McLaren’s Lando Norris made it a Friday clear sweep by topping Components 1’s second observe session on the Dutch Grand Prix, whereas Lance Stroll suffered a heavy crash within the Aston Martin.
Norris bested Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso and team-mate Oscar Piastri on Zandvoort’s 4.226km seaside circuit in a session derailed by pink flags and different minor incidents.
The session was halted early on for a large shunt by Aston Martin driver Stroll, who appeared to hold an excessive amount of velocity into the excessive Flip 3 banking and crashed into the skin wall, destroying each the entrance and rear right-side corners of his AMR25.
On the time of the stoppage Haas’ Oliver Bearman was present in a uncommon lead with a 1m11.113s lap on softs, forward of Norris and Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto.
However because the session resumed on the 22-minute mark, the window to seek out additional enhancements rapidly shut once more as a consequence of a stricken Racing Bulls automobile of Isack Hadjar, who reported a lack of energy. Hadjar was requested to cease his automobile on monitor, bringing out a Digital Security Automobile which was cleared with simply half of the one-hour session remaining.
Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg shot to the highest because the session went again to inexperienced, marginally eclipsing Bearman’s time earlier than George Russell, Alonso and Norris all cycled by way of to the lead.
Lewis Hamilton suffered a spin as he misplaced the rear of his Ferrari on the exit of Flip 9, however then rallied to take sixth behind Max Verstappen.
Alex Albon then triggered a second pink flag as his first soft-tyre lap ended within the Flip 1 gravel lure, having outbraked himself and tapped the wall along with his entrance wing.
The session was restarted as soon as extra with 16 minutes on the clock, with the remaining drivers eager to salvage as a lot monitor time as attainable, however additional soft-tyre runs had been few and much between as many drivers tried to get some semblance of a future happening both medium or onerous rubber.
It meant Norris’ main time remained untouched, with Alonso a shock second after he and Stroll had additionally featured on the entrance in FP1. Piastri was third forward of Russell, Verstappen and Hamilton, whereas Yuki Tsunoda recovered from a troublesome first observe session with seventh in FP2.
Charles Leclerc was eighth within the second Ferrari adopted by Alpine’s Franco Colapinto, with Hulkenberg rounding out the highest 10.
Third observe continues on Saturday at 11:30 native Dutch time, with qualifying following at 15:00 CEST.
F1 Dutch GP outcomes – FP2
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