Vettel continues domination of Interlagos practice

Sebastian Vettel headed the second Friday Practice session for the Brazilian Grand Prix, again ahead of Mark Webber. This time, Fernando Alonso had more luck, this time in 3rd place after suffering an engine failure in FP1, although this time team-mate Felipe Massa had trouble out on track.

Sebastian Vettel led the way in FP2

Webber initially led the way, but was knocked off the top spot when Sebastian switched to the super-soft tyres. However, Mark managed to remain within a tenth of his team-mate. Fernando was another 2 tenths back.

Lewis Hamilton was 4th, while Felipe Massa was 5th. However, at the same spot where Alonso stopped in FP1, Massa was forced to retire from the session with a clutch problem. Robert Kubica was 6th, and Jenson Button was more than a second off the pace in 7th.

Nick Heidfeld, Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher finished off the top 10. Kamui Kobayashi was 12th, and had another eventful session. This time, he nearly ran into the back of a Lotus car at Turn 1, then narrowly avoided contact with Nico Rosberg later on.

Meanwhile, Michael Schumacher and Jaime Alguersuari had a small incident at Turn 2, when Schumacher overtook the Toro Rosso around the outside, making contact in the process.

At the back, Trulli and Kovalainen were well on the pace, and only 3 seconds slower than Vettel’s fastest lap. Bruno Senna was faster than Christian Klien this time around, but only just.

Times from FP2:

Pos.		Driver	Car	Best lap	Gap	Laps
1		Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1’11.968		28
2		Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1’12.072	0.104	34
3		Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1’12.328	0.360	36
4		Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1’12.656	0.688	33
5		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1’12.677	0.709	19
6		Robert Kubica	Renault	1’12.882	0.914	37
7		Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1’13.206	1.238	33
8		Nick Heidfeld	Sauber-Ferrari	1’13.222	1.254	40
9		Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1’13.333	1.365	34
10		Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1’13.346	1.378	36
11		Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1’13.520	1.552	37
12		Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1’13.610	1.642	41
13		Nico Hülkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1’13.725	1.757	39
14		Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1’13.741	1.773	32
15		Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1’13.818	1.850	26
16		Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1’14.045	2.077	37
17		Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’14.304	2.336	33
18		Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’14.578	2.610	37
19		Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1’14.984	3.016	47
20		Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1’15.101	3.133	43
21		Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1’15.433	3.465	35
22		Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1’16.070	4.102	42
23		Christian Klien	HRT-Cosworth	1’16.082	4.114	38
24		Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1’16.150	4.182	35

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