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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time in the second test session of the Bahrain Grand Prix, Round 15 of the 2020 Formula 1 World Championship season, beating his Red Bull opponent Max Verstappen.
This experience session was of great importance in the Bahrain Grand Prix, as it is the only session that takes place during the qualifying session and the race, under the spotlight of the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir.
However, for the Mercedes team, a lot of attention has been paid to testing the tires for next year, with the first part of the testing being devoted to the types of tires used by Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.
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The Mercedes duo decided not to use medium hard tires, switching directly to soft tires to complete their qualifying class simulations and then running short simulation tests with a large amount of fuel.
In the qualifying session simulations, Hamilton scored 1: 28.971d, which was enough to beat Verstappen, who scored 1: 29.318d on medium hard tires and was unable to improve his timing on soft tires, thus ending the tests. 0.347 behind the leader. .
As for Bottas, he also secured Mercedes in the lead, finishing testing in third place, 0.365s off Hamilton’s best time.
As for Verstappen’s teammate, Alexander Albon had a violent accident during the experiments as he lost control of his car as he exited the last corner, resulting in the raising of red flags and the suspension of the experiments.
After that, the experiments continued for a while before being stopped again, this time due to a dog entering the ring, and they took him out to continue the experiments after that.
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Fourth place went to Racing Point driver Sergio Pérez, while his colleague Lance Stroll came in eighth, while Daniel Ricciardo was the only Renault representative in the top ten, where he finished fifth.
As for Riccardo’s partner, Esteban Ocon is eleventh. Alpha Toure’s duo, Pierre Gasly and Danielle Kviat, were in sixth and ninth place, respectively.
Seventh place went to McLaren driver Lando Norris, while his colleague Carlos Sainz was only 13th, and Ferrari duo Sebastian Vettel broke away and Charles Leclerc 12th and 14th respectively, noting that the Ferrari team could not live up to the performance shown in Turkey.
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Kevin Magnussen came in 16th place in favor of Haas, separating the Alfa Romeo duo Antonio Giovinazzi and Kimi Raikkonen, while his colleague Roman Grogan came in second to last, separating Nicholas Latifi and George Russell respectively.
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