Australian GP - Practice Session 2 - Mclaren made a surprise comeback

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Friday Practice Session - 2, Qantas Australian Grand Prix, Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia

It was Mclaren who had stolen the show in the Friday's 2nd Practice Session. Mclaren Duo made a commendable comeback after being outpaced by front runner in the Pre-Season Testing. It seems that Mclaren's last minute brush up with the exhaust paid a lot and brought them back in contention for World Championship.

Session started with the clouds above but fortunately no rain. All the teams participated except for HRT whose parts for F111 are still not ready.

Mclaren duo were in 1min 25sec as the only drivers reaching the mark. Alonso again posted the 3rd fastest lap time as looking strong for the race. Following Alonso came home the two Red Bulls followed by 7 time world champion Michael Schumacher.

Rookie driver Sergio Perez surprised all setting the 8th fastest time with 1min 27.101sec.

Paul Di Resta made his debut run of the season for the first time as replacing Nico Hulkenberg from Practice Session 1. He was just 2tenth of a second faster than his team mate Adrian Sutil.

In the end, it was Vitantonio Liuzzi out of the garage as HRT finally prepared one of there car, but did not posted the time for the Team.

Lot of incident involving cars running off-track were a common sight in the session majorly involved Timo Glock, Sebastien Buemi, Vitaly Petrov, Heikki Kovalainen, Adrian Sutil and Rubens Barrichello, but nobody did any damage.

Under the current time sheets and rule changes, If Virgin Racing and untested HRT posted the same times as of their Practice Session then they will not qualify the 107percent Rule during tomorrow's qualifying session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 25.854sec		32
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 25.986sec	0.132	31
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 26.001sec	0.147	28
4	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	1min 26.014sec	0.160	35
5	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 26.283sec	0.429	33
6	Michael Schmacher	Mercedes GP	1min 26.590sec	0.736	31
7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 26.789sec	0.935	34
8	Sergio Perez	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 27.101sec	1.247	39
9	Rubens Barrichello	Williams - Cosworth	1min 27.280sec	1.426	34
10	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1min 27.448sec	1.594	23
11	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 27.525sec	1.671	31
12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 27.528sec	1.674	29
13	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1min 27.536sec	1.682	22
14	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	1min 27.697sec	1.843	30
15	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 28.095sec	2.241	35
16	Paul Di Resta	Force India - Mercedes	1min 28.376sec	2.522	33
17	Adrian Sutil	Force India - Mercedes	1min 28.583sec	2.729	31
18	Pastor Maldonado	Williams - Cosworth	1min 29.386sec	3.532	29
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus - Renault	1min 30.829sec	4.975	22
20	Jarno Trulli	Lotus - Renault	1min 30.912sec	5.058	23
21	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 32.106sec	6.252	36
22	Timo Glock	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 32.135sec	6.281	30
23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	No Time		1
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT - Cosworth	No Time		0