In a tight midfield pack, the former Ferrari driver finished FP1 in 12th place before slipping two places to 14th in FP2, where he was 0.922s off the pace-setting Red Bull of Max Verstappen.
His team-mate Lance Stroll was 13th and eighth in the two sessions.
The four-time world champion was badly compromised at the recent Bahrain test by mechanical issues that left him “100 laps” short of …Keep reading