RB’s Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda, meanwhile, caught the eye by slotting into second and third respectively after those runs as the track continued to ramp up. Elsewhere, Carlos Sainz suffered a bit of a wobble through Turn 4, the same area of the circuit where team mate Leclerc took too much kerb and spun off on Friday.
The Red Bull and Aston Martin cars looked to be running different tyre strategies to the rest of the pack, with both opting to save the soft compound for later in the session. As the hour progressed and the times tumbled during the second run of fast laps, Mercedes were displaced at the top by a flying Norris on a time of 1m 16.098s, nearly half a second clear of George Russell.
HIGHLIGHTS: Enjoy the Hungaroring FP2 action as Norris goes quickest for McLaren while Leclerc crashes out
Piastri was also looking quick but could not quite match his team mate’s time, with his lap 0.044s behind Norris, while Verstappen’s first lap on the softs did not go entirely smoothly which put him in third place. The Red Bull driver also went wide on his final outing.
Russell took fourth for the Silver Arrows, ahead of Sainz in fifth and Ricciardo in sixth. Alex Albon enjoyed a promising outing for Williams to go seventh, from the Haas of Nico Hulkenberg in eighth.
