Hamilton fastest after morning session on day 2 of F1 testing 2025
27th February 2025Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton was fastest in the morning session on day two of Formula 1’s pre-season test, beating Mercedes’ George Russell and Williams’ Carlos Sainz.
Feature image credit: Scuderia Ferrari
The end of the morning session, on day two, marked the halfway point of the three-day pre-season test in Bahrain for Formula 1 after a total of 12 hours completed. 12 hours are left to go over this afternoon and Friday.
It wasn’t a straightforward session although Hamilton showed straight away as rain had fallen (yes, rain) which impacted running for the teams who had not brought wet-weather tyres.
Only Haas and Aston Martin brought wet tyres with both teams bringing intermediates, the former one set and three sets for the latter. Haas was also the only team to bring a set of extreme-wet tyres but these were not required.
Haas, with Esteban Ocon at the helm, was the only one to go out on the intermediates. After an hour, the weather shifted again and it allowed the other drivers to go back out on track with their dry-weather tyres.
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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
At the end of the morning, Hamilton reset the benchmark pace after the 10 drivers returned to the circuit when the rain had passed. The seven-time world champion set the fastest lap of the test so far with a 1:29.379.
Russell and Sainz completed the top three, in second and third respectively. Gasly and Alonso rounded out the top five, in fourth and fifth, over one second behind Hamilton’s best time with Tsuonda and Piastri in sixth and seventh.
Lawson, Hulkenberg and Ocon completed the morning runners down in eighth, ninth and 10th.
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