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Mark Webber led the way again in second practice for the Spanish Grand Prix, but there was encouragement for Red Bull’s rivals as McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was just 0.039 seconds off the pace as he split Webber and team-mate Sebastian Vettel.
Jenson Button took fourth in the other McLaren, 0.7s off the pace. Fernando Alonso was top Ferrari in fifth, a further 0.3s down and just ahead of the Mercedes. Both Alonso and Hamilton had enjoyed spells on top using hard tyres in the first half-hour before the soft-tyre runners came into play.
Felipe Massa was 0.8s off his Ferrari team-mate Alonso’s time in eighth, followed by Kamui Kobayashi’s Sauber.
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Formula 1: Mark Webber Fastest in Second Practice at Barcelona
Renault’s early switch to softs had given it a few minutes in the limelight mid-session, but by the end Nick Heidfeld and Vitaly Petrov were down in 10th and 12th, either side of the second Sauber of Sergio Perez. Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Sebastien Buemi soon got back in the groove after missing the morning session and lapped his Toro Rosso in 1m 25.296s to head Williams’ Rubens Barrichello on 1m 25.303s, Toro Rosso’s Jaime Alguersuari on 1m 25.457s and Pastor Maldonado on 1m 25.603s in the second Williams, while Force India just failed to breach 1m 26s with a best of 1m 26.073s courtesy of Paul di Resta. Behind him, Heikki Kovalainen continued Lotus’s upward swing with 1m 26.417s.
Beleaguered Adrian Sutil lost a good lap when he was blocked in his Force India by Schumacher, but subsequently could only improve anyway to 1m 27.123s, which left him just ahead of Jarno Trulli’s Lotus. The Italian’s morning problems with the power steering had been resolved and he lapped in 1m 27.189s. Formula 1
Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired 1 2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 01:22.5 2 3 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 01:22.5 3 1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 01:22.8 4 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 01:23.2 5 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 01:23.6 6 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 01:23.6 7 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 01:24.0 8 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 01:24.3 9 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 01:24.3 10 9 Nick Heidfeld Renault 01:24.4 11 17 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 01:24.5 12 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 01:24.8 13 18 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 01:25.3 14 11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 01:25.3 15 19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 01:25.5 16 12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 01:25.6 17 15 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 01:26.1 18 20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 01:26.4 19 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 01:27.1 20 21 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 01:27.2 21 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 01:28.0 22 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 01:28.1 23 22 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 01:29.5 24 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 01:29.5
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