Oscar Piastri fastest in FP2 from George Russell

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri has set the quickest time in Friday’s second apply session at the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix.

Piastri set his benchmark midway by means of the one-hour session to seize the lead from Mercedes driver George Russell.

In the beginning of the session Piastri’s team-mate Lando Norris picked up the place he left off by instantly dipping beneath his FP1 main time with a 1m13.636s on mediums.

Norris led the early operating forward of Max Verstappen and Piastri, till Russell upped the tempo after quarter-hour with a 1m13.501s.

The Briton went quicker nonetheless after he placed on Pirelli’s softest compound and clocked a 1m13.046s after 23 minutes, following by Mercedes team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli 1 / 4 of a second behind.

Verstappen and Norris set equivalent lap occasions should 0.024s behind Russell, till Piastri took over command on the midway mark.

The Australian’s soft-tyre lap of 1m12.760s remained on the high of the leaderboard all through the session as groups switched focus to lengthy runs.

Piastri led the session 0.286s away from Russell and 0.310s forward of each Verstappen and Norris, whereas Charles Leclerc was fifth for Ferrari after demoting Antonelli.

Fernando Alonso was an encouraging seventh in entrance of his house followers within the Aston Martin, adopted by Alpine man Pierre Gasly.

Racing Bulls duo Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson rounded out the highest 10.

Oliver Bearman suffered the one incident of notice, as he spun into the gravel early on within the session at Flip 3, and wanted his Haas automobile repairing within the staff storage. The British driver ended FP2 nineteenth, solely faster than Alpine’s Franco Colapinto.

F1 Spanish GP – FP2 outcomes

Photographs from Spanish GP – Apply