Bahrain Grand Prix: Fernando Alonso edges out Red Bulls in second practice

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Max Verstappen's Red Bull connected way successful Bahrain

Fernando Alonso pipped pre-season favourites Red Bull to acceptable the gait successful signifier astatine the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The Aston Martin operator was 0.169 seconds quicker than satellite champion Max Verstappen, with the 2nd Red Bull of Sergio Perez 3rd fastest.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was 4th and Lewis Hamilton the fastest Mercedes successful eighth, 0.636secs disconnected the pace.

Nico Hulkenberg's Haas, Lance Stroll's Aston Martin and Pierre Gasly's Alpine filled the gaps up of Hamilton.

McLaren's Lando Norris was ninth fastest up of the Alfa Romeo of Zhou Guanyu. Hamilton's team-mate George Russell was down successful 13th and the 2nd Ferrari of Carlos Sainz 14th aft making an mistake connected his fastest lap.

The race-simulation times aboriginal successful the session, erstwhile teams tally connected dense tanks to justice long-run pace, underlined wherefore the paddock believes Red Bull are successful a league of their ain heading into the 2023 season.

Verstappen was fastest connected these, comfortably up of Perez, and no-one other looked to beryllium wrong a 2nd a thigh connected mean of the Dutchman's pace.

The league was comparatively incident-free. McLaren's rookie operator Oscar Piastri had a large lock-up erstwhile helium saw Stroll's Aston Martin successful beforehand of him precocious astatine the archetypal corner, and Alonso abandoned a contention tally connected the mean tyre erstwhile helium locked up entering Turn 10.

The brushed tyre was the preferred tyre for each drivers connected the contention runs, suggesting it volition beryllium utilized by astir for the commencement of the race.

More to follow.

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