Ahead of today's second practice session the air temperature is 28 degrees C, while the track temperature is 30 degrees. It is now 20:00 (local time), consequently temperatures have dropped, but just a little. While there were none of the anticipated incident in FP1, a number of drivers were clearly pushing their luck. Among them was Verstappen, who quick straight out of the box, but at times appeared to be pushing too hard. Hamilton, on the other hand, was slow(ish) out of the box, but by session end was in his usual position at the top of the timesheets. Fears over the 'grippiness' of the track - or lack of it - proved unfounded as drivers experienced no issues whatsoever. Bottas was...
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