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Live updates from the second day of 2025 F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain.

2025 F1 pre-season testing continues with day two at the Bahrain International Circuit.

It was McLaren's Lando Norris who set the pace in Bahrain with an impressive lap on the opening day of running.

A power cut during the afternoon session meant that day one was extended by one hour, giving the teams additional time to make up for lost ground.

At this stage, lap times should be taken with a pinch of salt, but the consensus so far at least is that McLaren appear to be strong again.

Lewis Hamilton completed 70 laps and set the 13th-fastest time on a busy day for Ferrari as he continues to get up to speed with his new team.

Each of the 20 drivers will have eight hours of running remaining each across the next two days to prepare for the first race in Australia on March 16.

Day two of testing kicks off at 7am UK time. The morning session finishes at 11am, with the afternoon session starting at midday.
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F1 2025 Bahrain pre-season testing: Today's full driver line-up

Lewis Larkam

27 Feb 2025

09:46

Current order

2025 F1 Bahrain Pre-Season Testing - Day Two
Pos	Driver	Nat.	Team	Time	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	GBR	Scuderia Ferrari HP	1m30.080s	25
2	Carlos Sainz	ESP	Atlassian Williams Racing	1m30.152s	21
3	George Russell	GBR	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1m30.379s	42
4	Pierre Gasly	FRA	BWT Alpine F1 Team	1m30.846s	23
5	Liam Lawson	NZL	Oracle Red Bull Racing	1m31.233s	28
6	Nico Hulkenberg	GER	Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber	1m31.525s	31
7	Esteban Ocon	FRA	MoneyGram Haas F1 Team	1m32.158s	27
8	Yuki Tsunoda	JPN	Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team	1m32.719s	20
9	Fernando Alonso	ESP	Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team	1m32.942s	24
10	Oscar Piastri	AUS	McLaren F1 Team	1m33.771s	35

09:24

Cars back on track

Tsunoda, Lawson and Piastri join Hulkenberg and Russell on track as the rain slows.

09:19

Crofty on his visit to McLaren HQ

"Everybody seemed to be in a really good place.

"Knowing what they’re doing, understanding what they’re doing and getting on with the job.

"Loving life.

"The in-fighting is not there."

09:09

A car on track

It's Russell in the Mercedes.

08:59

Lap times after two hours

2025 F1 Bahrain Pre-Season Testing - Day Two
Pos	Driver	Nat.	Team	Time	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	GBR	Scuderia Ferrari HP	1m30.080s	17
2	Carlos Sainz	ESP	Atlassian Williams Racing	1m30.152s	14
3	George Russell	GBR	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1m30.379s	28
4	Pierre Gasly	FRA	BWT Alpine F1 Team	1m30.846s	14
5	Liam Lawson	NZL	Oracle Red Bull Racing	1m31.233s	15
6	Nico Hulkenberg	GER	Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber	1m31.525s	21
7	Fernando Alonso	ESP	Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team	1m32.942s	14
8	Esteban Ocon	FRA	MoneyGram Haas F1 Team	1m33.771s	28
9	Yuki Tsunoda	JPN	Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team	1m37.961s	11
10	Oscar Piastri	AUS	McLaren F1 Team	No Time Set	7

08:45

Ocon

Not a lot of happening with Ocon focusing on practicing starts at the end of the pit lane.

He's about to do his third practice start.

08:41

Haas send Ocon out

He's on the intermediates. Not every team has a set of intermediates to use as they were forced to choose their allocation for testing back in December.