United States Grand Prix – United States Grand Prix – The FP2 tyre allowed drivers who missed FP1 to use familiar tyres and this allowed them to beat the times.
Following the cancellation of the Pirelli tyre overhaul scheduled for FP2 in Japan due to rain, today’s FP2 will be used for the review and will last for 90 minutes. It will be difficult to compare times. However, the five riders who did not participate in FP1 will have general tyres at their disposal.
(FP2) Results of the second practice – United States Grand Prix 2022
Valtteri Bottas, absent from FP1 while Theo Pourchaire took off his car, was the first to get out when the lights turned green. Alfa Romeo’s driving force was followed by Daniel Ricciardo, who also missed the opening session by passing over his car. Alex Palou.
Bottas in the media scored the first time on the board, a 1:40. 655, this was passed by just over a tenth and a part through Ricciardo in the same compound before Charles Leclerc, in the softs, scored a 1:38. 856.
Fifteen minutes into the session, there were seven cars on the track, and most drivers completed two fastest laps on their mysterious tyres before returning to the pits. Leclerc, switching to midfielders, extended his lead up front, cutting his opening time. through two seconds at 1:36. 810, a few hundredths faster than Carlos Sainz’s FP1 time.
After the first hour partial, it is the 3 drivers with known tyres who are in the lead, Leclerc’s time still holds, while Bottas and Ricciardo in the comfortable are the only ones less than a moment behind the Ferrari driver. Sainz was the most productive of the unknown tires, even so the Spaniard was 1,422 moments of the pace of his teammates.
The remaining time saw significant adjustments in the timesheets, with the first 3 also moving on the unknown compounds. With a race plan of less than 90 minutes on the maps, many groups and drivers finished long before time ran out, so cars were scarce, especially in the last hourly part.
The day ended with Leclerc, Bottas and Ricciardo in the top three, Sainz in P4 while Mick Schumacher took P5 for Haas with a 1:39. 507. Lando Norris finished FP2 in P6 with Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton only him. Ten was completed through Pierre Gasly and Sergio Perez.
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