[Jack_Bauer]

Second practice honours go to McLaren and Lewis Hamilton who set comfortably the fastest time of the session with a few minutes remaining. He was almost a second ahead of P2, Mark Webber causing some real surprises with a really strong session. He was backed up by his teammate Coulthard in fifth after a seriously curtailed couple of sessions. Red Bull are looking pretty damn quick so far this weekend!

Ferrari were there or thereabouts all session, although Felipe Massa very nearly had a big shunt after losing the back end under braking and skidding to a halt just inches from the barriers. He wasn't the only one having difficulties this session with the lack of electronic assistance under braking. There were numerous instances of people locking an inside rear under braking and nearly spinning out, with several of them resulting in trips across the grass or gravel. Fernando Alonso was one of the more high profile off-track explorers, and he seemed to struggle all session with a rather wayward handling Renault. His teammate Piquet fared even worse after spinning out in Practice 1. This time he lost most of the session with some kind of gremlin in his braking system. Veteran Italians Giancarlo Fisichella and Jarno Trulli both had sizeable spins, with Trulli ending the session with his Toyota beached in the gravel trap. It was an otherwise quite impressive day for Toyota and Force India though.

In the predicted fierce battle in the midfield the early indications are that Red Bull and Toyota have the upper hand. Williams looked reasonably good but didn't set the world alight, and BMW and Renault definitely had days to forget. Honda had a pretty decent second session, indicating that maybe they did make some progress in their private test in Jerez last week, as they aren't sucking quite as bad as many expected them to! Poor Super Aguri should just be happy that they're capable of going racing at all this weekend, but they are clearly going to struggle quite badly to start with this season. It'll be a long hard weekend for Sato and Davison.

Friday Practice 2

1. Hamilton - 1:26.559
2. Webber - 1:27.473
3. Massa - 1:27.640
4. Kovalainen - 1:27.683
5. Coulthard - 1:28.037
6. Raikkonen - 1:28.208
7. Trulli - 1:28.292
8. Rosberg - 1:28.352
9. Fisichella - 1:28.469
10. Glock - 1:28.582
11. Button - 1:28.632
12. Heidfeld - 1:28.731
13. Alonso - 1:28.779
14. Barrichello - 1:28.849
15. Kubica - 1:28.860
16. Nakajima - 1:29.077
17. Sutil - 1:29.161
18. Vettel - 1:29.191
19. Piquet - 1:29.518
20. Bourdais - 1:29.605
21. Sato - 1:30.663
22. Davidson - 1:31.527