Wurz 6th in 2nd Friday Australian practice

The start of the second Friday practice session would see a rush of drivers coming out. It was cloudy but dry. This session would see Nico Rosberg replacing Kazuki Nakajima out on the track. The Japanese driver was sixth fastest in the opening Friday practice.

Nico was down in twelfth with a time of 1m:32.525. Alex was in ninth, 1m:32.001.
Liuzzi would have a spin in his Torro Rosso. Nico would have a moment at Turn twelve as he recovered his car. Alex would improve his time with a 1m:31.883. So would Nico with a 1m:32.075. But for both their positions remained unchanged. With ten minutes of the session run fastest was Massa followed by Hamilton and Heidfeld. Nico was now in tenth, 1m:31.855. His next lap would see him move ahead of Alex and into ninth, 1m:31.184. Alex's time was now a 1m:31.358. Only three drivers had yet to set a time, including both Red Bull drivers.

Nico would pit while Alex would improve with a 1m:31.170. Alex and Nico were in
eleventh and twelfth. But both drivers were over three seconds slower than the quickest time, 1m:28.111. Alex would pit with just over seventy minutes remaining. As the session progressed Alex and Nico would drop down the order. But Nico would come out and on his first lap would improve to tenth, 1m:30.340. Alex was down in eighteenth. Massa was till fastest from Kubica and Alonso. Nico was now 2.2 seconds off the quickest time.

With thirty minutes of the session left it would be stopped to recover Barrichello's Honda which had hit the barriers. With the session restarted the cars would return and in the closing moments Nico was able to put in a time that would see him in the top ten, 1m:28.055, moving into eighth. Alex was also able to sneak in a time that would see him in sixth with a 1m:27.031. Fastest in the session would be Massa followed by Raikkonen and Hamilton.

Pos  Driver        Team                      Time     Laps
 1.  Massa         Ferrari             (B)  1:27.353 32
 2.  Raikkonen     Ferrari              (B)  1:27.750 33
 3.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:27.829 29
 4.  Fisichella    Renault              (B)  1:27.941 33
 5.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber           (B)  1:27.970 27
 6.  Wurz          AT&T Williams-Toyota (B)  1:27.981 31
 7.  Alonso        McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:28.040 25
 8.  Rosberg       AT&T Williams-Toyota (B)  1:28.055 29
 9.  Kubica        BMW Sauber           (B)  1:28.281 26
10.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:28.495 23
11.  Davidson      Super Aguri-Honda    (B)  1:28.727 28
12.  Trulli        Toyota               (B)  1:28.921 33
13.  Sato          Super Aguri-Honda    (B)  1:29.009 23
14.  Button        Honda                (B)  1:29.066 30
15.  Barrichello   Honda                (B)  1:29.542 12
16.  R.Schumacher  Toyota               (B)  1:29.574 26
17.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:29.801 11
18.  Kovalainen    Renault              (B)  1:30.097 10
19.  Speed         Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:30.383 28
20.  Sutil         Spyker-Ferrari       (B)  1:31.108 35
21.  Albers        Spyker-Ferrari       (B)  1:31.175 32
22.  Liuzzi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:31.693 16