Lewis Hamilton topped the times ahead of his Mercedes team-mate George Russell in Thursday’s second practice for this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix as defending champion Max Verstappen struggled to sixth.
In an unexpected surge of pace that was not expected following their two years of struggle in the ground-effect era, the ‘Silver Arrows’’ were dominant ahead of two-time champion Fernando Alonso of Aston Martin.
Hamilton clocked a best lap of 1min 30.374sec to outpace Russell by two-tenths under the lights at the Bahrain International Circuit at Sakhir.