Turkish GP: Hulkenberg improves in second practice

After a troubled first Friday practice the AT&T Williams team would be hoping for an improved second Friday practice session for the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix. Both Williams drivers were somewhat off the pace, struggling with the older front wing that they have been forced to run. For Nico Hulkenberg his second session would have a technical problem with a hydraulic leak on his FW32. The problem would be repaired but it would see not return to the track until well into the last half hour of the session. At the time he was in sixteenth.

Nico would improve his time with 1m:29.987 to move up to eleventh as his second run of the afternoon continues. He would finish the session in twelfth without improving on his time. As for team-mate Rubens Barrichello his session would see set an early time of 1m:31.517.

As was the case with most drivers in the later part of the session he would run on the softer tyre setting a time of 1m:30.766 to be fourteenth. By the end of the session he had dropped to a disappointing seventeenth, five places behind Nico and some eight tenths of a second behind Nico.

Despite the improvement from Nico the Williams team again seems to find getting pace from the FW32 a difficult exercise. But having said that Nico's time was a big step forward. Now it comes down to whether Rubens can also show signs of improvement come Saturday's practice.

Pos  Driver	    Team		     Time      Laps
 1.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes         1:28.280  30
 2.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault         1:28.378  24
 3.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault         1:28.590  26
 4.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes         1:28.672  32
 5.  Alonso         Ferrari                  1:28.725  30
 6.  Rosberg        Mercedes                 1:28.914  22
 7.  Schumacher     Mercedes                 1:28.974  22
 8.  Kubica         Renault                  1:29.225  34
 9.  Petrov         Renault                  1:29.501  36
10.  Massa          Ferrari                  1:29.620  26
11.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes     1:29.629  16
12.  Hulkenberg     AT&T Williams-Cosworth   1:29.987  17
13.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari           1:30.053  34
14.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari           1:30.176  34
15.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari       1:30.386  32
16.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes     1:30.627  28
17.  Barrichello    AT&T Williams-Cosworth   1:30.766  32
18.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari       1:30.933  37
19.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth           1:31.610  37
20.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth          1:33.013  28
21.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth           1:33.081  11
22.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth          1:33.312  29
23.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth             1:33.420  35
24.  Chandhok       HRT-Cosworth             1:33.740  25