Vettel stays on top in China second practice

Vettel stayed on top in second practice

Sebastian Vettel retained his lead in second practice for the Chinese Grand Prix.

He was one tenth of a second faster than Lewis Hamilton, who led his teammate Jenson Button in the McLaren.

The Mercedes duo of Rosberg and Schumacher were 4th and 5th. Felipe Massa was 6th, while a hydraulic issue limited Fernando Alonso to 14th place.

Mark Webber was 1.6 seconds slower than Sebastian in 10th, while both Renaults were in the top 10, with Nick Heidfeld 8th and Vitaly Petrov 9th.

For the second session in a row, the Virgin cars were beaten by HRT, with both Karthikeyan and Liuzzi comfortably ahead of D’Ambrosio and Glock. Only Timo was outside the 107% rule, by 0.2 seconds.

Paul di Resta failed to set a lap, after a fuel pressure problem.

Times from China FP2:

 1.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault       1.37.688             34
 2.  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes       1.37.854  	0.166  22
 3.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1.37.935  	0.247  31
 4.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes               1.37.943  	0.255  34
 5.  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes               1.38.105  	0.417  29
 6.  Felipe Massa          Ferrari                1.38.507  	0.819  36
 7.  Adrian Sutil          Force India-Mercedes   1.38.735  	1.047  35
 8.  Nick Heidfeld         Renault                1.38.805  	1.117  26
 9.  Vitaly Petrov         Renault                1.38.859 	1.171  31
10.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault       1.39.327 	1.639  33
11.  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari         1.39.538 	1.850  33
12.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Cosworth      1.39.667  	1.979  37
13.  Sebastien Buemi       Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1.39.771  	2.083  18
14.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari                1.39.779  	2.091  17
15.  Jaime Alguersuari     Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1.39.828  	2.140  25
16.  Rubens Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth      1.39.925  	2.237  32
17.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari         1.39.953  	2.265  30
18.  Heikki Kovalainen     Lotus-Renault          1.40.476  	2.788  30
19.  Jarno Trulli          Lotus-Renault          1.41.482  	3.794  32
20.  Narain Karthikeyan    HRT-Cosworth           1.42.902  	5.214  25
21.  Tonio Liuzzi          HRT-Cosworth           1.43.850  	6.162   3
22.  Jerome D'Ambrosio     Virgin-Cosworth        1.44.008  	6.320  35
23.  Timo Glock            Virgin-Cosworth        1.44.747  	7.059  12
24.  Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercedes   N/A                   0

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