
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 |
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