Formula One driver Charles Leclerc set the fastest time in the second practice session of the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix, with teammate Carlos Sainz and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez completing the top three on a hot day in the Principality.

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At first, Daniel Ricciardo was in a garage with McLaren working on the rear of his car. After 10 minutes, he lost control of his car and crashed into a wall at Swimming Pool when he came out of his garage.

The session was resumed with under 40 minutes to play. Before Ricciardo’s off, Perez went fastest with a time of 1m 14.001s; the Ferraris were the only pair to run hards early on, while everyone else began on mediums.

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After the red flag, softs began to play, and the time the attack started, the digits tumbling until Leclerc set the fastest lap of 1m 12.656s, Ferrari teammate Sainz just 0.044s behind in P2.

That left Red Bull’s Perez third by 0.379s to Leclerc and Verstappen 0.447s behind his championship rival in P4.

Norris had a near-miss at Turn 1 after putting in a lap good for P5, 0.638s off the pace, with Mercedes’ George Russell a tenth behind in P6, having brushed his wheels at Turn 5, before complaining of a loss of power late on.

Pierre Gasly took seventh for AlphaTauri as the last driver within a second of P1.

Fernando Alonso was over three-tenths off the AlphaTauri in eighth, his teammate Esteban Ocon only managing a lap good enough for P18 in the other Alpine.

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Sebastian Vettel had an early near-miss at Swimming Pool, almost mirroring Ricciardo’s accident but putting in a spectacular save to carry on and finish ninth – AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda 0.07s back to round out the top 10. Tsunoda and Kevin Magnussen, 11th, were investigated for an alleged unsafe rejoin and also an impeding incident in FP2.

Lewis Hamilton finished 12th, nearly a second behind teammate George Russell, while Valtteri Bottas took P13 for Alfa Romeo. The Finnish driver had his MGU-K replaced after he missed FP1, Bottas spending much of FP2 on medium tyres – like his teammate Zhou Guanyu in P15 – with Alex Albon splitting the Haas drivers in his Williams.

Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll took P16 ahead of Mick Schumacher, the Haas driver’s MGU-K and gearbox having been replaced for this session after he stopped at the pit entry in FP1. Behind Schumacher was Ocon for Alpine and Williams’ Nicholas Latifi in P19 – McLaren’s Ricciardo 20th, having failed to set a time.

FP3 and qualifying are next up on Saturday afternoon in Monaco, Leclerc having led both practise sessions ahead of his home Grand Prix.