Formula 1: Fernando Alonso tops rain-affected Australian GP second practice

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Fernando Alonso acceptable the aboriginal gait successful 2nd signifier astatine the Australian Grand Prix earlier rainfall affected the bulk of the session.

Verstappen topped the archetypal session, tally successful adust conditions, up of Mercedes operator Lewis Hamilton.

Hamilton was lone 13th successful the second, with team-mate George Russell fourth.

Hamilton's dry-weather moving was curtailed by a determination to pit for set-up changes successful the beforehand suspension.

Verstappen besides appeared to beryllium unhappy with his car equilibrium successful the dry, the satellite champion moving wide implicit the writer astatine the archetypal chicane earlier mounting his fastest time.

It was the continuation of a scrappy time for Verstappen, who leads the satellite title by 1 constituent from team-mate Sergio Perez aft the archetypal 2 races of the season.

Perez's attempts to acceptable a speedy clip successful the 2nd league were torpedoed by slower cars getting successful his mode connected each of his laps and helium ended up seventh fastest.

The forecast is for adust upwind for the weekend's running.

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What happened successful the archetypal session?

In the archetypal session, Verstappen mislaid power of his Red Bull astatine Turn Four towards the extremity of the hour's moving connected his archetypal thigh connected a 2nd acceptable of soft-compound tyres.

Verstappen was 0.433 seconds quicker than Hamilton successful that session.

Perez besides mislaid power of his car connected his tally connected brushed tyres successful the archetypal session, successful his lawsuit astatine Turn Three. He ended up with 3rd fastest clip with a thigh acceptable connected mean tyres.

Team main Christian Horner admitted successful the interruption betwixt the sessions that neither Red Bull operator had been blessed with their car successful the archetypal hour.

Alonso was 4th fastest successful the archetypal session, up of the Ferraris of Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.

McLaren's Lando Norris was seventh and eighth successful the 2 sessions.

Piastri impresses successful the wet

Norris' team-mate, the Australian rookie Oscar Piastri, was consistently accelerated successful the bedewed conditions aboriginal successful the league erstwhile galore drivers explored the way connected intermediate tyres.

Williams operator Alex Albon acceptable the fastest clip connected intermediate tyres arsenic the way began to adust towards the extremity of the session.

The archetypal league was punctuated by a 10-minute reddish emblem caused by the nonaccomplishment of F1's GPS system, which tracks car presumption connected track.

Governing assemblage the FIA said the league needed to beryllium stopped "for information reasons with teams not being capable to show car presumption and closing speed".