F1 Austrian GP LIVE: Carlos Sainz takes the first spot in FP2 session: Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz takes the first spot in the FP2 session after leapfrogging his teammate Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen at the Red Bull ring. Meanwhile, Alpine showed a great race pace ahead of the sprint race as Alonso and Ocon clocked good lap times. Moreover, Lewis Hamilton could only finish ninth overall after missing more than 40 minutes of the session. Follow Formula 1 Updates and Austrian Grand Prix Live on InsideSport.IN.
Carlos Sainz after winning the first race of his F1 career last week at Silverstone continued his great form and took the second practice session at the Red Bull ring. He was followed by his teammate Charles Leclerc in the second spot as Ferrari showed great resilience at the home of Red Bull. Max Verstappen, who dominated the FP2 session dropped down positions and could only manage to finish third overall.
And that’s #FP2 all done ✅
Next up is the #F1 Sprint 👀#essereFerrari 🔴 #AustrianGP pic.twitter.com/dgTfQfr9Eg
— Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) July 9, 2022
Both the Alpine drivers showed great race pace in the FP2 session as Fernando Alonso took home the fourth spot followed by his teammate Esteban Ocon in the fifth position. Meanwhile, Sergio Perez who will start today’s sprint race from the thirteenth spot could only manage sixth place overall.
🏁 END OF FP2 🏁
TOP 10
Sainz
Leclerc
Verstappen
Alonso
Ocon
Perez
Russell
Bottas
Hamilton
Norris#AustrianGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/nGgIbMSYjM— Formula 1 (@F1) July 9, 2022
Massive effort to get both cars out on track in FP2 💪 Work still to do, but bring on the Sprint 🙌 pic.twitter.com/Ag1nMajhkP
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) July 9, 2022
Mercedes’ George Russell finished seventh overall as he too missed some part of the FP2 session after crashing and damaging his car yesterday in the Qualifying session. He was followed by Valtteri Bottas in the eighth spot and Lewis Hamilton claimed the ninth spot overall. McLaren’s Lando Norris had to settle for a tenth place finish as the team showed improvements from yesterday.
Amazing effort 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Lewis is out on track! pic.twitter.com/rCeVU6umCO
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) July 9, 2022
Hamilton heads out on track for the final 15 minutes#AustrianGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/qMUZ5pt5BG
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 9, 2022
Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll managed to take the eleventh spot and was followed by Pierre Gasly in the twelfth position. The veteran driver Sebastian Vettel had to settle for a thirteenth place finish and was followed by Guanyu Zhou in the fourteenth position.
P8 for Valtteri with 1:09.251; P14 for Zhou with 1:09.665 as Fap2 comes to an end.#AustrianGP pic.twitter.com/sGMFoOEDIl
— Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN (@alfaromeoorlen) July 9, 2022
Haas’ Mick Schumacher dropped positions and saw himself bowing out of the top ten as he had to settle for a fifteenth-place finish. He was followed by Alex Albon in the sixteenth spot as he too dropped positions and saw himself out of the top ten. Then came the Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo who claimed the seventeenth spot as he didn’t have a good day in the office today.
Practice before the #F1Sprint. 🏁
A solid number of laps for the team. Now, it’s heads down and full focus on the rest of the weekend. #AustrianGP 🇦🇹 pic.twitter.com/NOpnpL2s20
— McLaren (@McLarenF1) July 9, 2022
Kevin Magnussen had to settle for an eighteenth spot and was followed by Yuki Tsunoda in the nineteenth position. Lastly, it was Nicholas Latifi who settled for the twentieth spot.
