Every time that I see a few training free I start thinking about the same, that times are not significant with a view to the classification of the Saturday, but the truth is that some free sessions give enough information, or at least it is the feeling that I take from this second batch.
Sebastian Vettel again in first position with a record of 1'37. 688 followed by Lewis Hamilton in 0.166 seconds, Button, Rosberg, Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa. After these first six colaba Sutil and the two Renault, Heidfeld and Petrov by that order, and Mark Webber to complete the top 10. Fernando Alonso marks the 14 best record after hydraulic problems and Alguersuari was placed behind the Ferrari in 15th position. The two HRT have been ahead of D'Ambrosio, Glock and Di Resta.
Even there the quick summary. There are several things that I would like to comment, because it is clear that it can crash to see Fernando Alonso the fourteenth or Mark Webber 10th as Sebastian Vettel breaks the cronos or Massa is sixth (by commenting on the two couples of pilots). And we must also discuss the good records of Hamilton and Jenson Button, which does not seem so far today and who also made times throughout the session.
Fact: the temperature of the track has gone down during the session, since the 35 ° C at the start to 32 ° C at the end of the same. The air temperature has remained between 27 ° C and 26 ° C at the end of the session. This has been able to influence time significantly.
Nico Rosberg marked the refefencia in the first third of the session with a Cronus of 1'38. 912, the fastest of the home and continued to fall until its final time, 1'37. 943 (fourth position) Michael Schumacher did not get down to 37, but we have seen the two Mercedes quite fast in a consistent way.
Both Renault have been close in time, just 54 thousandths of a second difference between Heidfeld and Petrov. I expected something more, but still free practice there why alarmed. Heidfeld has become to have excursion off track but less serious in the previous free, because that has been able to return to track by itself although he would go through boxes to fix the flaws.
Things have been regular for HRT. On the one hand Narain Karthikeyan has been able to shoot 25 laps, staying 5,214 seconds from Vettel and Liuzzi, D'Ambrosio, glock and Di Resta (who did not come out this time). On the other we saw Liuzzi despairing while he saw work in box of their mechanics, but in the end it was unable to make a fleeting output to make a Cronus and it has been placed to 950 thousandth of the Hindu. For a single turn, good result and do not seem so far away from his rivals, sincerely.
We are now going with what most expected to comment on. First, Fernando Alonso had a hydraulic car problem that has been stopped much of the session in review by the mechanics. Went missing when finally less than 10 minutes to the end to test the soft wheels, quedandoel 14th but with the feeling of the pneumatic option. The truth is that I wouldn't you worry about this position seeing how has gone Massa during the long wave that has been done in 1'43 (with harsh).
And Mark webber. We have seen him make a long series of laps with fuel at the top, have in fact been no more than 15 laps (say no more because not is how many have been in total, but between 12-15 laps probably) scoring a best time of 1'44. 425. This found me a coach for the first stint of the race on Sunday, then see how walking times, but it seems a good clue (taking into account the conditions of the track). Meanwhile, Vettel test pure speed.
Tomorrow we will return with free 3 and classification for this exciting Chinese Grand Prix.
