In distinction to the 2 red-flag intervals and inclement climate that interrupted the sooner hour-long session, second follow was run within the dry regardless of earlier threats of continued rainfall.
The Williams duo kicked off the session with instances within the mid-1m19s, Logan Sargeant rising forward of Alex Albon, however the two had been shortly eclipsed by Lando Norris’s 1m19.044s as the sector sought to make up for the rain-affected misplaced working in FP1.
Sargeant moved into high spot as soon as extra with a 1m18.836s, though the Williams FW45 was bearing gentle tyres within the early phases of the session in opposition to the rest largely utilizing the mediums.
He remained on the high of the instances for the following quarter-hour as the sector continued their medium tyre explorations, and a lap on gentle tyres from FP1 crasher Sergio Perez was not sufficient to topple the American from his perch.
Max Verstappen’s first lap on the red-walled compound was a lot nearer, however was 0.075s away from Sargeant’s benchmark. As a substitute, it was Albon who managed to knock his team-mate off the highest, having extracted a 1m18.377s from a set of medium tyres.
Albon’s reign over the session didn’t final so long as his team-mate’s because the gentle tyre runs started to accentuate; Lance Stroll and Nico Hulkenberg briefly held positions on high of the timing boards earlier than Yuki Tsunoda fired his approach to high spot with a 1m17.934s.
A 1m17.701s for Norris on softs introduced him above Tsunoda, the place he remained because the session crept over the half-hour mark. The Briton’s time withstood an effort from Alpine’s Pierre Gasly, however Leclerc then swept to the quickest time at that stage with a 1m17.686s – a scant 0.015s away from Norris.
Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing RB19
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Additional efforts from the Pink Bulls didn’t yield any enhancements in tempo, though Verstappen had persevered with the identical set of softs within the opening 45 minutes of the session. Perez within the meantime had picked up new mediums, however this didn’t yield an enchancment in lap time earlier than his retreat to the pitlane.
The remainder of the sector had settled into their longer runs of their efforts to give attention to Sunday’s race, with no additional enhancements in time because the drivers stretched their decreased allocation of Pirelli tyres to their limits.
Thus, Norris couldn’t provide Leclerc a riposte in direction of the top of the session, as Gasly accomplished the highest three over former team-mate Tsunoda.
Esteban Ocon was fifth quickest, though his Alpine workforce had arguably taken its eye off the ball when releasing him from the storage halfway by the session; the Frenchman’s mechanic ushered him out of its holding bay, inflicting Leclerc to verify up as he was within the pitlane.
Hulkenberg was sixth quickest, a shade behind Ocon’s finest, as Valtteri Bottas positioned his Alfa Romeo seventh within the FP2 timing order. Fernando Alonso ended Friday with the eighth-best time, as Zhou Guanyu and Carlos Sainz accomplished the highest 10.
Verstappen’s finest was solely ok for eleventh, finishing solely 18 laps – solely Perez with 13 excursions of the circuit accomplished fewer. Mercedes didn’t star within the session both, and Lewis Hamilton and George Russell had been sixteenth and twentieth.
The returning Daniel Ricciardo put his AlphaTauri in 14th, behind Stroll and Albon, and Kevin Magnussen accomplished a high 15 that match inside a 0.818s bracket.
F1 Hungarian GP: FP2 outcomes