Hungarian Grand Prix: Friday’s Second Practice Session
Ferrari was back in action during the second practice session at Hungaroring, for the Hungarian Grand Prix this Friday. After the most controversial finish of this season during the German Grand Prix last Sunday the team vowed time and again to have a few more great finishes before the season ends.
As the session ended the results showed that McLaren was slow, Ferrari was fast and Red Bull was faster. Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull was able to stay at the top almost all through the afternoon followed by his teammate Mark Webber. However, during the closing laps the tally altered as Fernando Alonso was able to beat Webber ending up second fastest of the session.
Sebastian Vettel aced everyone with 1m 20.087s, whereas Alonso was 0.497s short of the topper with 1m 20.584s. The same pattern was followed again for the third and fourth places as Red Bull’s Mark Webber ended with 1m 20.597s, followed by Ferrari’s Felipe Massa who was fourth with 1m 20.986s.
The surprise of the day was the fifth place finish of Vitaly Petrov of Renault who was able to beat some of the fastest drivers of the season with his 1m 21.195s. Once again the McLaren’s, Lewis Hamilton, the chart topper of the season was not able to be among the top men of the day and ended at sixth place with 1m 21.308s but he was happy with the balance of his McLaren car. The other Renault driver Robert Kubica was able to end at seventh place with1m 21.375s.
The rookie driver for Williams, Nico Hulkenberg was able to do very good as he ended with 1m 21.623s while the other McLaren driver, Jenson Button came wheeling in on 1m 21.730s, barely reaching ninth place.
This time Michael Schumacher was able to beat the other Mercedes driver by ending at tenth place on 1m 21.773s while his teammate, Nico Rosberg made it to the thirteenth place with 1:22.039.
The eleventh fastest lap of the afternoon was marked by Pedro de la Rosa in his BMW Sauber with 1m 21.809s, followed by Rubens Barrichello in the second Williams finishing with 1m 21.844s.
Kamui Kobayashi was the man who had the most off-track moments of the day in his BMW Sauber while making it up to 1m 22.212s. Jaime Alguersuari struggled with his Toro Rosso with 1m 22.469s to lead his team, while his partner, Sebastian Buemi ended at seventeenth with 1m 22.602s.
The two Toro Rosso’s sandwiched Adrian Sutil of Force India, who was running with the blown diffuser for this race and clocked his best at 1m 22.507s. While the second Force India man, Vitantonio Liuzzi ran his VJM03 without the new diffuser, and set his best in 1m 23.138s and left the day on eighteenth place.
The Cosworth run team, Lotus had one of its drivers, Jarno Trulli stand at nineteenth place whereas his teammate Heikki Kovalainen marked the last place of the day with 1m 24.553s and 1m 27.705s respectively.
The other Cosworth team Virgin had its two racers, Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi end at twentieth and twenty first places in 1m 25.376s and 1m 25.669s slots successively, followed by the two HRT drivers. Bruno Senna ended at twenty-second place followed by teammate Sakon Yamamoto for the second last place of the day, having 1m 26.745s and 1m 26.798s respectively.
The day did not have any big issues or severe incident however, the Lotus driver Heikki Kovalainen was only able to complete five laps before he became a victim of mechanical faults.
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