Friday finished how it started for Mercedes with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton combining for another 1-2 in FP2 ahead of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Just 0.010s separated the Mercedes pair, but Max Verstappen was unable to get involved in the fight after he suffered an on-track stoppage just 10 minutes into the session.
Instead, his former team-mate Pierre Gasly grabbed P3 with a stellar lap ahead of the Scuderia Ferrari duo of Carlos Sainz (P4) and Charles Leclerc (P5).
Charles Leclerc provided a brief moment of shock as he went P1, but his time was soon deleted for exceeding track limits. The Monegasque driver eventually finished P5 and had a positive session until the final stages, when Charles brought Practice Two to an early conclusion dur to a crash at Turn 19 in his Ferrari.
Both Ferrari drivers set their personal best times (Carlos – 1:15.834, Charles – 1:16.371) on the soft tyres. A long way to go in this Imola weekend, of course…
FP2 timesheet
1 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 1:15.551 M
2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 0.010s S
3 Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 0.078s S
4 Carlos Sainz Ferrari 0.283s S
5 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 0.820s S
6 Sergio Perez Red Bull 0.860s S
7 Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 0.868s S
8 Lando Norris McLaren 0.934s S
9 Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing 2.040s S
10 Lance Stroll Aston Martin 1.186s S
11 Esteban Ocon Alpine 1.266s S
12 Nicholas Latifi Williams 1.272s S
13 Fernando Alonso Alpine 1.284s S
14 Max Verstappen Red Bull 1.448s M
15 Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 1.541s S
16 George Russell Williams 1.628s S
17 Kimi Raikkonen Alfa Romeo Racing 1.722s S
18 Daniel Ricciardo McLaren 1.730s M
19 Mick Schumacher Haas 1.799s S
20 Nikita Mazepin Haas 2.306s S
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