Spanish Grand Prix 2016 Qualifying: Results, Times from Friday’s F1 Practice

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Published: May 13, 2016

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World championship leader Nico Rosberg headed Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen in the second practice session at the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday, with his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton finishing third fastest.

Sebastian Vettel and team-mate Raikkonen were faster than Rosberg and Hamilton in the first practice session, but the Mercedes drivers improved in the afternoon when they ran on the soft tyres. 

Meanwhile, 18-year-old Max Verstappen was sixth-fastest in the morning behind team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in his first outing for Red Bull following his promotion from Toro Rosso in place of Daniil Kvyat.

Read on for a recap of the morning's action in Spain.

 

FP2 Recap Here is the classification from the second practice session:



The session was halted early on in Barcelona as Renault's Jolyon Palmer drew a red flag after a puncture to his left-rear tyre.

Once back under way, Hamilton set a fastest time on the medium tyres before he was eclipsed at the top of the timesheets by Raikkonen on softs.

Rosberg then took P1 as he ran his first laps of the day on the soft tyres and held on to the top spot until the end of the session.

In Hamilton's first run on softs towards the end of the session, he had to settle for third after having trouble in the third sector.

Carlos Sainz Jr. claimed an excellent fifth in the Toro Rosso, with Red Bull's Ricciardo in sixth and team-mate Verstappen in eighth.

McLaren's Fernando Alonso did well to go seventh fastest despite having returned to the garage with a plank problem during the session, while his team-mate Jenson Button also had some issues while finishing 12th, per Formula 1:



As ever with the second practice session, many of the drivers took the opportunity to put in some long running. Kyvat managed 44 laps in...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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