Oscar Piastri topped second practice at Formula 1's 2024 Japanese Grand Prix, where determined drizzle prevented more than the bare minimum of running and only 13 drivers set lap times.
Rain started sporadically falling in the paddock with under an hour to go ahead of FP2's 3pm local time commencement, but this intensified with 15 minutes to go. It was therefore no shock when no cars headed out as FP2 did get underway, with few drivers even in their cockpits at this stage.
With purple sectors in the final two-thirds of his first flier of FP2, Piastri did indeed sneak ahead on a 1m39.105s. Although there was just a minute to go by this stage, a gaggle of drivers had also moved to sample the softs – including Hamilton, Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and the two Saubers, while the RBs reemerged to do final inters tours. Shortly after Piastri produced a third successive fastest lap to finally head the session on a 1m34.725s, Hamilton's sole slicks effort came in 0.
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