2012 Brazilian Grand Prix FP2: Hamilton on top again

2012 Brazilian Grand Prix FP2: Hamilton on top again
Photo: Morio / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Lewis Hamilton picked up from where he left off by going quickest again during the second free practice session for the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix.

Hamilton set a 1m14.026s to slightly improve on his initial time, followed by Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel who was 3 tenths down in second place.

The drivers during the second session weren’t as closely matched with Webber a further 2 tenths away from Vettel, ahead of the Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso.

Mercedes drivers Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg came sixth and seventh; the former will be celebrating his last Grand Prix in Formula 1 this weekend.

Jenson Button, Romain Grosjean and Paul Di Resta rounded out the top 10 spots.

 

 
Pos  Driver                Team                  Time          Laps
 1.  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes      1m14.026s           
 2.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault      1m14.300s  + 0.274  
 3.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault      1m14.523s  + 0.497 
 4.  Felipe Massa          Ferrari               1m14.553s  + 0.527 
 5.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari               1m14.592s  + 0.566  
 6.  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes              1m14.654s  + 0.628  
 7.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes              1m14.669s  + 0.643  
 8.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes      1m14.863s  + 0.837  
 9.  Romain Grosjean       Lotus-Renault         1m14.994s  + 0.968  
10.  Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercedes  1m15.129s  + 1.103  
11.  Nico Hulkenberg       Force India-Mercedes  1m15.131s  + 1.105  
12.  Kimi Raikkonen        Lotus-Renault         1m15.371s  + 1.345  
13.  Bruno Senna           Williams-Renault      1m15.432s  + 1.406  
14.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari        1m15.542s  + 1.516  
15.  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari        1m15.839s  + 1.813  
16.  Daniel Ricciardo      Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m15.902s  + 1.876 
17.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Renault      1m15.953s  + 1.927 
18.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m16.048s  + 2.022 
19.  Vitaly Petrov         Caterham-Renault      1m16.126s  + 2.100 
20.  Heikki Kovalainen     Caterham-Renault      1m16.655s  + 2.629  
21.  Pedro de la Rosa      HRT-Cosworth          1m17.244s  + 3.218 
22.  Timo Glock            Marussia-Cosworth     1m17.675s  + 3.649  
23.  Charles Pic           Marussia-Cosworth     1m18.127s  + 4.101  
24.  Narain Karthikeyan    HRT-Cosworth          1m18.139s  + 4.113

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