Lucler takes Vettel's lead in the second test in Germany

Temperatures continued to rise with the lunch break, reaching 37 ° C at the beginning of the session, while the surface temperature was 50 ° C.

This resulted in some reluctance of the pilots to enter the ring during the first minutes.

But then they got into their medium and hard tire programs, where Lewis Hamilton was at that time.

However, when switching to the soft frames to simulate the qualifying practice, it was Ferrari that Leclerc scored a time of 13.449 minutes to ensure the first place.

Second place went to his compatriot Sebastian Vettel, where German was slower than 0.124 seconds and most of the delay in the third section, which was the hardest for most drivers in case of slippage and to leave the track.

Hamilton finished third, even though he was close to Vettel and only 0.022 seconds apart.

Valteri Potas failed to keep pace with the trio and finished only fourth, 0.662 seconds behind leader Leclerc.

"I do not have the energy, my friend," he said before saying in a few moments: "She seems to be back" for the team to answer: "I'm not sure I do not have energy, my friend, We know the cause of the problem, let's go back to the garage to solve it. "

The Dutchman was locked in the garage for a long time before returning in the last half hour and was limited to long-distance simulations.

But his program was interrupted minutes after his teammate Pierre Gasley had a serious incident on the last lap with 17 minutes left.

The image of the incident was the loss of control of the French car at the entrance to the last corner; it was pbading over the gravel and colliding with the side wall and the fracture on the left side, which required raising the red flag until it was removed and cleaning the path.

The race resumed with 9 minutes remaining at the end as the drivers tried to finish their race simulations.

Hbaden was sixth to Roman Grosjean, who continued his momentum by defeating Lance Stroll and Kimi Raikkonen.

While Nico Halkenberg was ninth, he had a lot of problems in the final stages and his car stopped at the end of the line.

Sergio Perez confirmed the improvement of Racing Point thanks to the package of updates brought by the team, to ensure the Mexican presence of cars in the top ten.

In terms of simulating the race, the pace of the best teams did not seem very far, which meant a tighter race on Sunday.

Result of the experiment: