F1 GP Europe: Hamilton confirms himself in Free Practice 2

In a second free practice session in Baku in which very little happened were it not for the impressive series of long runs in particular at turn 3, the winner was Lewis Hamilton. The best of the morning. The fastest in the afternoon with an uncatchable 1'44″223 (scored with supersoft) and a race pace that was the envy of even his Mercedes teammate.

And Nico Rosberg himself, second, was forced to park at turn 20 due to a traction failure with around 19 minutes to go, thus eliminating his chances of taking the top spot.

Sergio Perez placed in excellent third place despite being more than 1" behind, confirming the excellent form of the Force India Fifth fastest time on this track for Nico Hulkenberg.

Very different performance at home Williams, as often happens, a little hidden on Friday and focused on the distance with numerous pit stop tests, its well-known weak point. Fourth time for Valtteri Bottas and only sixteenth for Felipe Massa.

Sixth was a solid Carlos Sainz since FP1, while his colleague Toro Rosso Kvyat finished in a mediocre fourteenth place.

The problems of the initial session which saw Ricciardo on the wall and Verstappen having lunch before due due to technical problems have been resolved Red Bull managed to enter the top ten with both cars.

Criticize the performance of Ferrari, never fighting for the hot places and in the very last stages out with Kimi Raikkonen, thirteenth, stuck in fifth gear at turn 4 and also in danger with Sebastian Vettel, eighth, called back to the pits as a precaution.

Jenson Button was decent ninth McLaren, while Fernando Alonso, eleventh, suffered a power failure.

The two were very foul Haas with Grosjean twelfth and Gutierrez fifteenth.

Good news for Manor eighteenth with Haryanto and twenty-first with Wehrlein. They disappoint Renault e Clean, this last with Nasr and nineteenth with Ericsson, for an important portion of the pit shift for the replacement of the engine due to exhaust problems that appeared in the morning.

Chiara Rainis