Hamilton tops Abu Dhabi second practice

Lewis Hamilton took over at the top of Friday Practice at Abu Dhabi, setting the fastest time in the second session. He was a quarter of a second faster than Sebastian Vettel, who was 2 tenths ahead of Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber.

Lewis Hamilton was fastest in second practice

On the medium tyres, Alonso reigned supreme, but stood no chance when everyone switched to the super-softs. Despite setting less laps than his rivals, Hamilton was easily on top.

The Renaults of Kubica and Petrov were 5th and 7th, surrounding Felipe Massa in 6th, who stopped out on track, reporting that his car had run out of fuel.

Jenson Button struggled in 8th, Vitantonio Liuzzi was 9th, and the Mercedes drivers of Rosberg and Schumacher were 10th and 11th.

Heikki Kovalainen took over the new teams in 19th place, 4.2 seconds off Hamilton’s pace. He scraped ahead of Timo Glock, who comfortably beat Jarno Trulli and Lucas di Grassi. Christian Klien and Bruno Senna were up to 2 seconds off their rivals at the back.

Times from FP2:

Pos.		Driver	Car	Best lap	Gap	Laps
1		Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1’40.888		25
2		Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1’41.145	0.257	28
3		Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1’41.314	0.426	29
4		Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1’41.315	0.427	29
5		Robert Kubica	Renault	1’41.576	0.688	31
6		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1’41.583	0.695	21
7		Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1’42.096	1.208	31
8		Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1’42.132	1.244	28
9		Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1’42.203	1.315	31
10		Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1’42.222	1.334	29
11		Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1’42.246	1.358	29
12		Nico Hülkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1’42.449	1.561	32
13		Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1’42.535	1.647	21
14		Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1’42.768	1.880	26
15		Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1’42.914	2.026	37
16		Nick Heidfeld	Sauber-Ferrari	1’42.950	2.062	34
17		Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’43.128	2.240	17
18		Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’43.584	2.696	33
19		Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1’45.180	4.292	36
20		Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1’45.259	4.371	31
21		Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1’45.612	4.724	35
22		Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1’46.053	5.165	29
23		Christian Klien	HRT-Cosworth	1’47.210	6.322	32
24		Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1’47.434	6.546	28

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