2020 F1 Bahrain GP Friday practice results

In the first practice session, Hamilton set the pace as drivers also got their first chance to sample Pirelli’s 2021 tyres. Mercedes' recently re-crowned world champion was almost half a second faster than teammate Bottas, both setting their best times on Pirelli’s 2020 medium tyres.

Fresh from his podium finish in Turkey, Sergio Perez was third quickest for Racing Point but was almost a second slower than Hamilton managed – and ran the faster soft tyres. Another star of Turkey, Carlos Sainz, was next up for McLaren, just 0.018s slower than Perez.

Italian GP winner Pierre Gasly enjoyed a strong session in fifth place, ahead of the Red Bulls of Verstappen and Alex Albon.

In FP2, there was a major incident when Albon crashed heavily at the final corner, tearing two wheels from his Red Bull after over-correcting a big slide at the final corner on his soft-tyre run, which red-flagged the session. A second red flag was required for a stray dog, which ran on to the track but quickly exited the venue through a gap in the fence.

Verstappen set his fastest time of 1m29.318s on the medium tyre, but this was beaten by Hamilton’s 1m28.971s – 0.347s quicker – on the softs. Bottas was 0.018s slower than Verstappen on softs.

Perez was 0.432 off the pace in fourth, with Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo fifth, almost half a second away from the fastest time, with Gasly in sixth.

Last year’s pole-winner, Charles Leclerc, again showed how far from the pace Ferrari has fallen and could only manage the 14^th fastest time, 1.4s off the pace.

F1 Turkish Grand Prix Free Practice 1 results

Cla	Driver		Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	40	1'29.033			218.831
2	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	41	1'29.482	0.449	0.449	217.733
3	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	31	1'30.000	0.967	0.518	216.480
4	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	31	1'30.018	0.985	0.018	216.436
5	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	34	1'30.049	1.016	0.031	216.362
6	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	18	1'30.294	1.261	0.245	215.775
7	Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	34	1'30.302	1.269	0.008	215.756
8	Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	28	1'30.384	1.351	0.082	215.560
9	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	30	1'30.426	1.393	0.042	215.460
10	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	30	1'30.508	1.475	0.082	215.264
11	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	29	1'30.589	1.556	0.081	215.072
12	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	24	1'30.628	1.595	0.039	214.979
13	Robert Kubica		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	24	1'30.732	1.699	0.104	214.733
14	Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	28	1'30.832	1.799	0.100	214.497
15	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	29	1'30.854	1.821	0.022	214.445
16	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	27	1'30.896	1.863	0.042	214.346
17	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	37	1'31.020	1.987	0.124	214.054
18	Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	27	1'31.392	2.359	0.372	213.182
19	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	29	1'32.472	3.439	1.080	210.692
20	Roy Nissany		Williams	Mercedes	27	1'32.801	3.768	0.329	209.946
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F1 Turkish Grand Prix Free Practice 2 results

Cla	Driver		Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	28	1'28.971			218.983
2	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	34	1'29.318	0.347	0.347	218.132
3	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	30	1'29.336	0.365	0.018	218.089
4	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	32	1'29.403	0.432	0.067	217.925
5	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	27	1'29.462	0.491	0.059	217.781
6	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	36	1'29.551	0.580	0.089	217.565
7	Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	30	1'29.841	0.870	0.290	216.863
8	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	32	1'29.871	0.900	0.030	216.790
9	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	34	1'29.900	0.929	0.029	216.720
10	Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	17	1'30.014	1.043	0.114	216.446
11	Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	30	1'30.085	1.114	0.071	216.275
12	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	35	1'30.110	1.139	0.025	216.215
13	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	33	1'30.271	1.300	0.161	215.830
14	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	30	1'30.407	1.436	0.136	215.505
15	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	33	1'30.627	1.656	0.220	214.982
16	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	27	1'30.849	1.878	0.222	214.456
17	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	34	1'30.928	1.957	0.079	214.270
18	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	32	1'30.973	2.002	0.045	214.164
19	Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	28	1'31.119	2.148	0.146	213.821
20	George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	29	1'31.636	2.665	0.517	212.615
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F1 Turkish Grand Prix Friday Practice as it happened