Kimi Raikkonen rose to the top of the timesheets at Sakhir on Friday afternoon, as he set the fastest time of the day for
Lotus in 1m 34.154s to beat
Mark Webber's Red Bull by 0.030s.
Webber, who lapped in 1m 34.184s, was followed by his team mate
Sebastian Vettel on 1m 34.282s, and the
Ferraris of
Fernando Alonso and
Felipe Massa which sandwiched
Paul di Resta's
Force India. Alonso posted 1m 34.310s, Di Resta 1m 34.543s and Massa 1m 34.552s.
In a session that was cloudier and cooler than this morning's Practice One - the track temperature varied between 39 and 41 degrees Celsius and the ambient between 32 and 33 degrees -
Romain Grosjean took seventh with 1m 34.631s in the other Lotus ahead of
Nico Rosberg's
Mercedes on 1m 34.666s,
Adrian Sutil's Force India on 1m 34.932s and
Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes on 1m 34.976s.
Once again there were few incidents. Hamilton ran wide in Turn One early on, and
Sauber's
Esteban Gutierrez and Caterham's
Charles Pic had a minor altercation in the final corner when each had to make room for the other.
Jenson Button was 11th for
McLaren on 1m 35.356s from Toro Rosso's
Jean-Eric Vergne on 1m 35.506s, team mate
Sergio Perez on 1m 35.589s and
Daniel Ricciardo in the other STR8 on 1m 35.761s.
Sauber continued to struggle, with Nico Hulkenberg 15th on 1m 36.133s from
Pastor Maldonado on 1m 36.279s ahead of his
Williams team mate
Valtteri Bottas on 1m 36.579s and Gutierrez on 1m 36.616s.
Pic showed the progress Caterham are making with the revised CT03 on his way to 1m 37.061s for 19th, as
Max Chilton just edged out
Marussia team mate
Jules Bianchi, with 1m 37.313s to 1m 37.363s.
Giedo van der Garde brought up the rear in his standard CT03, driven this morning by Heikki Kovalainen, on 1m 37.970s. (Formula1.com)
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