Canadian GP: Both Williams drivers in top ten in FP2

After the opening Friday practice session which would see Williams Martini drivers Valtteri Bottas finish fifth and team-mate Felipe Massa seventeenth. It was a difficult session for Felipe having suffered an engine related issue which only saw him complete a handful of laps. But the team would have his car repaired for the start of the second Friday session which despite a hint of rain would be run under dry
conditions. With the start of the session both Williams drivers would take to the track early with Valtteri setting a quickest time, 1m:18.249, with Felipe in second. But Felipe would jump up to first with a 1m:18.032 but it was very early in the session. Valtteri would drop the order but would put in a quicker lap time moving back up to be quickest with a 1m:17.879. Felipe was second 0.153 behind his team-mate.

But Magnussen would go fastest but Valtteri would return to the top with a 1m:17.597. Hamilton would move into second and shortly after Rosberg would go fastest with a 1m:16.892 having been second. So we had two Mercedes followed by two Williams after fifteen minutes of the session. Rosberg would lower his quickest
time with a 1m:16.777. Alonso would move into third with Hamilton taking the top spot shortly after with a 1m:16.692. So with just under a half hour completed Valtteri and Felipe were fifth and sixth. The soft tyre was been used with no one coming out on the supersoft tyre. But shortly after the red marked tyres would start to be see with Grosjean first out. Both Mercedes cars would come out seeing Hamilton ultimately going quickest with a 1m:16.188. Valtteri was now up to third but Felipe would take this spot by 0.011 seconds.

Alonso was able to move ahead of Felipe but was half a second off the Mercedes pair. With an hour of the session completed Felipe and Valtteri were still in the top ten, fifth and sixth, while at the front it was Hamilton from Rosberg, Raikkonen and Alonso. Behind the Williams drivers were the McLaren's with Magnussen seventh and Button eighth. Vettel was able to improve to be sixth and on the next lap third. With Vettel moving up the order the Williams drivers would drop to sixth and seventh but encouragingly they both were well within one second of the leader. After the end of the session Valtteri would comment on the possibility of a win in Sunday's race by saying "You always try. But I think Mercedes are too quick. You never know what might happen in the race, but I don't think we have the pace to achieve it. We know after Mercedes there are a few teams that are really close and we are in that group. It's going to be a close fight."

For the Williams team both drivers would complete longer runs late in the session prior to practicing pit stops at the end. Valtteri and Felipe had shared the work with Valtteri running on the super soft tyre while Felipe was out on the soft in order to gain that extra data from the session. For both drivers the day would end on a positive note with both being well inside the top ten.

Pos Driver         	Team		      Time      Laps
 1.  Lewis Hamilton     Mercedes              1m16.118s 42
 2.  Nico Rosberg       Mercedes              1m16.293s 39
 3.  Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull-Renault      1m16.573s 26
 4.  Kimi Raikkonen     Ferrari               1m16.648s 31
 5.  Fernando Alonso    Ferrari               1m16.701s 27
 6.  Felipe Massa       Williams-Mercedes     1m16.774s 37
 7.  Valtteri Bottas    Williams-Mercedes     1m16.893s 37
 8.  Kevin Magnussen    McLaren-Mercedes      1m17.052s 42
 9.  Jenson Button      McLaren-Mercedes      1m17.059s 38
10.  Jean-Eric Vergne   Toro Rosso-Renault    1m17.180s 40
11.  Romain Grosjean    Lotus-Renault         1m17.626s 28
12.  Daniel Ricciardo   Red Bull-Renault      1m17.644s 36
13.  Nico Hulkenberg    Force India-Mercedes  1m17.712s 35
14.  Sergio Perez       Force India-Mercedes  1m17.819s 33
15.  Pastor Maldonado   Lotus-Renault         1m17.868s 27
16.  Adrian Sutil       Sauber-Ferrari        1m17.964s 47
17.  Esteban Gutierrez  Sauber-Ferrari        1m18.340s 43
18.  Max Chilton        Marussia-Ferrari      1m18.693s 34
19.  Daniil Kvyat       Toro Rosso-Renault    1m18.732s 9
20.  Kamui Kobayashi    Caterham-Renault      1m20.244s 38
21.  Marcus Ericsson    Caterham-Renault      1m22.418s 13
22.  Jules Bianchi      Marussia-Ferrari      1m32.127s 3