McLaren lead wet Friday Practice 2

Lewis Hamilton during Friday Practice 2

The McLaren duo of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button headed the pack in Friday Practice 2 today, as showers at the start of the session disrupted the runnings.

Both of these drivers set their fastest laps in between the two showers which struck at the start of the session. The track dried out mostly by the end of the session, and slicks were being used by the end. This included Mark Webber, who took third place near the end on hard tyres. Behind him, Michael Schumacher was fourth, also taking on slicks at the end.

Paul di Resta did not feature in this session, as Adrian Sutil retook the car. He finished the session seventh, one-thousandth of a second behind his team-mate Vitantonio Liuzzi.

The Ferraris were caught out by the changing conditions, and Feranando Alonso and Felipe Massa took 15th and 17th places respectively. Alonso ended up 3.2 seconds behind Hamilton, with Massa a further half-second back.

HRT struggled hugely in this session. Bruno Senna’s car was unable to run at all, while Karun Chandhok stopped at the end of pit exit on his first outing, meaning neither set a lap time, although Chandhok has been credited with 1 lap in the official timing. Neither of the cars’ problems has been accounted for yet.

Lucas di Grassi did little better for Virgin. He got 2 installation laps in, but no fast lap time, so he ended up 22nd.

Pictures will be added in a separate article later.

Times from Friday Practice 2:

	Driver	Team	Time	Difference	# of laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1.25.801		13
2	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1.26.076	0.275	16
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1.26.248	0.447	22
4	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1.26.511	0.710	16
5	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1.26.732	0.931	26
6	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1.26.832	1.031	29
7	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1.26.834	1.033	22
8	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1.26.835	1.034	17
9	Rubens Barichello	Williams-Cosworth	1.26.904	1.103	25
10	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1.26.956	1.155	22
11	Robert Kubica	Renault	1.27.108	1.307	28
12	Pedro de la Rosa	Sauber-Ferrari	1.27.108	1.307	25
13	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1.27.455	1.654	23
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1.27.545	1.744	25
15	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1.29.025	3.224	20
16	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1.29.134	3.333	19
17	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1.29.591	3.790	21
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1.29.860	4.059	15
19	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1.30.510	4.709	43
20	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1.30.695	4.894	17
21	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1.32.117	6.316	9
22	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth			2
23	Karun Chandhok	HRT-Cosworth			1
24	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth			0