{"id":31741,"date":"2025-09-05T12:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/norris-leads-free-practice-2-in-monza-sainz-surprises-with-williams-in-italy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:36:53","slug":"norris-leads-free-practice-2-in-monza-sainz-surprises-with-williams-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/norris-leads-free-practice-2-in-monza-sainz-surprises-with-williams-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris leads Free Practice 2 in Monza; Sainz surprises with Williams in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monza, Italy<\/strong> &#8211; Lando Norris led the second free practice session of the Italian Grand Prix, returning McLaren to the top of the timesheet.<\/p>\n<p>The British driver set a time of 1m19s878, narrowly beating Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc, who finished second with a difference of only 0s083.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise of the day was Carlos Sainz, driving the Williams, who positioned himself third, just 0s096 behind Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the first three, Oscar Piastri, also from McLaren, secured fourth place. Lewis Hamilton, who had dominated the first free practice session, finished in fifth position.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Max Verstappen (Red Bull)<\/li>\n<li>Alex Albon (Williams)<\/li>\n<li>Nico H\u00fclkenberg (Sauber)<\/li>\n<li>Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull)<\/li>\n<li>George Russell (Mercedes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These drivers completed the top 10 of a very competitive session.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso, with Aston Martin, did not manage to stand out, finishing in 15th place.<\/p>\n<p>Kimi Antonelli suffered an incident with his Mercedes, which caused a red flag and relegated him to 19th place.<\/p>\n<p>Franco Colapinto, who returned to Alpine, finished in 20th position after facing problems with the power of his single-seater.<\/p>\n<p>The track showed a notable improvement due to the F2 and F3 tests, allowing for faster times compared to the first session.<\/p>\n<p>In the final stages of the session, the teams focused on long runs with full tanks, where Norris and Leclerc demonstrated consistent pace, lapping around 1m23.<\/p>\n<p>With the classification ahead, McLaren and Ferrari are emerging as the main contenders, while Sainz&#8217;s performance with Williams promises to add excitement to the Italian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monza, Italy &#8211; Lando Norris led the second free practice session of the Italian Grand Prix, returning McLaren to the top of the timesheet. The British driver set a time of 1m19s878, narrowly beating Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc, who finished second with a difference of only 0s083. The surprise of the day was Carlos Sainz, driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[647,2373,436,651],"class_list":{"0":"post-31741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-ferrari","9":"tag-grand-prix","10":"tag-lando-norris","11":"tag-monza"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}