George Russell fastest for Mercedes in dry final practice before F1 sprint
Russell posted a 1m19.457s on soft Pirelli tyres to end second practice just 0.081s clear of Red Bull’s Sergio Perez in dry conditions at the ཧAutodromo Internationale Enzo e Dino Ferrari ahead of the first sprint𒀰 race of the 2022 season.
Charles Leclerc was third-quickest for Ferrari, 0.283s down on Russell’s benchmark time, while Lewis Hamilton also featured inside the top five for🥂 Mercedes in fourth, half a second off his teammate.
Alpin𓆏e’s Fernando Alonso was fifth ahead of the second Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, with reigning world champion Max Verstappen - who beat Leclerc to pole position for the sprint race in Friday qualifying - was seventh, almost a second off the pace.👍
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AlphaTauri pair Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly and Alfa Romeo’s F1 rookie Guanyu Zhou completed the rest of the🍃 top 10 order.
McLar🍷en endured a troubled FP2 as Daniel Ricciardo was stuck in the garage while the team inves🍷tigated an unspecified issue.
Teammate Lando Norris was restricted to just five laps of running and was sidelined for the majority of the session while McLaren worked on fixing⛦ a brake system issue.&▨nbsp;
Norris was able to rejoin the action for the closing minutes but ended up 18th and sl🅠owest of the drivers who se🐎t lap times.
Valtteri Bottas failed to make it out on track at all due t💞o an issue on his Alfa Romeo.
The first sprint r꧃ace of the season begins at 4.30pm local time (3.30pm BST), with early 2022 rivals Verstappen and Leclerc shari🐎ng the front row of the grid.
Points are on offer for the top eight positions witꦛh the🗹 results determining the grid for Sunday's grand prix.
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