Hamilton currently fastest in day 2 of F1 2025 testing
27th February 2025Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton has put in the fastest lap time on the board at the halfway point of the morning test of Formula 1’s pre-season testing, in Bahrain.
Feature image credit: Scuderia Ferrari
After eight hours of testing, the action continued once again at the Bahrain International Circuit. However, it wasn’t a clean morning for the 10 drivers regarding the weather.
After an hour of running, and reports of rain, the weather had shifted and it was not suitable for dry-weather tyres. This meant most of the teams remained in their garages as they waited for the weather to pass.
The only exception to this was Haas’ Esteban Ocon who went out on the intermediate tyres. Haas and Aston Martin were the only two teams who brought the intermediate tyres.
Haas brought one set of inters, plus a set of extreme wets, and Aston brought three sets of intermediates.
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Morning runners
McLaren – Oscar Piastri
Ferrari – Lewis Hamilton
Red Bull – Liam Lawson
Mercedes – George Russell
Aston Martin – Fernando Alonso
Alpine – Pierre Gasly
Haas – Esteban Ocon
Racing Bulls – Yuki Tsunoda
Williams – Carlos Sainz
Sauber – Nico Hulkenberg
Hamilton set the benchmark pace within the first half of the session, before the weather changed, as the seven-time world champion set a one-minute 30.080 seconds.
Sainz and Russell completed the top three, the latter a maximum of two-tenths off the pace. Gasly and Lawson completed the top five with Lawson over a second behind Hamilton’s best time.
Hulkenberg, Alonso, Ocon and Tsunoda occupied sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth respectively. This left Piastri to complete the top 10, and the 10 morning runners.
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