Leclerc pips Sainz in FP2 as Ricciardo crashes

Carlos Sainz finished second ahead of Red Bull pair Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen, who was unable to gain as much time on ageing rubber during the qualifying simulation efforts in the mid-part of FP2 compared to his team-mate.

At the start of the second session of Friday afternoon, most cars headed out immediately on the medium tyres – which only Ferrari used at the start of FP1.

Conversely, the red cars began the second session running the hard tyres, which meant…