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Lewis Hamilton topped the morning running of Day 2 of pre-season testing in a heavily-disrupted Bahrain morning.
Lewis Hamilton set the fastest lap of F1 testing, improving by nearly seven-tenths of a second on Day 2. The session was heavily disrupted by rain, causing track time loss. Hamilton continued to improve, eventually lowering the benchmark to 1:29.379. He was 0.399s faster than Russell and just two-tenths slower than Verstappen’s 2024 pole time. Aside from the rain, a notable incident was the contact between Hulkenberg and Piastri at Turn 8. The session ended with a routine systems test under a planned red flag, with drivers also practicing starts on the grid.
