Australian GP Friday 2nd Practice

The second Friday practice session for the 2013 Australian Grand Prix would commence with Raikkonen out first. Valtteri Bottas would be first out for the Williams F1 team followed by Pastor Maldonado. A 1m32.967 from Raikkonen with the track now very busy. Raikkonen sets a 1m:29.012 still running on the medium tyre. Valtteri's first lap was a 1m:37.777 as Hamilton went fastest with a 1m:27.882. Pastor would set a 1m:30.670 with the order changing rapidly with only Webber and the two Ferrari's yet to come out. Valtteri would improve with a 1m:30.306 to be tenth but he would quickly drop to twelfth. Vettel was now fastest with a 1m:26.604 on the medium tyre.

Pastor would move into the 1m:29s with a 1m:29.741 to be tenth while Valtteri had pitted. Pastor would follow him in to the pits. A 1m:26.274 from Vettel to increase his lead at the front. Rosberg was now second with Webber third. The track was now fairly quite but both Ferrari's were out. Webber was now second making it a Red Bull one-two. Hamilton was now second but 0.5 seconds off Vettel's time. With twenty minutes of the session completed Valtteri would come back out this time on the supersoft tyre. Pastor would also come out following Valtteri in using the super soft tyre. Valtteri would set a 1m:29.386 while Massa would move up to third. A 1m:28.852 from Pastor would see both drivers a second faster but still well down the times being set on the medium tyre by other teams. With an hour remaining Valtteri had pitted from his run on the softer tyre. Pastor would also pit with the pair fourteenth and seventeenth.

Valtteri was back out for his next run back running on the medium tyre. Pastor would also return to the track running again on the super soft tyre. Vettel was still fastest from Alonso and Hamilton. On the super soft tyre Webber would go fastest with a 1m:26.172. Vettel was now second with Raikkonen third. Vettel was also on the super soft tyre and would have to back off. Rosberg was now third on the super softs, 1m:26.322. Vettel would go fastest with a 1m:25.908. Pastor and Valtteri would now sixteenth and eighteenth. Both drivers were on longer runs with thirty minutes remaining in the session. Pastor would pit first followed by Valtteri. After a short break both Williams drivers would return to what was now a very busy track with twenty minutes remaining.

The Williams team would explain that their focus is on tyres in this session. For this run Valtteri was now on the super softs and Pastor the medium tyre. Vettel was still leading from Webber, Rosberg, Raikkonen, Grosjean, Alonso, Hamilton, Massa, Sutil, and Hulkenberg tenth. With under ten minutes remaining both Williams drivers continued their longer runs with Pastor having completed thirty three laps and Valtteri thirty five. With the end of the session both Pastor and Valtteri had added a few laps to their totals as they completed their programme for the Friday sessions. Pastor and Valtteri would finish in sixteenth and eighteenth but it was very early days for the Williams team.

Pos Driver         	  Team		        Time     Laps
 1.  Sebastian Vettel     Red Bull-Renault      1m25.908  33
 2.  Mark Webber          Red Bull-Renault      1m26.172s 31
 3.  Nico Rosberg         Mercedes              1m26.322s 26
 4.  Kimi Raikkonen       Lotus-Renault         1m26.361s 37
 5.  Romain Grosjean      Lotus Renault         1m26.680s 30
 6.  Fernando Alonso      Ferrari               1m26.748s 35
 7.  Lewis Hamilton       Mercedes              1m26.772s 28
 8.  Felipe Massa         Ferrari               1m26.855s 32
 9.  Adrian Sutil         Force India-Mercedes  1m27.435s 34
10.  Nico Hulkenberg      Sauber-Ferrari        1m28.187s 34
11.  Jenson Button        McLaren-Mercedes      1m28.294s 30
12.  Paul di Resta        Force India-Mercedes  1m28.311s 37
13.  Sergio Perez         McLaren-Mercedes      1m28.566s 32
14.  Daniel Ricciardo     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m28.627s 31
15.  Esteban Gutierrez    Sauber-Ferrari        1m28.772s 33
16.  Pastor Maldonado     Williams-Renault      1m28.852s 36
17.  Jean-Eric Vergne     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m28.968s 35
18.  Valtteri Bottas      Williams-Renault      1m29.386s 38
19.  Jules Bianchi        Marussia-Cosworth     1m29.696s 30
20.  Charles Pic          Caterham-Renault      1m30.165s 37
21.  Max Chilton          Marussia-Cosworth     1m30.600s 34
22.  Giedo van der Garde  Caterham-Renault      1m32.450s 11