Free 2 | F1, live today: Las Vegas GP results, summary and classification with Alonso and Sainz, live

Final classification of the second free practice sessions of the F1 Las Vegas GPwith Hamilton up front against Norris, Russell and Sainz fourth in his Ferrari. Alonso was 14th in a session where he started with a bounce after changing the settings on his car and had to change the setup again to improve that aspect. Verstappen finished far ahead.

End of the second free practice of the F1 2024 Las Vegas GP and end of the first day. This has been confirmed In these very cold track conditions, with only 13 degrees on the asphalt at the end of the session, the Mercedes was very comfortable.. Hamilton took the lead same session and Russell was third.

But be careful, what? Lando Norris, theoretically full of fuel, was second in the 11th 1000th with his McLaren.

And in the middle of the fight for the title, the weekend where Verstappen has the first option to become a 4-time F1 world champion, Red Bull was far behind, with Max in 17th place and Pérez, 19th… Although it is known that Red Bull always improves on Saturday, the start was not good for the champion.

After one lap, Ferrari worried about the cold to increase the temperature of the tires, and at the moment Sainz was 4th and Leclerc, 5th, on a circuit that by its characteristics seemed very good for red ones, although not by temperature. So far, those low temperatures seem to have added Mercedes to the party, which started in style with Hamilton leading Free Practice 1 and now repeating at the top of the overall standings in Free Practice 2, with Russell in third position and Norris. in second place at 11 thousandths. And Verstappen? He was 7th in Free Practice 1 and now 17th in this FP2.

This red flag ends the qualifying simulations with soft and the times remain as they are (table below). Now, when the session resumes after the red flag, the drivers will start their long run, although with a little time, less than expected, so the teams may not complete the desired long run.

After Leclerc was only 19 centimeters away from touching the wall, the protections were touched… now there are a red flag because Alex Albon’s car stopped. Thai’s Williams stopped on the tracks and the driver had to get out of the car. He was coming out of the pits and had problems with the fuel system shortly after. Maybe it’s related.

De la Rosa, on Alonso on DAZN: “Alonso complained about the rebound and now they’re changing the rear springs so the car can absorb the bumps better and not go into that harmful rebound frequency. Then he’s gone time find the feel on the medium tire and put on the soft tire and then focus on long runs to see the grain that the medium tire will have.

“Everybody reserved hard tires, but it seemed in Free Practice 1, with the medium and soft tires there was a lot of grain. it’s colder there, more grain.”

F1 2024 Las Vegas GP first free practice sessions look like this: Hamilton leads first free practice sessions in Las Vegas with Mercedes dominating

“I think you need to make another set-up change because of the rebound”said Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard had a lot of bounce in Brazil and that created a lot of back pain during the race. And after changing settings between sessions in the green car, he had to return to the pits to make a set-up change to avoid that annoying bounce.

The second free practice of the Las Vegas GP begins. So far, all with medium tires in one cold track, only 13 degrees (temperature 11).

Those very specific conditions make this second session important for the teams to continue to find a way to warm up the tires to put them in the right window of use, especially in qualifying. Above all, Ferrari, which is more difficult to put the tires in the right window than the Top teams.

Welcome to Las Vegas GP 2024. We start with this second free practice session, the most important of the day to understand race speed in the long run and qualifying speed.