The Mexican Red Bull driver improved in free seconds after an accident; Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton dominated the session
The Mexican Czech Pérez from Red Bull recovered from an accident in the first trialended up far from the Finn, however Valtteri Bottas and the British Lewis Hamilton, leader and defender of the Formula 1 World Championship title, who retained the first and second position Mercedes in the second free practice of the Grand Prix of Emilia Romagna
Dutch threat mitigated Max Verstappen after five rounds because of a problem in your Red Bull Bottas Y Hamilton the first and second places were redistributed, separated by only 10 thousandths.
Bottas he retained first place in the morning shift with a time of 1: 15,551 in the best of his 25 afternoon laps. Hamilton He gave up just 0.010 seconds ahead of his teammate.
In Free Training 2, the Frenchman took third place Pierre Gasly, from the team AlphaTauri (+0.078), followed by Ferrari from Madrid Carlos Sainz (+0.283) and the Monegask Charles Leclerc (+0.820), which ended the session before the time when it crashed against the protections.
Despite the spectacular nature of his accident, at a time when “he pushed a lot”, Leclerc he reported on the radio that he was “fine”. The competition management decided that Free 2 had to end at that point, with just over 3 minutes to play.
Mexican Checo Pérez left his incident behind in the first team and finished sixth, 0.860 seconds from Bottas
The Japanese Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri), the British Lando Norris McLaren) and the Canadian Lance Stroll Aston Martin) completed the top 10.
Spanish was omitted there Fernando Alonso, thirteenth at the end of the day in Imola (Italy), after his teammate, the French Esteban Ocon, and the Canadian Nicholas latifi (Williams).