Bottas leads a Mercedes 1-2 in the second free practice session at the Hungarian Grand Prix

Valtteri Bottas at the top of the time charts in 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix In the Hungary In Hungary in the second free practice (FP2).

Lewis Hamilton was in second place, just 0.027 seconds behind his teammate. Max Verstappen was third, 0.298 seconds behind.

The eleventh race of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship 2021 takes place in scorching hot conditions in Hungary

The 60-minute free training started under hot conditions with an air temperature of 32 ° C and a track temperature of 58 ° C.

The Pirelli tire choices for this race are the white striped hard rubber tires (C2), the yellow striped center tires (C3) and the red striped soft rubber tires (C4).

Carlos Sainz drove the first timed lap with a time of 1m21.084s on the hard compound tires. Charles Leclerc With a lap time of 1: 19.654 minutes on the medium-sized compound tires, he soon pushed him out of the lead.

Bottas soon fell short of the lap time of 1:19 minutes with a lap of 1: 18.376 minutes. Verstappen took second place behind Bottas. But Hamilton made it to the top of the time tables on his second run on the medium-sized compound tires with a lap time of 1: 18.140 seconds.

45 minutes before the end, the drivers began to unscrew the soft compound tires in order to start the qualification simulation runs. Sebastian Vettel finished second in the time charts with a good lap.

Teammate Lance walk took fourth place in his run. Pierre Gasly after a miserable weekend at Silverstone, this weekend seemed to be in better shape as it climbed to the top of the time charts.

Bottas was again in first place on his flying lap, Hamilton only 0.027 seconds slower than second. Verstappen only managed to move into third place despite complaining about the car’s balance.

All drivers started their racing simulation 20 minutes before the end. Yuki Tsunoda who was in the garage when his car was being repaired came out in the final minutes of the session for a timed lap.

This is how the session ended with the two Mercedes drivers at the top of the time charts. Verstappen and teammates Sergio Perez were divided by Esteban Ocon which was a surprising fourth place in the time charts.

Teammate Fernando Alonso was in seventh place for the on a good day Alpine F1 Team. Gasly was in sixth position, while team-mate Tsunoda languished in seventeenth position.

Vettel and Stroll were in eighth and ten places for them Aston Martin Cognizant Formula 1 team. Lando Norris was in ninth position but was a team-mate Daniel Ricciardo could only take thirteenth place.

The two Scuderia Ferrari The drivers Leclerc and Sainz were eleventh and twelfth respectively. Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi were in places fourteen and nineteen for the Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN Team.

George Russell was in front of his teammate Nicholas Latifi in fifteenth place. Mick Schumacher even finished in eighteenth position as Nikita Mazepin languished in the last place for that Uralkali Haas F1 Team.

The teams struggled to come to terms with the hot conditions and the grippy track. With rain showers for Saturday, the teams hope for cooler conditions.

2021 Hungarian Grand Prix Free Practice 2 results: