Second Free Practice Results 2022 Japanese F1 Grand Prix
Event: Japanese Grand Prix
Track: Suzuka Circuit
Sergio Perez driving the RB18 practice for the 2022 F1 Grand Prix of Japan (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
Weather: wet 15.9°C
Tarmac: wet 19.0°C
Humidity : 95%
Wind : 0.6 m/s N
Pressure: 1007.2 bar
The second practice before the 2022 Japanese F1 Grand Prix was also wet, just like the first practice three hours earlier. This session was half an hour longer than normal to try and do some tyre testing for Pirelli. Due to the wet conditions it could not be used for that purpose.
Mick Schumacher was not able to driver this FP2 session. The Haas team was still working on building up a new chassis after Schumacher crashed the previous one in earlier practice. The first driver that got out was Williams driver Nicholas Latifi. The Canadian driver clocked a 1:56..471 min on the full wet tyres.
Not many drivers came out in the first half an hour. George Russell was the first to try the intermediate tyres and was 2.5 sec. quicker right away than his teammate Lewis Hamilton. In his next lap Russell even cut off 1.2 sec. of his own time.
The top 10 order at this moment was 1. Russell (1:46.891 min | Inters), 2. Hamilton (+2.598s | Wet), 3. Sainz (+2.724s | Wet), 4. Norris (+3.577s | Wet), 5. Tsunoda (+3.690s | Wet), 6. Gasly (+3.750s | Wet), 7. Ricciardo (+3.845s | Wet), 8. Zhou (+4.322s | Wet), 9. Albon (+4.473 | Wet) & 10. Latifi (+5.342s | Wet).
A lot of other drivers now switched to the intermediate tyres and Yuki Tsunoda and Chalres Leclerc were going off, but was able to go on. A few moments later Verstappen also got out of the pits on a set of intermediate tyres. The Red Bull driver topped the timesheet after his first timed lap with a 1:43.571 min, but he was quickly bettered by Hamilton by 0.03s.
After one hour of practice Russell again had set the fastest lap time with a 1:41.935 min, followed by Hamilton on 0.235s and Verstappen on P3 on 0.851s. It now also was raining a lot less.
1:27.785 min was the quickest lap time in FP2 of the last time in 2019 driven by Valtteri Bottas in the Mercedes.
FP2 Times Table 2022 Japanese GP
| P | No | Driver | Team | Time | 1st Gap | Laps | Tyres |
| 1 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 1:41,935 | 23 | ????Inters | |
| 2 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:42,170 | +0,235s | 22 | ????Inters |
| 3 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:42,786 | +0,851s | 24 | ????Inters |
| 4 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | 1:42,834 | +0,899s | 26 | ????Inters |
| 5 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 1:43,187 | +1,252s | 17 | ????Inters |
| 6 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 1:43,204 | +1,269s | 23 | ????Inters |
| 7 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine | 1:43,533 | +1,598s | 14 | ????Inters |
| 8 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo | 1:43,733 | +1,798s | 20 | ????Inters |
| 9 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 1:43,884 | +1,949s | 13 | ????Inters |
| 10 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Alfa Romeo | 1:44,525 | +2,590s | 17 | ????Inters |
| 11 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:44,709 | +2,774s | 10 | ????Inters |
| 12 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | 1:44,962 | +3,027s | 16 | ????Inters |
| 13 | 23 | Alex Albon | Williams | 1:45,039 | +3,104s | 15 | ????Inters |
| 14 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | 1:45,257 | +3,322s | 27 | ????Inters |
| 15 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | 1:45,261 | +3,326s | 24 | ????Inters |
| 16 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 1:45,885 | +3,950s | 11 | ????Inters |
| 17 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren | 1:46,030 | +4,095s | 9 | ????Inters |
| 18 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 1:46,776 | +4,841s | 21 | ????Inters |
| 19 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | 1:47,109 | +5,174s | 13 | ????Inters |
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