Friday, July 29, 2011

Practice Two: Hamilton's run continues

Lewis Hamilton's Hungarian run continued on Friday afternoon as the McLaren driver concluded Practice Two with the fastest time

Hamilton crossed the line with a 1:21.018, cementing his position as one of the front runners to take the victory come Sunday afternoon.

Second place went to Fernando Alonso with the Ferrari driver 0.241s off the pace while Jenson Button was third quickest.

The two Red Bulls were next in line with Mark Webber ahead of Sebastian Vettel with it coming as some surprise that the Bulls were half a second off the pace.

Felipe Massa was sixth quicket ahead of Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher.

Report: As rain moved towards the Hungaroring, Jaime Alguersuari got proceedings underway at the start of Friday's second practice, crossing the line with a 1:27.596. With drivers quickly putting in laps while the track was still dry, Sergio Perez went quickest ahead of Nick Heidfeld.After five minutes 12 drivers had already set times.

Vitaly Petrov then hit the front before losing out to Perez and then Lewis Hamilton and then Felipe Massa. The Ferrari driver lowered the benchmark time to a 1:22.928.

Sebastian Vettel took over from Massa at the front with a 1:22.666. Massa locked up and put his Ferrari into a spin down into Turn 12 while his team-mate Fernando Alonso went quickest, a tenth up on Vettel, before he was dropped as Jenson Button took the P1 slot by two-tenths. Mark Webber, coming back from his FP1 shunt, claimed sixth place in the early action. Alonso hit the front again with a 1:22.070.

After the initial assault on the timesheets it was down to the hard yards with the drivers putting in lap after lap with heavier fuel loads.

Alonso lowered the benchmark to a 1:21.259, eight-tenths up on Button's best. Hamilton overhauled the Ferrari by 0.241s while Webber climbed to fourth place. With the option tyres on his RB7, Vettel moved up to fifth place ahead of Massa, Rosberg and Michael Schumacher. Webber has another go on the option tyres but stays fourth.

Hamilton ended the session with a 1:21.018, 0.241s up on Alonso.

Times
01. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m21.018 29 laps
02. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m21.259 + 0.241 40 laps
03. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m21.322 + 0.304 34 laps
04. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m21.508 + 0.490 35 laps
05. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m21.549 + 0.531 31 laps
06. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m22.099 + 1.081 40 laps
07. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m22.121 + 1.103 36 laps
08. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m22.440 + 1.422 36 laps
09. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m22.835 + 1.817 40 laps
10. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1m22.981 + 1.963 37 laps
11. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m23.030 + 2.012 34 laps
12. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m23.399 + 2.381 37 laps
13. Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1m23.679 + 2.661 34 laps
14. Nick Heidfeld Renault 1m23.861 + 2.843 28 laps
15. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 1m24.181 + 3.163 39 laps
16. Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m24.182 + 3.164 26 laps
17. Vitaly Petrov Renault 1m24.546 + 3.528 21 laps
18. Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m24.878 + 3.860 35 laps
19. Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 1m24.994 + 3.976 38 laps
20. Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 1m25.447 + 4.429 39 laps
21. Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1m26.823 + 5.805 33 laps
22. Jerome D'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 1m27.261 + 6.243 28 laps
23. Daniel Ricciardo HRT-Cosworth 1m27.730 + 6.712 31 laps
24. Tonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 1m28.255 + 7.237 25 laps

Source: Planet-F1

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