P1racenews AI automatic summary:
With just two hours remaining in the second day of pre-season testing from Bahrain, it’s Carlos Ssainz who leads the way for Williams.
Carlos Sainz set an impressive lap time to lead the F1 timing board during the afternoon session, with two hours to go. He was one of the two drivers who didn’t swap cars with their teammates at lunch. The morning’s fastest, Lewis Hamilton, was dethroned by Sainz with a 1:29.348 lap time. Sainz’s Ferrari was 0.031s ahead of Hamilton, while Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari was third. Leclerc had a spin at the last corner due to a rain-affected track. George Russell and Kimi Antonelli from Mercedes were fifth and sixth, respectively. Jack Doohan and Pierre Gasly followed in seventh and eighth. The top 10 was completed by Fernando Alonso, Yuki Tsunoda, and Lance Stroll. Liam Lawson faced water leak issues in the opening session, but his team fixed it for him to gain valuable track time later.
