FP2 turned out to be a session of two halves as the first half of the session took place in the dry before the arrival of a mid-session shower.
”Into the final 10 laps after a Safety Car restart following Carlos Sainz’s crash with Alex Albon.
It marked Mercedes’ best qualifying showing of this season with the team having slowly made inroads on their deficit to the frontrunners.
wasn’t as keen to throw Ricciardo under the bus but concedes he is going through some “challenges”.