Ferrari once again showed their dominance by finishing 1 - 2 in the second practice session today. Raikkonen who had gearbox problems in session 1 and only did 3 laps, had it repaired successfully in time for this second session.

Massa who was setting the fastest lap times early ended up with the 3rd fastest time on the day at 1:27.682. It was Lewis Hamilton who snuck into 2nd spot on a late fast lap just .036 seconds back of Raikkonen.

Hamilton is quick, but the McLaren still looks slow and clumsy through the slow speed corners suffering still from poor mechanical grip.

David Coulthard was a surprising 4th and didn’t have a crash with anyone, but Mark Webber did. Webber spun after riding the curbs and planted his car head on into the wall. This car is fragile. The impact wasn’t that great, but the damage to the car was pretty substantial. It was a curious crash because he buried the front end axle deep in the wall, but when bounced off, the front nose seemed totally in tact.

Robert Kubica who was typically quiet in practice finished with the 6th fastest time.

Although Hamilton pulled off the 2nd fastest time, the car doesn’t look great especially in the slow speed corners. I saw Lewis and Heikki lock the breaks a couple of times and saw lot of steering wheel correction, certainly more than Ferrari or BMW-Sauber.

Fernando Alonso was pretty quiet through practice, much quieter than in Spain obviously and maybe they aren’t quite where they were 2 weeks ago.

Friday Practice 2 Times

01 K. Räikkönen Ferrari 1:27.543 30 laps
02 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:27.579 31 laps
03 F. Massa Ferrari 1:27.682 29 laps
04 D. Coulthard Red Bull 1:27.763 24 laps
05 H. Kovalainen McLaren 1:27.954 27 laps
06 R. Kubica BMW 1:28.431 29 laps
07 J. Trulli Toyota 1:28.619 29 laps
08 K. Nakajima Williams 1:28.664 27 laps
09 F. Alonso Renault 1:28.681 26 laps
10 N. Heidfeld BMW 1:28.817 31 laps
11 J. Button Honda 1:28.826 28 laps
12 T. Glock Toyota 1:28.849 26 laps
13 N. Rosberg Williams 1:28.907 29 laps
14 G. Fisichella Force India F1 1:29.008 35 laps
15 R. Barrichello Honda 1:29.024 22 laps
16 N. Piquet jr. Renault 1:29.212 26 laps
17 S. Vettel Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:29.462 30 laps
18 S. Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:29.630 32 laps
19 M. Webber Red Bull 1:29.633 4 laps
20 A. Sutil Force India F1 1:30.832 9 laps

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