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[ad_1] Esteban Ocon topped the times for Alpine ahead of Red Bull's Sergio Perez in Saturday's uneventful second practice at this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix. The 26-year-old Frenchman clocked a best lap in one minute and 14.604 seconds to outpace the Mexican by 0.184 seconds. George Russell was third for Mercedes ahead of Fernando Alonso in the second Alpine, newly-acclaimed two-time world champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull and Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes.Pierre Gasly was seventh for Alpha Tauri ahead of the two Haas cars of Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen, who was fastest in Friday's rain-hit qualifying and will start from pole position in the sprint race later Saturday.Lando Norris, fully recovered from food poisoning, was 10th for McLaren.In his penultimate Grand Prix weekend,...

[ad_1] Max Verstappen on Thursday led calls for a reform of 'sprint races' next season and described them as 'not that much fun'. The two-time world champion, who won last year's sprint at Sao Paulo and has won both previous ones this season, spoke out while talking to reporters ahead of this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos. "I'm not a big fan of it because I feel like we don't really race," he said. "We get a few points, but you also know you can't really race because the main race is where you really get the points."You don't do a pitstop, so you put on tyres that will last the distance. The racing is a little bit better, but overall you don't really see a lot of overtaking unless there is a car out of position, and it's not really that much fun for me."This weekend's spri...

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