A heavy shower with 42 minutes of the second free practice session still to run ended an entertaining battle for supremacy at the Hungaroring on Friday afternoon. But though the times were as tight as ever it was interesting that
Lewis Hamilton still had the upper hand for
McLaren.
Hamilton lapped in 1m 21.995s, for the second time in the day being in a time bracket all on his own, while Kimi Raikkonen got closest with 1m 22.180s for dark horse
Lotus.
Bruno Senna made up for the time lost handing his
Williams FW34 over to
Valtteri Bottas to run third with 1m 22.253s, with the
Ferraris of
Felipe Massa and
Fernando Alonso next up on 1m 22.417s and 1m 22.582s.
Jenson Button was sixth in the second McLaren with 1m 22.747s ahead of
Paul di Resta in the leading
Force India on 1m 22.794s.
Sebastian Vettel was only eighth for Red Bull with 1m 22.824s, with Lotuss
Romain Grosjean rounding out those under 1m 23s with 1m 22.922s.
Michael Schumacher was
Mercedes lead runner again with 1m 23.160s but had team mate
Nico Rosberg right with him on 1m 23.164s. The veteran was one of the first to go out later when the track was at its worst, but damaged his W03 mildly after aquaplaning into the tyre wall at Turn 12.
Pastor Maldonado was 12th in the second Williams on 1m 23.337s, with Nico Hulkenberg taking over his Force India from
Jules Bianchi to post 1m 23.713s. Red Bulls
Mark Webber was only 14th on 1m 23.814s with
Saubers
Kamui Kobayashi next on 1m 23.841s. Then came the Toro Rossos with
Jean-Eric Vergne ahead of
Daniel Ricciardo, with 1m 24.328s to 1m 24.345s. Saubers
Sergio Perez followed them with 1m 24.623s.
Caterham reverted
Vitaly Petrov to the Valencia set-up in a bid to find pace and the Russian lapped his CT-01 in 1m 24.823s as Heikki Kovalainen with the latest configuration couldnt better 1m 25.220s. Then there was a big gap to the final four, where
Timo Glock lapped his
Marussia in 1m 27.104s to head
Pedro de la Rosas
HRT on 1m 27.106s, team mate
Charles Pic on 1m 27.185s and
Narain Karthikeyan on 1m 27.822s in the other HRT.
Even before the rain there were plenty of minor incidents, with Massa, Schumacher, De la Rosa, Alonso, Di Resta, Maldonado, Vergne and Kovalainen going off road at times. The rain also upset a lot of the days planned running, obliging teams to switch from the medium Pirellis to the soft sooner than they had planned. (Formula1.com)
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