Piastri heads Norris for McLaren 1-2 at Bahrain GP FP2
11th April 2025McLaren was fastest in the second hour of practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix with Oscar Piastri pipping teammate Lando Norris on the country’s international circuit.
Feature image credit: McLaren Racing
Several drivers returned to their usual seats, having missed out on FP1 thanks to six teams using their first FP1 rookie sessions of the year.
George Russell (Mercedes), Max Verstappen (Red Bull), Carlos Sainz (Williams), Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), Oliver Bearman (Haas) and Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), all returned to their usual seats for the second hour of practice.
It wasn’t without issue as Alonso had a steering wheel problem early on, which impacted the Spaniard’s first hour of running around the Bahrain International Circuit. Replays showed that Alonso’s steering wheel had switched off before it came away from its locking mechanism. The Spaniard quickly put the wheel back onto its mount before continuing.
How did FP2 end?
Piastri was the fastest driver out on track as the sun set in Bahrain with a time of 1m 30.505s, 0.154s ahead of his teammate Norris. Mercedes’ George Russell completed the top three, half a second off McLaren’s Australian.
Leclerc and Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, rounded out the top five, in fourth and fifth. The latter had a better run of his two practice hours, having missed much of the opening hour thanks to a water leak.
Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls), Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari), Bearman and Sainz completed the top 10 from sixth to 10th, respectively.
Albon was eight-hundredths of a second slower than his teammate, Sainz, as the London-born driver topped the bottom 10, in 11th, ahead of Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) and Gabriel Bortoleto (Kick Sauber) in 12th and 13th.
Alpine’s Jack Doohan and Alonso completed the top 15, in 14th and 15th, the latter 1.3s off the pace of Piastri.
Esteban Ocon, Haas, led the bottom five down in 16th ahead of the Alpine and Red Bull of Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda, respectively. This left Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll and Kick Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg to round out the 20-car field, in 19th and 20th.
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