The 22 Formula One drivers completed another 801 laps of the Nurburgring circuit on Friday afternoon without any problems with Pirelli's revised tyres, as Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull jumped to the top of the timesheets ahead of Nico Rosbergs Mercedes.
Vettel recorded the best time of 1m 30.416s, but Rosberg was only 0.235s behind on 1m 30.651s. Red Bulls Mark Webber was next on 1m 30.683s, ahead of the very close-matched Lotuses of Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen on 1m 30.843s and 1m 30.848s respectively.
Everybody used the soft tyres during the 90-minute afternoon session, as well as doing distance runs on the mediums, and the 801 laps compared with only 458 this morning on the mediums as teams mainly looked just for one-lap pace.
Fernando Alonso recovered from his morning technical problems to run sixth on 1m 31.056s, with Ferrari team mate Felipe Massa right on his tail with 1m 31.059s. Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton should have done better than 1m 31.304s, but after setting a very quick first sector time he got sector two wrong on his one fast run on the softs and thereafter focused instead on race running.
Charles Pic and Giedo van der Garde were ahead of the Marussias in their Caterhams, with laps of 1m 33.695s and 1m 33.804s, compared to 1m 34.017s and 1m 34.667s for Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton. A poorly Bianchi only covered 10 laps before his team decided to rest him for the rest of the session. (Formula1.com)
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