Hungarian Grand Prix: Charles Leclerc fastest in Hungarian GP second practice

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Ferrari's Charles Leclerc acceptable the gait successful Friday signifier astatine the Hungarian Grand Prix which offered fewer clues arsenic to the existent competitory picture.

Leclerc was 0.015 seconds quicker than McLaren's Lando Norris but satellite champion Max Verstappen was lone 11th fastest and Mercedes adjacent to the back.

The Alpines of Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon were 3rd and 5th fastest, sandwiching Yuki Tsunoda's Alpha Tauri.

Daniel Ricciardo, returning to Formula 1 with Alpha Tauri, was 14th.

The Australian was 0.451secs slower than team-mate Tsunoda.

A caller attack to tyre allocation for the play seems to person changed the mode teams approached practice.

The fig of sets of tyres disposable to each operator has been reduced, and they are required to usage antithetic compounds for each 3 parts of qualifying - hards successful the archetypal session, mean successful the second, and softs successful the last apical 10 shootout.

The accustomed signifier of set-up runs, followed by qualifying simulation and past contention simulation was not followed by each teams.

Red Bull and Mercedes, for example, seemed not to bash qualifying simulation runs, astatine slightest not typical ones.

As good arsenic Verstappen successful 11th, his team-mate Sergio Perez, whose play got disconnected to a atrocious commencement with a clang connected his archetypal thigh successful archetypal practice, was down successful 18th, and Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell 16th and 20th.

There were immoderate race-simulation runs aboriginal successful the session, though.

Mercedes, Aston Martin and McLaren chose the mean tyres, and Norris appeared to beryllium the fastest, followed by Alonso - who was eighth fastest wide connected a azygous thigh - and Hamilton.

Red Bull and Ferrari chose the brushed tyres for their contention runs, and though Leclerc started strongly, Verstappen was comfortably quicker implicit a bid of laps.

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