Also in Abu Dhabi were at the beginning of the second free practice the first minute was devoted to testing the tires for the new season. Responses so far they were not overly positive, but it should be added that the racing cars are of course not optimally set for the mentioned tires that will be used in season 2021. Today, the teams tested the mixture with code C4.
Advantage testing of new tires this time it was mainly in the fact that all 20 racers quickly got on the track and there was quite a bit of traffic. He set the best time on test tires otherwise Valtteri Bottas, which was still a second slower than 1: 37,8 Max Verstappen on FP1.
Commissioners this time they focused mainly on bend no. 21, where driving wide across the track was punished with by deleting the time current and next round. We have already seen the deletions in FP1, and it could be especially painful all together in qualifications.
Lewis Hamilton, who is returning after being infected with a new coronavirus, quickly threw a glove on the tires of the current season to all competitors and time 1: 36,4 swung to the top and was thus also faster than Max v FP1. He was quickly returned by a teammate Bottas with a time of 1: 36,2, followed by a few moments Alex Albon, who, however, were soon stripped of his time for wide output from the infamous bend no. 21.
Hamilton he repaired his best time at 1: 36,0 on a soft tire compound, but it was soon deleted for him, and a similar thing happened to some other drivers. Verstappen in third place is for Bottas he was eight tenths of a second behind, and even soft tires did not bring him a significant improvement. In the meantime, he took care of some action on the track gasly v AlphaTauri, which spun.
Then the racers devoted themselves mostly longrun, which is why we did not see any major shifts in the table. But we therefore experienced quite a bit fire and smoke. First, the engine hit her Russell, who returned to his Williams, and then it burned still Kimi Räikkönen's Alfin race car, which is also himself to the workers along the track helped with extinguishing.
After the end of the red flag, he faced more problems Lewis Hamiltonwho his W11 failed to get into gear. His mechanics started the car again and things settled down, and the last lap drove Hamilto off with a new steering wheel. In the end, the fastest time of the second free practice fell Bottas, before Hamilton, Verstappen in Albon.
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