Hamilton ended fifth behind Oscar Piastri as Norris led the way.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
All 20 cars were quick to emerge from their garages when the green light switched on at the end of the pit lane, with Piastri reclaiming his McLaren from F2 racer Alex Dunne and Franco Colapinto taking his Alpine back from reserve Paul Aron following their FP1 outings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Despite a cracked mirror, Piastri posted the fastest time of the opening minutes with a 1m 21.212s, before team mate Norris, who had coincidentally lost one of his mirrors, lowered the benchmark to a 1m 21.012s \u2013 both drivers initially running medium tyres.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Drama then ensued when Alpine driver Pierre Gasly went too deep entering the Ascari chicane, ran through the gravel and littered stones over the track, before Antonelli lost control of his Mercedes through Lesmo 2, beached it at the exit, and caused a red flag.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
A brief stoppage followed as marshals cleared Antonelli\u2019s car, allowing McLaren to carry out some mirror repairs on Piastri and Norris\u2019 cars, with 45 minutes remaining on the FP2 clock when Race Control declared that the circuit was clear once more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Further runs on Pirelli\u2019s medium and hard compound tyres duly triggered a flurry of changes at the top of the times \u2013 Leclerc clocking a 1m 20.937s, Max Verstappen producing a 1m 20.710s, and Sainz getting down to a 1m 20.583s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
A brief stoppage followed as marshals cleared Antonelli\u2019s car, allowing McLaren to carry out some mirror repairs on Piastri and Norris\u2019 cars, with 45 minutes remaining on the FP2 clock when Race Control declared that the circuit was clear once more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Leclerc and Verstappen experienced troubles of their own on the soft rubber; Leclerc running wide exiting Lesmo 2 and reporting \u201cno grip at all \u2013 like zero\u201d; and Verstappen reporting that his car was becoming \u201creally jumpy\u201d and \u201creally nervous on every little bump\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n