Alexander Albon suffered a heavy crash in his Red Bull as Lance Stroll’s Racing Point set the pace in second practice at the British Grand Prix. Albon was second fastest, 0.090 seconds behind Stroll, but crashed at Stowe. Albon has a new race engineer as Red Bull try to help the inexperienced driver cope with a difficult car. The Anglo-Thai’s crash was the umpteenth time either he or team-mate Max Verstappen have lost the rear of their car mid-corner this season as the team battle with an aerodynamic instability problem with their new design. Red Bull brought Daniel Ricciardo’s former engineer Simon Rennie back to the race team to try to help Albon out and the 24-year-old had looked like he was in decent shape before the crash. I’m sure the Merc are hiding quite a lot but as a car it feels well balanced. “Quite a difficult day, to be honest,” said Hamilton.

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