2015 F1 Round 10 Hungarian Grand Prix FP2 – Hamilton fastest again, Red Bull pair follow

In FP2 for the Hungarian Grand Prix on the afternoon of July 24, Hamilton remained fastest with a 1:23.949. Kvyat and Ricciardo were 0.351 and 0.502 seconds behind respectively, putting both Red Bulls second and third.

Hamilton first established an advantage on medium tyres, then improved his best to 1:23.949 after switching to softs. Rosberg’s soft-tyre run left him fourth on a 1:24.668, short of his team-mate’s pace.

Kvyat set a 1:24.300 and Ricciardo a 1:24.451. Late in the session, Ricciardo’s car began to smoke and stopped. Red Bull subsequently clarified that his race power unit was unaffected.

Räikkönen was fifth, Sainz sixth and Vettel seventh. Vettel spun at both Turn 12 and Turn 1, and his eventual best lap was a 1:25.660.

Alonso took eighth with a 1:25.752, followed by Bottas in ninth and Massa in tenth. Both Williams drivers made the top ten, while Alonso led the two McLarens.

Verstappen was eleventh, Button twelfth, Maldonado thirteenth and Nasr fourteenth. Grosjean was fifteenth after going off at Turn 4 and also spinning at Turn 13.

Ericsson was sixteenth, with Merhi and Stevens seventeenth and eighteenth, their best times separated by just 0.002 seconds. The official FP2 classification contained 18 drivers, with neither Force India recording a time.

Force India continued checking its cars after Pérez’s rollover that morning, and both Pérez and Hülkenberg sat out the session. FP2 proceeded normally, with the other teams completing their afternoon practice programmes.