F1 Pre-season Testing: Result After Day 2 of Testing in Bahrain

F1 drivers have returned to the track for day 2 of pre-season testing in Bahrain. On day 1, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen topped the time sheets, while Fernando Alonso surprisingly finished second.

The Dutchman clocked 1:32.837 on the timesheets, with Fernando Alonso staying on second by clocking 1:32.866 on day 1. With the conclusion of session 1 of Day 2, there is already a bit of a change in the timesheet. So far, Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz has been at the top of the chart, clocking 1:32.486 after completing 54 laps.

Following in the second position is Williams’ Logan Sargeant with 1:32.063. He was one-thousandth of a second quicker than Alonso and four-tenths slower than Carlos Sainz.

The second session of Day 2 testing will take place in Bahrain at 12:15 GMT as part of the three-day test.

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F1 pre-season test result: Day 2 Session 1

Driver	Team	Time	Laps
Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:32.486	70
Logan Sargeant	Williams	1:32.063	84
Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	1:32.483	64
Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo	+0.684	43
Kevin Magnussen	Haas	+0.956	67
Esteban Ocon	Alpine	+1.004	49
Sergio Perez	Red Bull	+1.265	76
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+1.468	72
Lando Norris	McLaren	+3.036	65
Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	+3.222	85

What is the driver line-up for session 2?

One driver of each team has already run the set-up on their cars in session 1. Now it’s time for session 2 to begin. These three days of testing are key for the teams to a broad understanding of their new cars. It helps them recognise the problems and fix it before the lights out at the first race of the 2023 season.

Team	Session One	Session Two
Red Bull	Perez	Verstappen
Ferrari	Sainz	Leclerc
Mercedes	Hamilton	Russell
Alpine	Ocon	Gasly
McLaren	Norris	Piastri
Alfa Romeo	Zhou	Zhou
Aston Martin	Alonso	Alonso
Haas	Magnussen	Hulkenberg
AlphaTauri	Tsunoda	De Vries
Williams	Sargeant	Sargeant

F1 pre-season test result: Day 2 Session 2

The following session brought back the reigning world champion Max Verstappen, who had the whole day in his name. Like on Day 1, the Dutchman didn’t dominate the evening session.

Instead, Alfa Roemo’s Guanyu Zhou saw himself at the top of the grid. But the person following him wasn’t a surprise, as Verstappen sealed a P2. Aston Martin, whose rivals have hyped up, saw Fernando Alonso finishing third in the order.

Amidst all of this, some of the chaos was apparent. Mercedes’ George Russell had to retire off a hydraulic issue, which prompted marshals to airlift his car, and it was only allowed once Mercedes mechanics covered the floor so that nobody could see it.

Meanwhile, Williams also saw a strange situation when it was standing still in the pitlane. Though, David Croft revealed that Williams was probably doing a dress rehearsal.

While Zhou comfortably sealed his P1, he appeared to have technical struggles during the virtual safety car. Then, it was observed that Alfa Romeo mechanics were dragging his car protected by a yellow-flag-waving marshal.

With this, the second day of the testing is over, and the F1 teams will finally appear on Saturday for the last two sessions. After this, the teams are set to compete next weekend in the first race of the season

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