The Australian, who finished second in last year's British GP, clocked a 1:31.234 during his 15 laps before being sidelined in the latter part of the session with an electrical problem. But despite sitting his garage, none of his rivals were able to overhaul Webber with Alonso coming the closest. However, he was 0.392s off the pace.
Sebastian Vettel was third quickest ahead of Felipe Massa and Nico Rosberg, the last driver to get within a second of Webber's P1 time.
Report: With the track temperature sitting at 42'C, Friday's second practice got underway with the drivers quickly getting down to work. Lucas di Grassi clocked the opening lap time, a 1:40.542, which was almost immediately beaten by Timo Glock and then Vitaly Petrov. Robert Kubica took second place behind his team-mate as new Hispania driver Sakon Yamamoto lined up behind the two Virgins with Karun Chandhok in sixth place.
Kubica was the next to lead the way with a 1:33.942 while Jenson Button slotted his McLaren into second place. Rubens Barrichello jumped to first place and Lewis Hamilton took fourth.
Fernando Alonso overhauled Kubica at the top only to lose out moments later as the Renault driver once again went quickest. However, his reigning was short-lived as Button was the next to lead the way only to be dropped by Barrichello, with a 1:33.058. Michael Schumacher jumped to third place, Alonso retook the lead and Felipe Massa, using the f-duct, went second.
With more rubber having been laid down between practices by the GP drivers, the drivers definitely had a much better time staying on the track, something many struggled to do over the new in-field section in Practice One.
Mark Webber took over Alonso at the top, a 1:32.118 for the Red Bull racer with Nico Rosberg taking second place, 0.7s adrift. Rosberg, though, soon dropped as Sebastian Vettel made it a Red Bull 1-2. The German became the first driver to run foul of the track when he lost his car around Stowe over the kerbs and put his RB6 in a slide. He was, however, able to continue.
Alonso finally broke Red Bull's stranglehold at the top, taking second place, 0.473s behind Webber. However, the Aussie, on his next run out, upped his pace, lowering the benchmark to a 1:31.957. Minutes later his team-mate Vettel joined him at the top of the timesheets while Rosberg went third quickest.
Hamilton had a high-speed wobble that took him off the track at Becketts with Massa then losing control at Village on his brand new set of rubber. His team-mate, though, put his new rubber to better use, improving his time although staying in third place behind the two Red Bulls. His next lap saw the Spaniard again move up to split the Red Bulls while Massa climbed to fourth place. Schumacher, who was in sixth place, ran wide at Brooklands corner and had to take to the grass before returning to the Merc GP garage.
With 15 minutes left on the clock, Button and Hamilton had registered the two highest speeds while the Force India's of Sutil and Liuzzi were next in line ahead of Rosberg's Mercedes GP.
The final few minutes saw the entire field barring Webber, who had an electrical problem, and Trulli, who's car had been stuck in the pits since almost the very beginning of the session, out on track. The other Lotus then ran into troubles with Heikki Kovalainen stopping out on track.
Friday's running ended with Webber at the top of the timesheets, ahead of Alonso, Vettel, Massa, Rosberg, Schumacher, Petrov and Hamilton.
Times:
01. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:31.234 15 laps
02. Alonso Ferrari 1:31.626 + 0.392 26 laps
03. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:31.875 + 0.641 24 laps
04. Massa Ferrari 1:32.099 + 0.865 25 laps
05. Rosberg Mercedes 1:32.166 + 0.932 29 laps
06. Schumacher Mercedes 1:32.660 + 1.426 27 laps
07. Petrov Renault 1:32.745 + 1.511 28 laps
08. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:32.757 + 1.523 22 laps
09. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:32.787 + 1.553 27 laps
10. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:32.967 + 1.733 32 laps
11. Kubica Renault 1:33.019 + 1.785 30 laps
12. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:33.164 + 1.930 28 laps
13. Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.200 + 1.966 24 laps
14. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:33.402 + 2.168 23 laps
15. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:33.728 + 2.494 27 laps
16. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:33.836 + 2.602 36 laps
17. de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:34.051 + 2.817 29 laps
18. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:34.643 + 3.409 36 laps
19. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:35.465 + 4.231 25 laps
20. di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:36.237 + 5.003 24 laps
21. Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:36.553 + 5.319 21 laps
22. Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:37.019 + 5.785 27 laps
23. Yamamoto HRT-Cosworth 1:38.303 + 7.069 32 laps
24. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:42.901 + 11.667 3 laps
Source: Planet-F1
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