Vettel stays on top in Suzuka FP2

Sebastian Vettel continued to extend his lead over the other drivers in Friday Practice this morning, as he set the fastest lap for the second time today in Suzuka. He was 3 tenths of a second ahead of team-mate Mark Webber.

Sebastian Vettel continued to lead FP2 today

Robert Kubica was again impressive in 3rd, although he had a high-speed spin into the gravel trap during the session, where he was lucky to keep the car going. In 4th and 5th were Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, though amazingly they were a full second slower than the Red Bulls.

Jenson Button was very close behind in 6th. Lewis Hamilton’s car was fully repaired from his crash in FP2 with 10 minutes to go, and only set 8 laps. His fastest was only enough for 13th place.

Vitaly Petrov was 7th, ahead of Michael Schumacher, Adrian Sutil, Nico Hulkenberg and Nico Rosberg. Kamui Kobayashi was 12th, after another eventful session of running wide multiple times. His team-mate Nick Heidfeld was 15th.

Vitantonio Liuzzi struggled behind the two Toro Rossos in 18th place. Heikki Kovalainen continued to be the fastest driver of the new teams in 19th, ahead of Jarno Trulli. Lucas di Grassi took back his race seat from Jerome D’Ambrosio and was 21st behind Timo Glock.

Times from FP2:

Pos.		Driver	Car	Best lap	Gap	Laps
1		Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1’31.465		32
2		Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1’31.860	0.395	29
3		Robert Kubica	Renault	1’32.200	0.735	32
4		Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1’32.362	0.897	34
5		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1’32.519	1.054	35
6		Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1’32.533	1.068	28
7		Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1’32.703	1.238	32
8		Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1’32.831	1.366	27
9		Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1’32.842	1.377	26
10		Nico Hülkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1’32.851	1.386	26
11		Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1’32.880	1.415	26
12		Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1’33.471	2.006	31
13		Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1’33.481	2.016	8
14		Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1’33.564	2.099	16
15		Nick Heidfeld	Sauber-Ferrari	1’33.697	2.232	33
16		Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’34.005	2.540	32
17		Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’34.055	2.590	37
18		Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1’34.310	2.845	33
19		Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1’36.095	4.630	37
20		Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1’36.333	4.868	33
21		Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1’36.630	5.165	28
22		Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1’36.834	5.369	28
23		Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1’37.352	5.887	33
24		Sakon Yamamoto	HRT-Cosworth	1’37.831	6.366	34

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