
Nico Hulkenberg
Renault F1 Team
S
+1.038
9
Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo Racing
S
+1.055
10
Daniil Kvyat
Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda
S
+1.103
11
Romain Grosjean
Rich Energy Haas F1 Team
M
+1.295
12
Kevin Magnussen
Rich Energy Haas F1 Team
H
+1.324
13
Sebastian Vettel
Scuderia Ferrari
H
+1.400
14
Carlos Sainz Jr.
McLaren F1 Team
M
+1.544
15
Sergio Perez
SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team
H
+1.867
16
Lance Stroll
SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team
H
+1.920
17
George Russell
ROKiT Williams Racing
S
+2.035
18
Lando Norris
McLaren F1 Team
M
+2.547
19
Robert Kubica
ROKiT Williams Racing
S
+2.585
20
Alexander Albon
Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda
No Time Set
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