GP Australia, Free Practice 2: Schumacher the fastest

Best time for Michael Schumacher in the second free practice session of the Australian GP, ​​the first race of the 2012 Formula 1 season. In Melbourne, the seven-time world champion took the lead in the final moments of the afternoon free practice session on Friday with a time of 1.29.183. XNUMX, overtaking Nico Hulkenberg (Force India), one tenth behind.

Sergio Perez is third with Sauber. The torrential rain that fell during the break between the two sessions made most of Free Practice 2 useless and with the intermediates Perez and Schumacher were the fastest and the teams then chose not to take risks on a track with very low grip at the time .

Only in the last 20 minutes did the session liven up with the use of slicks and Hulkenberg engaged in a good battle with Schumacher for the lead in the standings. The Force India driver had mounted the soft tyres, the German from Mercedes the medium tyres. In the end the seven-time world champion prevailed ahead of Hulkenberg and Perez while Fernando Alonso set the fourth fastest time with the Ferrari ahead of the Sauber of Kamui Kobayashi, author of a control at the limit on the last corner of his last lap .

Felipe Massa is seventh with the other Ferrari ahead of Heikki Kovalainen (Caterham), Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) and world champion Sebastian Vettel, tenth with Red Bull.

Mild "caution" pace for McLaren in this second session: Jenson Button is 15th ahead of Lewis Hamilton. Several off-track exits onto the grass and escape routes: errors for Perez, Jean-Eric Vergne, Webber and Kovalainen, no contact with the barriers.

F1 GP Australia – Times and Results Free Practice 2

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m29.183s 16 2. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m29.292s + 0.109 19 3. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m30.199s + 1.016 23 4. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m30.341s + 1.158 13 5. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m30.709s + 1.526 14 6. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m31.466s + 2.283 13 7. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m31.505s + 2.322 14 8. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1 m31.932. 2.749s + 16 9 1. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 32.184m3.001s + 17 10 1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 32.194m3.011s + 19 11 1. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 32.296m3.113s + 20 12 1. Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 32.632m3.449s + 17 13 1. Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 32.767m3.584s + 15 14 1. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 32.822m3.639s + 11 15 1. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 33.039m3.856s + 18 16 1. Lewis Hamilton McLaren -Mercedes 33.252m4.069s + 11 17 1. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 34.108m4.925s + 21 18 1. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 34.275m5.092s + 7 19 1. Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 34.312m5.129s + 17 20 1 34.485. Jean -Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 5.302m29s + 21 1 34.604. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 5.421m31s + 22 1 34.770. Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 5.587m13s + 23 1 42.627. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 13.444m16 s + 24 1 XNUMX. Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth XNUMX