Charles Leclerc in Ferrari they are determined to bring the best to the qualifiers on Saturday starting position, and on Sunday as the first to cross the finish line. So the theory, so the plan, what the reality will be, and we will be smarter tomorrow and Sunday.
But judging by performances of the Reds and above all Leclerc in both trainings, we can confirm their role as favorites without a guilty conscience. This time in the second practice, both cars of the team from Maranella practically in his league. Behind the red Ferraris we find both Red Bull, who this time could not keep up with the pace of the F1-75 car.
And while it is George Russell despite the difficulties he managed to drive away again stimulating training, so it is Lewis Hamilton again this time he tortured and lagged behind his teammates good ones eight tenths of a second. Soon, however, today's training ended Daniel Ricciardo, which crashed into a protective fence in the pool area.
result
If Ferrari in the first practice he bet on the middleweight mixture, this time the car was mostly shod in tires with red mark. And it is with this mixture Charles Leclerc also drove his fastest lap in time 1: 12.656 minutes. He was just four hundredths of a second behind his teammate Carlos Sainz, who, in addition to Leclerc, was the only one to go below the border 1: 13 minutes. Monačan was behind behind last year's pole position with his second training time 2,5 seconds. It's for both Ferraris Red Bull already noted a respectable backlog. Sergio Perez he was just under tenths behind, fourth Max Verstappen but a good four tenths of a second.
In fifth place we find Lando Norris, and the sixth was George Russell, which was a good seven tenths behind. Seventh Pierre Gasly is the last racer to fall behind by less than a second, eighth Fernando Alonso has already recorded a lag of 1,2 seconds. He was a tenth more in ninth place Sebastian Vettel, and concludes ten Yuki tsunoda.
Od eleventh place onwards, the racers were ranked like this: Kevin Magnussen, Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, Alex Albon, Guanyu Zhou, Lance Stroll, Mick Schumacher, Esteba Or with, Nicholas Latifs and Daniel Ricciardo.
Incidents
There is also a turn in the second free practice Saint Devote had its own appeal. Just like on the first one, this time too a lot of racers viewfinder emergency exit due to braking errors. It’s chicaned by the pool first Sebastian Vettel routinely prevented slip your race car into a protective enclosure, and worse he did Daniel Ricciardo, which is in a fast right turn Chiron lost control of his car and crashed into the guardrail at high speed. Understandably, it was training interrupted, And the Australian took her away without consequences, which we can’t talk about for his race car.
before the end it is for longer yellow flag took care of Lewis Hamilton, which is in the area Mirabeau made a brake error and did not catch the turn. Luckily the speed here isn’t great, so it didn’t happen close meeting with protective fence. He had a slight encounter with the fence Lando Norris namely in the area Tobacco, but fortunately without consequences. He repeated his exercise in the same place as well George Russell. And if we started with Sainte Dovote, and let's finish. Before the end, they also found themselves in this small excursion zone Lando Norris in Lance stroll.
After training, he will have to defend the commissioners Kevin Magnussen, who cut the chicane in in the pool area and this at great speed, and he returned dangerously to the track just before Yuki Tsunodo. Team racer Haas could face the penalty of adding places in Sunday's race.
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