German Grand Prix - FP2 - Webber steal the show from Ferrari

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German Grand Prix, Nurburgring Circuit - Friday Practice Session 2 Result

Mark Webber steal the show from the Ferrari as both Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa could not able to beat the time. Even Webber's time was a challenge for the current World Champion and 2011season leader Sebastian Vettel who failed to improve from 3rd position.

Free Practice Session 2 come more as a fight between Ferrari and Red Bull while Mclaren was out of contention. But this time around, it was Mercedes who up their pace to come within 1sec relegation of the leader Mark Webber.

A lot of incidents captured the eyes of the spectator with a speculation to loads of drama coming into the race. Chandhok and Sutil spun the car, while many drivers went out onto the grass and gravel trap. Drivers find it difficult to drive in Sector 1 and Sector 8. 10mins into the race, HRT Rookie driver Daniel Ricciardo engine was blown as smoke came out of his car. Timo Glock was onto the gravel then trapped in wet grass as he went off the track in sector 8 nearly missing the tyre barrier. Kovalainen repeated his manoeuver of the morning and seen on the gravel in sector 8.

As the session started, it was soon captured by Fernando Alonso on the top which was later challenged only by his teammate Felipe Massa that too for a short while.

Mark Webber with the soft compound tyres hit the Ferrari with the best time which he further improved by 5hundredth of a second.

Fernando Alonso in 2nd position had a good run in this practice session as well. Alonso also went on to the grass and gravel as he explore the limits to breaking. At one stage, he nearly escape the back of Michael Schumacher car.

Sebastian Vettel had a lonely run without any problems to the third place. Felipe Massa with the decent run was in 4th position.

Mercedes has a good outing in the second session. Michael Schumacher who had some problems with the brakes in the first session have spent much of the early part of the second session in pits but then came out flying to the top. The 7 time world champion was only 7tenth of a second slower than Mark Webber.

Nico Rosberg followed his teammate for 6th.

Lewis Hamilton made only to 7th position as Mclaren struggle for grip and pace in the second session. Renault come high again, as they up their speed and were lapping only a little more than a second to Red Bull. Nick Heidfeld suffered from rear exhaust problem and spent much times in pits while mechanics repaired his car.

Adrian Sutil only able to make it to 10th position for the Force India.

Jenson Button struggles as his MP4-26 has KERS issues. He was not able to participate in the later part of FP2 and finished in 11th position.

Rookie Paul Di Resta on his first run of the day finished 12th.

Sergio Perez in Sauber was only 13th followed by Rubens Barrichello in Williams. Rubens Barrichello had some problem with the car and had to pull the car in pits in the beginning of the session.

Jaime Alguersuari was 14th followed by Kamui Kobayashi. Sauber continued to struggle for pace.

Pastor Maldonado was 17th in the second Williams.

Heikki Kovalainen was 18th with an improvement in the lap time for him. He was followed by Timo Glock who had some issues with the car in the morning and also nearly escape the tyre barrier.

Karun Chandhok for the first time driving in FP2 took his time adjusting with the race track and Lotus car. As the team prepared the brakes for him, he remained in pits for quite a long time during the second session.

Virgin regained the pace they were lacking the morning session as they beat the HRT once again. Liuzzi drove the car for the first time today was only 22nd ahead of his new teammate Daniel Ricciardo who could not participate in the second session due to the blown engine.

Sebastien Buemi did not participated in the second session due to some misfiring of the rpm between 16000-18000.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 31.711sec		34
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 31.879sec	0.168	38
3	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	1min 32.084sec	0.373	28
4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 32.354sec	0.643	36
5	Michael Schmacher	Mercedes GP	1min 32.411sec	0.700	31
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1min 32.557sec	0.846	32
7	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 32.724sec	1.013	28
8	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1min 33.098sec	1.387	17
9	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 33.138sec	1.427	22
10	Adrian Sutil	Force India - Mercedes	1min 33.211sec	1.500	34
11	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 33.225sec	1.514	17
12	Paul Di Resta	Force India - Mercedes	1min 33.299sec	1.588	34
13	Sergio Perez	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 34.113sec	2.402	34
14	Rubens Barrichello	Williams - Cosworth	1min 34.344sec	2.633	34
15	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 34.487sec	2.776	37
16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 34.491sec	2.780	35
17	Pastor Maldonado	Williams - Cosworth	1min 34.996sec	3.285	35
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus - Renault	1min 35.753sec	4.042	42
19	Timo Glock	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 36.940sec	5.229	32
20	Karun Chandhok	Lotus - Renault	1min 37.248sec	5.537	33
21	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 37.313sec	5.602	33
22	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	1min 38.145sec	6.434	31
23	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT - Cosworth	1min 40.737sec	9.026	5
24	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	No Time		3