Pierre Gasly’s alpine again impressed by finishing third from Russell, Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, the driver of Ferrari complaining of braking problems with his SF-25 with his teammate Lewis Hamilton throughout the session.
The Briton, who finally finished 11th, had a hard time tamed his Ferrari, which included a huge moment of survor in the first chicane on his first flight round, while the seven times world champion has also found traffic on several occasions.
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His replacement in Mercedes, Kimi Antonelli, also had a close call with Tsunoda on the race at the bottom of the hill to Rivazza 1, affirming by the radio “which was super dangerous of the Red Bull”.
The young Italian was left in 18th, while Hadjar finished the session as a recruit of seventh place despite his absence in front of Tsunoda while Albon and Sainz finished the top 10.
Haas d’Ollie Bearman finished 12th in the return of Colapinto, who also went wheel with Verstappen during the session at the exit of Tosa.
Alonso was the main Aston Martin in 14th by Liam Lawson and Gabriel Bortoleto, the driver of Kick Sauber having released the red flag in FP1, with Lance Stroll 17th. Nico Hulkenberg finished in front of Esteban Ocon, with the Haas Driver Last and 1.127s of the session of the Piastri session.
The teams will come together during the night before the third and last training session on Saturday, which takes place from 1230 p.m. local time before qualifying later during the day.
