F1 Live: 2024 Dutch Grand Prix second practice

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Here are the times at the end of the second practice session:
1. George Russell: 1’10.702
2. Oscar Piastri: 1’10.763
3. Lewis Hamilton: 1’10.813
4. Lando Norris: 1’10.961
5. Max Verstappen: 1’10.986
6. Fernando Alonso: 1’11.357
7. Yuki Tsunoda: 1’11.374
8. Kevin Magnussen: 1’11.430
9. Charles Leclerc: 1’11.443
10. Alexander Albon: 1’11.550
11. Lance Stroll: 1’11.576
12. Sergio Perez: 1’11.581
13. Daniel Ricciardo: 1’11.630
14. Pierre Gasly: 1’11.644
15. Logan Sargeant: 1’11.818
16. Zhou Guanyu: 1’11.934
17. Esteban Ocon: 1’12.061
18. Valtteri Bottas: 1’12.206
19. Carlos Sainz Jnr: 1’13.108
20. Nico Hulkenberg: 1’13.296

The chequered flag is out and Russell is still quickest head of Piastri and Hamilton. Report to follow.

Race control have noted two potential unsafe release incidents: Daniel Ricciardo Zhou Guanyu, and Alexander Albon and Lance Stroll.

Russell reports a “weird slide, exit of seven.”

The times are extremely close around this relatively short lap. Less than a second covering the top 14 – and that’s with Sainz and Hulkenberg not setting representative times. Any driver with a big deficit to their team mate is in a tough spot – notably Perez, seven places behind Verstappen and almost six-tenths off him.

Verstappen is the first driver to begin a race run, he’s on the mediums. Norris joins him.

Mercedes show what they can do: George Russell goes quickest, 0.061s up on Piastri, while Hamilton backs him up in third.

It’s a McLaren one-two now as Oscar Piastri goes quickest with a 1’10.763, almost two-tenths of a second quicker than his team mate. Yuki Tsunoda, Fernando Alonso and Kevin Magnussen have all beaten Perez’s time and are separating him from his team mate.

Carlos Sainz Jnr will take no further part in this session due to a gearbox problem on his Ferrari.

The Williams drivers slot in fourth and fifth, less than two-tenths of a second between them. Perez third behind Verstappen but he’s the best part of six-tenths of a second slower than him.

Soft tyre runs begin: Verstappen sets a 1’10.986 but Norris pips it by just two hundredths of a second.

The session has restarted.

Quickest times by team before the red flag:
Mercedes: 1’11.833
Red Bull: 1’12.131 (+0.298s)
Aston Martin: 1’12.384 (+0.551s)
McLaren: 1’12.453 (+0.62s)
Williams: 1’12.549 (+0.716s)
RB: 1’12.597 (+0.764s)
Ferrari: 1’12.670 (+0.837s)
Alpine: 1’12.952 (+1.119s)
Haas: 1’13.296 (+1.463s)
Sauber: 1’13.622 (+1.789s)

Red flag. Nico Hulkenberg has crashed at Tarzan. “I don’t know what happened there,” he says. “The rear completely locked up.”

Verstappen’s benchmark has been beaten by Lewis Hamilton who produces a 1’11.833 with his eighth lap on mediums.

Verstappen reports he “lost the rear” – indeed his Red Bull twitched at the exit of the super-fast Scheivlak corner and he ran a long way onto the kerb.

“Little bit strange” says George Russell as he locks up and runs wide at turn eight.

The same two drivers are at the top of the times as they were at the end of first practice, but in the reverse order. Max Verstappen is on top, seven tenths of a second ahead of Norris, and already quicker than the best time we saw earlier on.

Second practice is go and they’re not hanging about getting started. We’ve already got every car on-track, most on mediums but Yuki Tsunoda, Kevin Magnussen, Pierre Gasly and Alexander Albon preferring hards.

Is this going to be a strong weekend for McLaren? This is a high-downforce track like the Hungaroring, where they locked out the front row of the grid. The team has also brought its first significant upgrade since the Miami Grand Prix.

Valtteri Bottas will make his first appearance of the weekend in this session as Robert Shwartzman drove his car in first practice.

Lando Norris was quickest in the opening session which was held on a wet but drying track. Conditions are much better now, the sun is out and the track is much drier, so this should be a much more representative session.

Second practice for the 2024 Dutch Grand Prix is coming up next.