Hungarian GP - FP2 - There is no stopping for Hamilton at the moment

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Hungarian Grand Prix - Hungaroring, Budapest - Free Practice Session 2, Friday

Lewis Hamilton continue to dominate at the top with scoring fastest lap in both the practice session. Mclaren is looking even more stronger after the German Grand Prix win.

All the teams tested for Super soft option tyres and Hamilton got with 1min 21.018sec which was a sec slower than last year best practice time.

Track Talk

Track Temp: 26deg Cel. and Air Temp: 21deg Cel.

Tyres tested by teams were Soft and Super Soft Option Compound.

Red Bull is either hiding their true speed due to heavy fuel levels or have gone behind Mclaren and Ferrari. Both the Red Bull drivers finished 4th and 5th with world champion Sebastian Vettel again lagging behind Mark Webber. However Mark Webber is running on a newer front wing.

B'day Boy Fernando Alonso squeezed between the two Mclarens at 2nd position and was only 2tenth of a second slower than Hamilton.

Ferrari and Mclaren both practiced for longer runs in the second half of the 2nd session with Alonso completing a massive 40laps which is not bettered by any other driver but equalled by teammate Felipe Massa who finished at 6th and Paul Di Resta for Force India F1 at 9th.

Felipe Massa took an early spin in the first 15mins in Turn 12 after losing on the DRS Zone but recovered well with no damage done.

Both the Mercedes struggle for pace in the soft tyres and finished 7th and 8th on super soft more than a second behind the fastest man Hamilton.

Adrian Sutil in the second Force India F1 finished 10th behind his teammate.

The top 8 slots were occupied by the best 4 with Force India occupying the next two slots bettering Sauber and Renault.

Happy Camp Sauber was at 11th and 12th.

There will be battle for last points scoring positions between Force India, Sauber and Renault over the weekend.

Rubens Barrichello in heavily upgraded Williams was only 13th fastest. His car was running with new rear wing. Earlier they have bought new suspension, new front wing to upgrade their aerodynamics performance.

Nick Heidfeld in the leading Renault could finished only 14th followed by second Williams of Pastor Maldonado.

The Toro Rosso sandwiched the second Renault of Vitaly Petrov behind Maldonado.

At the back, scenario continues with Team Lotus ahead of Virgin and then followed by HRT at the back.

But only this time Lotus driver Jarno Trulli beating teammate Heikki Kovalainen for 19th and HRT driver Daniel Ricciardo beating teammate Vitantonio Liuzzi for 23rd.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 21.018sec		29
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 21.259sec	0.241	40
3	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 21.322sec	0.304	34
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 21.508sec	0.490	35
5	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	1min 21.549sec	0.531	31
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 22.099sec	1.081	40
7	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1min 22.121sec	1.103	36
8	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1min 22.440sec	1.422	36
9	Paul Di Resta	Force India - Mercedes	1min 22.835sec	1.817	40
10	Adrian Sutil	Force India - Mercedes	1min 22.981sec	1.963	37
11	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 23.030sec	2.012	34
12	Sergio Perez	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 23.399sec	2.381	37
13	Rubens Barrichello	Williams - Cosworth	1min 23.679sec	2.661	34
14	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1min 23.861sec	2.843	28
15	Pastor Maldonado	Williams - Cosworth	1min 24.181sec	3.163	39
16	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 24.182sec	3.164	26
17	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 24.546sec	3.528	21
18	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	1min 24.878sec	3.860	35
19	Jarno Trulli	Lotus - Renault	1min 24.994sec	3.976	38
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus - Renault	1min 25.447sec	4.429	39
21	Timo Glock	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 26.823sec	5.805	33
22	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 27.261sec	6.243	28
23	Daniel Ricciardo	STR - Ferrari	1min 27.730sec	6.712	31
24	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	1min 28.255sec	7.237	25