Hockenheim (Germany) (AFP)

Monaco's Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) set the fastest time of the 2nd free practice session of the German Grand Prix, the 11th round of the Formula 1 World Championship, on Friday at the Hockenheim circuit (4,574 km).

With a time of 1: 13: 449: 1,000, the fastest of the day, he is ahead of his German team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who dominated the morning session, 124/1000 and the Briton Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 146/1000 .

Finland's Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) is fourth at 662/1000 and Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull) fifth at 684/1000.

While the Ferrari have been faster all day, these results are hardly indicative of the qualifying result on Saturday at 15:00 local (13:00 GMT).

Scorching temperatures should indeed soften and thunderstorms are expected, which would make the business of Silver Arrows, which suffered in Austria in late June cooling problems.

These free practice sessions 2 were especially marked by an outing of the French Pierre Gasly, author of the fifteenth time only. He came crashing down on the barriers at the last corner and damaged the left side of his car very much.

The Frenchman Romain Grosjean (Haas), who has found his car early in the season to try to understand why the most recent version used by his Danish teammate Kevin Magnussen, 18th to 2 sec 021/1000, does not work as expected, sign the 6th time at 730/1000.

Canadian Lance Stroll (Racing Point), Finland's Kimi Räikkönen (Alfa Romeo Racing), Germany's Nico Hülkenberg (Renault) and Sergio Pérez (Racing Point) of Mexico close the top 10.

The improvements made to Racing Point this weekend seem to pay off.

Free practice 3 Saturday at 12:00 (10:00 GMT) should provide pilots with conditions more representative of those qualifications.

. 2nd free practice session:

Charles Leclerc (MON / Ferrari) 1: 13.449 (33 laps)

Sebastian Vettel (GER / Ferrari) 1: 13.573 (30)

Lewis Hamilton (GBR / Mercedes) 1: 13.595 (30)

Valtteri Bottas (FIN / Mercedes) 1: 14.111 (30)

Max Verstappen (NED / Red Bull-Honda) 1: 14.133 (23)

Romain Grosjean (FRA / Haas-Ferrari) 1: 14.179 (33)

Lance Stroll (CAN / Racing Point-Mercedes) 1: 14.268 (32)

Kimi Raikkonen (FIN / Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari) 1: 14.458 (33)

Nico Hulkenberg (GER / Renault) 1: 14.472 (26)

Sergio Perez (MEX / Racing Point-Mercedes) 1: 14.518 (30)

Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP / McLaren-Renault) 1: 14.662 (34)

Daniil Kvyat (RUS / Toro Rosso-Honda) 1: 14,800 (39)

Daniel Ricciardo (AUS / Renault) 1: 15.010 (33)

Alexander Albon (THA / Toro Rosso-Honda) 1: 15.062 (36)

Pierre Gasly (FRA / Red Bull-Honda) 1: 15.089 (19)

Lando Norris (GBR / McLaren-Renault) 1: 15.247 (29)

Antonio Giovinazzi (ITA / Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari) 1: 15.406 (31)

Kevin Magnussen (DEN / Haas-Ferrari) 1: 15.470 (28)

George Russell (GBR / Williams-Mercedes) 1: 16.900 (27)

Robert Kubica (POL / Williams-Mercedes) 1: 16.980 (26)

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