2nd Free Practice Times 2020 Styrian F1 GP
F1 Race Event: Styrian Grand Prix
Race Track: Red Bull Ring
Both Red Bull RB16 cars in the pits
Weather: dry 32.0°C
Tarmac: dry 50.2°C
Humidity : 32.4%
Wind : 0.9 m/s E
Pressure: 936.0 bar
The 2nd free practice started a few minutes later, due to the qualifying session of F2 took a lot longer than expected. Because the weather forecast promises thunderstorms for tomorrow. the second free practice for the first ever Styrian GP of this Sunday was very important. When the weather is to bad to drive the times of this second free practice will be used for Sunday's start grid.
15 minutes into this session the FP2 was stopped after Daniel Ricciardo had a huge crash in high speed turn 9. He lost control of his Renault and hit the tyre barriers to significant damage the rear wing. Replays show he carried too much speed into turn 9 that caused the rear of the car to break out which he could not correct in time.
Half an hour into the session all drivers were getting the hang of it and the quickest time was improved constantly. We also heard Max Verstappen complaining about losing power when he shifts up above 4th gear.
Kevin Magnussen was again able to drive the Haas on the Styrian circuit. His car had power unit issues in FP1 that forced the Danish driver to sit out the whole first session.
The track limits of turn 9 & 10 were asking a lot patientes from the drivers. Race control had to delete several quickest lap times of drivers who didn't manage to keep their car on the black stuff. The track limit rule is that the have to keep 2 wheels on the red/white curbstones.
Both Racing Point drivers topped the leaderboard until halfway the session. Perez was quickest with a 1:03.877 until Bottas drove a 1:03.703 min in the Mercedes. That time was soon bettered by Verstappen to 1:03.660 min
The quickest lap time of last week in FP2 on the same track with cooler weather was 1:04,304 min, driven by Lewis Hamilton with the Mercedes W11 on soft tyres.
FP2 Lap Times 2020 Styrian GP
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Lap Time | 1st Gap | Laps | Tyres |
| 1 | 33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:03.660 | 27 | Soft | |
| 2 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:03.703 | +0.043s | 35 | Soft |
| 3 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Racing Point | 1:03.877 | +0.217s | 43 | Soft |
| 4 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Racing Point | 1:04.241 | +0.581s | 43 | Soft |
| 5 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | McLaren | 1:04.333 | +0.673s | 44 | Soft |
| 6 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:04.348 | +0.688s | 26 | Soft |
| 7 | 23 | Alex Albon | Red Bull | 1:04.437 | +0.777s | 28 | Soft |
| 8 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 1:04.541 | +0.881s | 30 | Soft |
| 9 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:04.706 | +1.046s | 34 | Soft |
| 10 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Renault | 1:04.746 | +1.086s | 32 | Soft |
| 11 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | 1:04.757 | +1.097s | 36 | Soft |
| 12 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | AlphaTauri | 1:05.050 | +1.390s | 33 | Soft |
| 13 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Alfa Romeo | 1:05.152 | +1.492s | 23 | Soft |
| 14 | 99 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo | 1:05.365 | +1.705s | 35 | Soft |
| 15 | 63 | George Russell | Williams | 1:05.588 | +1.928s | 33 | Soft |
| 16 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:05.613 | +1.953s | 39 | Medium |
| 17 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | 1:05.655 | +1.995s | 48 | Soft |
| 18 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 1:05.790 | +2.130s | 36 | Soft |
| 19 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas | 1:06.096 | +2.436s | 37 | Soft |
| 20 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Renault | no time | 0,000 | 2 | - |
FP2 Highlights Styrian F1 GP
You can see the highlights of the Styrian FP2 in this video:
An all-action practice session 💪
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