Russell tops FP2 as Verstappen suffers reliability woes

There were two red flags that held up proceedings – Carlos Sainz crashing in the early stages and Nicholas Latifi stopping late-on without drive on his Williams.

In slightly cooler conditions compared to Friday afternoon’s earlier FP1 session, Latifi had led the pack out of the pits and duly established the first-place benchmark time at 1m36.312s.

This was quickly beaten by Sebastian Vettel, Sainz and Esteban Ocon – with all the early pacesetters completing their early…