to the top spot on the final day in Bahrain.
on day two.
did not seem to enjoy the final half-day to testing – his SF-25 being off the road several times in his early long-run work, before he went into the garage after completing just 47 laps to not return.
Russell – in for Andrea Kimi Antonelli at Mercedes for the second session on Friday – did 91 laps, which included another full race simulation.
managed on day two in temperatures around 4C higher.
Verstappen did not complete a full distance race run either, which means Red Bull leaves Bahrain as the only one of the typical top four squads in this position.
, Piastri and Russell.
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing
Photo by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Images
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Gasly had gotten ahead of Leclerc with a series of runs on the C3s that took the best time first to a 1m30.459s, then 1m30.282s, with just over half the final four-hour session remaining.
Over an hour later, Verstappen, who to that point had been struggling with the balance of his RB21 in rather mid-2024 fashion, blasted to the top spot with a C3-shod 1m29.844s and shortly afterwards went quicker on a 1m29.799s on the same compound.
With an hour of the test remaining, Albon used the C4s the drivers were struggling to warm up even on the hotter final day to nip ahead on a 1m29.650s, before Verstappen got back ahead with a 1m29.566s.
– who ended the day eighth for Haas with that team’s first performance run of the whole test set midway through the afternoon – spun strangely at Turn 1.
Verstappen also went around at nearly the same spot a short while later and afterwards, with just seven minutes left Russell – having barely completed his race sim – was sent back out with the C3s and he duly established the day’s benchmark time at 1m29.545s.
This is 0.197s slower than Sainz went on Thursday – with the elevated temperatures on Friday coming at the price of rear tyre life on push laps given the rough Bahrain surface.
Hamilton ended the day sixth fastest, ahead of Yuki Tsunoda, Ocon and Leclerc.
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