Lewis Hamilton drove his Mercedes to the top spot on day one of the Spanish Grand Prix weekend. The Mercedes topped the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz and the Mclaren of Lando Norris in FP2 with championship point leader Max Verstappen finishing 5th fastest in the session. Hamilton said, “FP1 wasn’t the best session for us but we still learned quite a lot. FP2 was a lot better though and the car was feeling great. The track was very hot, so it was tough on the tyres, especially on the long run. Overall, though, it didn’t feel like we were too far off being right in the mix at the front.
We have taken a step forward with the car in recent races. Everyone has worked so hard to get us to this point and make those incremental gains. We’ve got a clear direction of where we want to go moving forward too. We’re starting to see that feed through to our performance on track. Hopefully we can continue the momentum from today into Saturday and get closer to our competitors ahead.”
FP3 is up next before the sole qualifying session of the weekend.
FP2 Results from the Spanish Grand Prix
| POS | NO | DRIVER | CAR | TIME | GAP | LAPS |
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| 1 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | MERCEDES | 1:13.264 | | 28 |
| 2 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | FERRARI | 1:13.286 | +0.022s | 30 |
| 3 | 4 | Lando Norris | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 1:13.319 | +0.055s | 31 |
| 4 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | ALPINE RENAULT | 1:13.443 | +0.179s | 27 |
| 5 | 1 | Max Verstappen | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 1:13.504 | +0.240s | 29 |
| 6 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | FERRARI | 1:13.597 | +0.333s | 22 |
| 7 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 1:13.622 | +0.358s | 28 |
| 8 | 63 | George Russell | MERCEDES | 1:13.722 | +0.458s | 28 |
| 9 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | ALPINE RENAULT | 1:13.766 | +0.502s | 30 |
| 10 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | KICK SAUBER FERRARI | 1:13.924 | +0.660s | 30 |
| 11 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | HAAS FERRARI | 1:14.021 | +0.757s | 32 |
| 12 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | HAAS FERRARI | 1:14.053 | +0.789s | 29 |
| 13 | 11 | Sergio Perez | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 1:14.081 | +0.817s | 23 |
| 14 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES | 1:14.091 | +0.827s | 28 |
| 15 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | RB HONDA RBPT | 1:14.211 | +0.947s | 31 |
| 16 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | RB HONDA RBPT | 1:14.257 | +0.993s | 29 |
| 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 | 28 |
| 19 | 23 | Alexander Albon | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 1:14.807 | +1.543s | 34 |
| 20 | 2 | Logan Sargeant | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 1:15.070 | +1.806s | 33 |