Listen to this article The session featured the first red flag interruption of testing, with Sergio Perez stopping in the final sector during the final hour. Unlike at the start of the first session on day one, there was a reduced rushed to immediately head onto the circuit when the morning action kicked off at 9am local time. McLaren’s Ricciardo led the early times, but with large aero-measuring rakes fitted to all the cars that took part in the initial running – McLaren, Alpine, Williams, AlphaTauri, Aston Martin and Ferrari – the laps were coming in nearly 15s slower than the fastest times on day one as the teams required their drivers to run down the straights at consistent low speeds. Lewis Hamilton’s headed out 20 minutes into the four-hour session and posted the first representative time of the day – a 1m28.799s on the C3 medium compound tyres – alt …