2018 Azerbaijan GP second practice: Kimi P2, Sebastian P11. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo topped the second free practice session.

Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo led the way during an intriguing second practice session for Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Friday afternoon.

Ricciardo held an advantage on the Supersoft runs before improving across a sequence of laps on Ultrasofts, with the rubber remaining grippy enough for two or three hot laps in one stint. Ricciardo’s initially eye-catching advantage on Supersofts was whittled down on Ultrasofts and he wound up just 0.069s clear of Scuderia Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen. Kimi though, received a handy slipstream from Ricciardo on the long run to the start/finish line, leaving him able to split the Red Bull drivers.

Max Verstappen missed the opening 20 minutes of running as Red Bull finished the repairs on his RB14 following his FP1 crash and remained on the edge upon returning to the track. Verstappen went wide on his first Supersoft run and clipped the wall exiting Turn 7 on his Ultrasoft effort – though still placed third, just 0.116s behind team-mate Ricciardo. Mercedes’ struggles on the Ultrasoft tyres continued, with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton fourth and fifth, over seven-tenths behind Ricciardo.

Scuderia Ferrari German driver and Championship leader Sebastian Vettel had a scruffy session, finding the escape road on three separate occasions as he finished down in 11th position, 1.3s behind Ricciardo.

Azerbaijan – Practice 2

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	1:42.795		35
2	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1:42.864	0.069	33
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:42.911	0.116	27
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:43.570	0.775	25
5	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:43.603	0.808	31
6	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	1:43.700	0.905	34
7	Esteban Ocon	Force India	1:43.814	1.019	30
8	Carlos Sainz	Renault	1:43.834	1.039	36
9	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	1:43.977	1.182	29
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1:44.091	1.296	33
11	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:44.127	1.332	38
12	Sergio Perez	Force India	1:44.142	1.347	31
13	Romain Grosjean	Haas	1:44.425	1.630	27
14	Lance Stroll	Williams	1:44.459	1.664	31
15	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso	1:44.712	1.917	39
16	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	1:44.940	2.145	30
17	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	1:45.007	2.212	33
18	Brendon Hartley	Toro Rosso	1:45.051	2.256	36
19	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	1:45.288	2.493	29
20	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	1:46.042	3.247	9