Al Zubair secures P22 double pole SPORTS 2424 Saturday, April 7, 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix Raikkonen tops second practice

Kimi Raikkonen during the second practice

Manama PRACTICE 1 RESULTS PRACTICE 2 RESULTS errari Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen topped POS DRIVER CAR TIME GAP LAPS POS DRIVER CAR TIME GAP LAPS Fthe second free practice 1 RED BULL 1:31.060 14 1 Kimi Räikkönen FERRARI 1:29.817 32 session for the Bahrain Grand 2 MERCEDES 1:31.364 +0.304s 24 2 FERRARI 1:29.828 +0.011s 37 Prix, but risks a penalty after pulling off with a loose wheel. 3 Kimi Räikkönen FERRARI 1:31.458 +0.398s 18 3 Valtteri Bottas MERCEDES 1:30.380 +0.563s 31 Raikkonen was third 4 Sebastian Vettel FERRARI 1:31.470 +0.410s 17 4 MERCEDES 1:30.472 +0.655s 32 fastest in the early running, 5 Lewis Hamilton MERCEDES 1:32.272 +1.212s 21 5 Max Verstappen RED BULL 1:30.745 +0.928s 32 behind team-mate Sebastian Vettel and Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas using the soft loose front-right wheel with circuit. final sector on that lap. him just ahead of team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne to eighth compound Pirellis. 14 minutes remaining. Bottas was third, 0.552s Hamilton earlier had an off and FP1 pacesetter Daniel place. Raikkonen was the first Stewards will investigate slower than Vettel, although at the first corner after locking Ricciardo, who was a further was 11th driver to bolt on the super- the incident after the session, Mercedes team-mate Lewis up on his first set of tyres, six-thousandths of a second fastest for Haas ahead of the soft Pirellis to complete a and do have the power to Hamilton should have been running onto the asphalt back. second Renault of Carlos qualifying simulation, setting issue grid penalties for unsafe ahead of him. runoff before re-joining. Best of the rest was Renault Sainz Jr and the Force Indias a best lap of 1m28.817s on his releases in practice sessions. On his fastest lap, Hamilton Red Bull driver Max driver Nico Hulkenberg, who of and Sergio initial flier. Raikkonen’s super-soft time was on target to go third but Verstappen was fifth fastest, was 1.403s off the pace. Perez. (Autosport) Raikkonen went on to do was never beaten, although was held up by Haas driver but complained of a lack of A surprise challenger long-run work, but having Vettel ended up just 0.011s in the final power and was disappointed for that position was Toro done a lengthy stint on the behind on his qualifying right-hander. with his qualifying simulation Rosso-Honda driver Pierre super-softs he bolted on softs simulation after setting a Hamilton wound up 0.655s as he ended up 0.928s off the Gasly, who put in a lap just and was sent back out, only strong pace in the second and off the pace, but was over three- pace. 0.012s slower to beat McLaren to stop on his outlap with a third sectors of the Sakhir tenths off the best time set in the But that was enough to put pairing and

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