2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix FP2 report and highlights: Lando Norris leads team mate Oscar Piastri and Nico Hulkenberg during second practice in Abu Dhabi

The Monegasque driver initially settled in behind Lando Norris, who set an early benchmark on the medium compound with a time of 1m 25.020s, with everybody preventing by site visitors to clock their first quick laps.

Because the session marched on, the Ferrari versus McLaren battle that the game has turn into accustomed to this season continued to ramp up as Norris, Sainz, Leclerc and Piastri all jostled for high spot on the timesheets.

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In the meantime, this 12 months’s champion Verstappen suffered a messy lap that noticed him rattle over the kerbs – Alpine’s Jack Doohan additionally appeared to battle at instances, locking up his tyres as he continues his first full race weekend.

Within the final half of follow, the drivers took benefit of the cooling monitor temperatures to hold out some qualifying simulation laps, with Norris popping out on high with a lap time of 1m 23.517s forward of workforce mate Piastri and high-flying Haas driver Hulkenberg.