Alonso puts Ferrari on top in Monaco second practice

A special helmet seemed to help Alonso on the streets of Monaco

Fernando Alonso was the fastest driver on the super-soft tyres this afternoon in Monaco second practice.

A 1.15.123 was more than one and a half seconds faster than Vettel’s fastest attempt in TP1. The reigning world champion was half a second away from the Ferrari in 5th.

Lewis Hamilton was 2nd, while Nico Rosberg was again 3rd for Mercedes.

Michael Schumacher was able to join the session after his crash earlier today, and finished 7th. HRT driver Vitantonio Liuzzi was less lucky though, sitting out the entire session after slamming his car into the barriers in TP1.

Mark Webber was 1.5 seconds off the pace in 8th, having missed first practice due to a gearbox issue. Nick Heidfeld and Vitaly Petrov were 10th and 11th, the latter knocking off his front wing at the end of the tunnel near the end of the session.

Pastor Maldonado was unable to continue his impressive form from earlier, and was 15th. Paul di Resta was again slower than two drivers from the bottom 3, finishing 20th. However, this time the Force India suffered from a loss of drive 35 minutes into the session.

Times from TP2:

 1.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari                1.15.123           42
 2.  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes       1.15.228   0.105  33
 3.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes               1.15.321   0.198  44
 4.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1.15.448   0.325  38
 5.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault       1.15.667   0.544  46
 6.  Felipe Massa          Ferrari                1.15.781   0.658  45
 7.  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes               1.16.356   1.233  33
 8.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault       1.16.642   1.519  42
 9.  Adrian Sutil          Force India-Mercedes   1.17.101   1.978  46
10.  Nick Heidfeld         Renault                1.17.126   2.003  38
11.  Vitaly Petrov         Renault                1.17.337   2.214  35
12.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari         1.17.541   2.418  47
13.  Rubens Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth      1.17.570   2.447  39
14.  Sebastien Buemi       Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1.17.581   2.458  32
15.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Cosworth      1.17.633   2.510  49
16.  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari         1.17.706   2.583  37
17.  Jaime Alguersuari     Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1.17.789   2.666  43
18.  Heikki Kovalainen     Lotus-Renault          1.18.266   3.143  50
19.  Jarno Trulli          Lotus-Renault          1.18.490   3.367  39
20.  Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercedes   1.19.053   3.930  15
21.  Jerome D'Ambrosio     Virgin-Cosworth        1.19.185   4.062  40
22.  Timo Glock            Virgin-Cosworth        1.19.338   4.215  35
23.  Narain Karthikeyan    HRT-Cosworth           1.22.066   6.943  33

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