Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton pipped team-mate Charles Leclerc in second free practice at Baku's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, while McLaren title rivals Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri both struggled.
Ferrari duo Hamilton and Leclerc led the early running and, as rivals struggled on the slippery streets of Baku, the Scuderia stayed on top for the entire session. Leclerc's early soft-tyre lap was bested by Hamilton's 1m41.543s on mediums, perhaps foreshadowing the difficult choice teams face in qualifying between Pirelli's softest C5 and C6 compounds. Those lap times were already one second faster than the morning's FP1 session on a rarely used and therefore rapidly improving street circuit.
