Spanish GP - Practice Session 2 - Webber in hunt to make it two times at Barcelona

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Friday Practice Session - 2, Spanish Grand Prix, Circuit De Catalunya, Barcelona

Mark Webber continues to put pressure on fellow drivers as he put forward the consecutive fastest time on the Barcelona Circuit. But this time around, it was not Red Bull 1-2. It was Lewis Hamilton who edges closer to take away the top position from Webber. He was only 3 hundredth of a second slower to that of Mark Webber.

In the second practice session, almost all the teams opted for prime tyres (new harder compound tyres) during the initial run and option (softer compound tyres) tyres for second run. Option tyres adds almost 3-4 sec to a lap.

Sebastian Vettel was only able to put the third fastest time in his Red Bull. Jenson Button closing in on 4th ensures that Mclaren is back in hunt to Red Bulls just like the start of the season. Fernando Alonso Ferrari was 5th but it was a second slower to that of Mark Webber.

Nico Rosberg once again outpaced his teammate Michael Schumacher for 6th as Schumi grabs the tail of Nico for 7th.

Felipe Massa had a better run this time but still a long way to go for the Ferrari driver. Kamui Kobayashi also improved on his first practice session to finished 9th on the charts. The 10th position was held by Nick Heidfeld in his Renault again beating his teammate who was positioned 12th on the timesheet. Sergio Perez covers the other Sauber for 11th.

Sebastien Buemi running for his first run of the day saw him finished 13th fastest ahead of Williams leading man Rubens Barrichello followed by Jaime Alguersuari in another Toro Rosso. Maldonado drove on track this time and came home 16th.

It was a bad day for Force India as they fail to improve on their Session 1 time. Also were not able to finish not more than 17th. To make the condition worse, Heikki Kovalainen in the much improved Lotus separates the two Force India VJM04 for 18th. Paul was 3.6sec slower than the front running Mark Webber. On the other hand, Adrian Sutil was further 1sec slower than Paul Di Resta. In their late run, they tried there option tyres which saw them climb to 17th otherwise they would have finished the 2nd session in the last position.

Lotus has improved a lot on their times.

Virgin and HRT take their respective positions at the back.

If today's time is considered as the time for Qualifying, HRT will not be able to qualify for Spanish Grand Prix according to 107% Qualifying Rule.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 22.470sec		35
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 22.509sec	0.039	27
3	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	1min 22.826sec	0.356	37
4	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 23.188sec	0.718	32
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 23.568sec	1.098	34
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1min 23.586sec	1.116	35
7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1min 23.981sec	1.511	30
8	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 24.278sec	1.808	30
9	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 24.290sec	1.820	33
10	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1min 24.366sec	1.896	31
11	Sergio Perez	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 24.483sec	2.013	38
12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 24.786sec	2.316	43
13	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	1min 25.296sec	2.826	33
14	Rubens Barrichello	Williams - Cosworth	1min 25.303sec	2.833	38
15	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 25.457sec	2.987	34
16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams - Cosworth	1min 25.603sec	3.133	43
17	Paul Di Resta	Force India - Mercedes	1min 26.073sec	3.603	32
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus - Renault	1min 26.417sec	3.947	37
19	Adrian Sutil	Force India - Mercedes	1min 27.123sec	4.653	20
20	Jarno Trulli	Lotus - Renault	1min 27.189sec	4.719	34
21	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 28.036sec	5.566	36
22	Timo Glock	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 28.062sec	5.592	28
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT - Cosworth	1min 29.469sec	6.999	28
24	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	1min 29.476sec	7.006	31