Fernando Alonso finished third, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen down in sixth.
The session got underway 2.5 hours later than planned, at 2.30am local time following repairs to the track surface along the city’s famous Strip, after Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz and Alpine’s Esteban Ocon suffered damage in FP1 that lasted just eight minutes when a water valve cover was forced up from its concrete join by the force of the ground-effect cars.
