2012 Brazilian Grand Prix FP2: Hamilton on top again

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