Hamilton begins to squeeze the Ferrari and leads the second morning session of the Test in Baréin

The British pilot Lewis Hamilton has been the fastest this Thursday, with his new Ferrari, in the morning session of the second day of the official pre -season test of Formula 1, in the International Circuit of Baréin, with a better time of 1: 29,379 with which he surpassed the British George Russell (Mercedes) and the Spanish Carlos Sainz, third with his Williams.

In the third four-hour session of these official training on the layout of Sakhir Lewis Hamilton, the best chrono of the inaugural day and, in a few laps, SF-25 began to shoot at 1:29 with the soft compound, with practically 4 tenths to his ex-partner in Mercedes George Russell, improved.

If yesterday the rain threatened with four drops, this time there was a brief but more intense rain almost in the Ecuador of the batch, which led to a track break, with few pilots testing the wet gums. After that period of little activity, there were teams that chose to look for long batches, such as Aston Martin with the Spanish two -time champion at the wheel, and others that, such as Ferrari or Mercedes, began to look for faster times.

In the absence of a few minutes to the end of the session, it surprised to see the Red Bull garage with the doors descended, with some possible mechanical problem in the car driven by the Neozyre Liam Lawson, which ended eighth. This, and seeing a small touch between Oscar Piastri (McLaren) and Nico Hulkenberg (Kick Sauber) was of the uninteresting, by unexpected, which was seen in this morning session.

It also surprises Carlos Sainz in third position with a Williams that he carried as ‘shoes’ to the hard compound C2, so those 711 thousandth losses with respect to Hamilton could be less of having taken the intermediate, softer tires (C3), which led the rest to mark their best records.

French Pierre Gasly (Alpine) was fourth in the time table, between the two Spanish pilots. Fernando Alonso, who finished fifth to 1,321 seconds from Hamilton, was able to shoot more than on the opening day and this Friday, in his last round, he will aspire to improve the chrono with a Aston Martin who continues to trust the improvements that Adrian Newey can contribute as soon as he reaches the team.

They completed the ‘Top 10’ the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda (Racing Bulls), sixth to 1.4 from seven times world champion, with the Australian Oscar Piestri (McLaren) seventh, the neozygous lawson lawson eighth, the German Nico Hulkenberg (Kick Sauber) ninth and the French 3.6 seconds from Hamilton.