Esteban Ocon led the best way within the second and ultimate apply session of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, topping the timesheets earlier than in the present day’s F1 Sprint.

Ocon clocked a time of 1m 14.604s to guide Sergio Perez, who was in P2 by 0.184s, with the Mercedes of George Russell going third quickest within the session.

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This was the second of two 60-minute apply periods in Brazil, with groups utilizing the primary a part of Saturday’s working to guage the tyres they’ll use for Saturday night’s Sprint and Sunday’s Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

Ocon’s workforce mate Fernando Alonso was fourth quickest forward of Max Verstappen in fifth, Lewis Hamilton in sixth, and the AlphaTauri of Pierre Gasly in seventh.

Haas picked up from Friday with one other sturdy exhibiting in FP2, with Mick Schumacher in eighth forward of workforce mate Kevin Magnussen – who yesterday took his maiden pole position – in ninth.

McLaren’s Lando Norris rounded out the top-10 forward of Carlos Sainz – who has a five-place grid penalty for tomorrow’s Grand Prix after taking his sixth inside combustion engine of the season – and the opposite AlphaTauri of Yuki Tsunoda in twelfth.

The second Ferrari of Charles Leclerc was thirteenth forward of Daniel Ricciardo in 14th, with final 12 months’s Sao Paulo Sprint winner, Valtteri Bottas, in fifteenth for Alfa Romeo.

Nicholas Latifi – who went straight off into the grass at Turn 12 to briefly carry out yellow flags – was down in sixteenth, forward of the Aston Martin duo of Lance Stroll and Sebastian Vettel, in seventeenth and 18th, respectively.

Zhou Guanyu was nineteenth for Alfa Romeo whereas Logan Sargeant – taking up from Alex Albon at Williams for the session – completed in twentieth, though with 28 laps he gained an additional level on his Super Licence.

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