Lewis Hamilton 2024 Spanish GP

F1 News: Lewis Hamilton tops 2nd Practice for Spanish GP

Mercedes veteran Lewis Hamilton turned a lap of 1m13.264s to top the 2nd practice session for the 2024 Spanish GP at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

–by Mark Cipolloni–

Hamilton’s fast lap was just 0.022s better than the #55 Ferrari of Carlos Sainz Jr.

Fast man in Practice 1, Lando Norris, was third, 0.055s behind Hamilton in is #4 McLaren.

Pierre Gasly was 0.179s behind Hamilton in his Alpine and Max Verstappen rounded out the top-5. Verstappen was not happy with his inferior Red Bull, 0.240s behind the Mercedes.

Charles Leclerc was 6th in his #16 Ferrari, 0.333s back.

Less than a second separated Hamilton in P1 and Ricciardo in P16 – it’s a quick circuit here, and not the longest on the calendar either so margins were always expected to be tight, but even so.

One mistake in qualifying could easily drop a driver out in Q1 tomorrow, which is going to make that a fascinating session.

Two hours of practice complete, one more hour to come. Will Red Bull find something overnight to get back into the mix? There will be plenty of data analysis going on late into this evening, especially for the teams with upgrades here.

But as it stands, it is advantage to Mercedes.

2024 Spanish GP Practice 2 Results

POS NO DRIVER CAR TIME GAP LAPS
1 44 Lewis Hamilton MERCEDES 1:13.264 +0.000s 27
2 55 Carlos Sainz FERRARI 1:13.286 +0.022s 29
3 4 Lando Norris MCLAREN MERCEDES 1:13.319 +0.055s 30
4 10 Pierre Gasly ALPINE RENAULT 1:13.443 +0.179s 26
5 1 Max Verstappen RED BULL RACING HONDA 1:13.504 +0.240s 28
6 16 Charles Leclerc FERRARI 1:13.597 +0.333s 21
7 81 Oscar Piastri MCLAREN MERCEDES 1:13.622 +0.358s 27
8 63 George Russell MERCEDES 1:13.722 +0.458s 27
9 31 Esteban Ocon ALPINE RENAULT 1:13.766 +0.502s 29
10 77 Valtteri Bottas KICK SAUBER FERRARI 1:13.924 +0.660s 29
11 20 Kevin Magnussen HAAS FERRARI 1:14.021 +0.757s 31
12 27 Nico Hulkenberg HAAS FERRARI 1:14.053 +0.789s 28
13 11 Sergio Perez RED BULL RACING HONDA 1:14.081 +0.817s 22
14 14 Fernando Alonso ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES 1:14.091 +0.827s 27
15 22 Yuki Tsunoda RB HONDA 1:14.211 +0.947s 30
16 3 Daniel Ricciardo RB HONDA 1:14.257 +0.993s 28
17 24 Zhou Guanyu KICK SAUBER FERRARI 1:14.345 +1.081s 21
18 18 Lance Stroll ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES 1:14.402 +1.138s 27
19 23 Alexander Albon WILLIAMS MERCEDES 1:14.807 +1.543s 33
20 2 Logan Sargeant WILLIAMS MERCEDES 1:15.070 +1.806s 32