Ferrari dominated the first session while Mercedes showed signs of life in practice No. 2. On Saturday, practice No. 3 takes place.
Drivers will get one final practice session at Barcelona’s Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Saturday before qualifying for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix. Ferrari, specifically Formula 1 series points leader Charles Leclerc, had the best of it in Friday’s two practice periods.
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Leclerc posted the best lap in both sessions, turning the 2.905-mile course in 1:19.828 in the first practice session before then shaving fractions of a second to reach 1:19.670 in the second practice.
Ferrari teammate Carlos Sainz ran a 1:19.907 to finish second in practice No. 1, but the Mercedes duo of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton turned in the next-best lap times in at practice No. 2 at 1:19.787 and 1:19.874, respectively.
Ferrari has won 13 times on the course, but Hamilton has dominated of late. He enters the race with five consecutive wins in Barcelona and last year tied Michael Schumacher with his sixth Formula 1 victory on the circuit.
Leclerc has two race wins in the first five starts of the season and leads the driver standings by 19 points over Max Verstappen, who has three victories and two DNFs.
Verstappen has won each of the last two stops on the series, in Italy and Miami but was unable to get a lap in below the 1:20 threshold in either practice Friday. He had the third-best time in practice one and was fifth in practice two.
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