British GP: Williams back on track in FP2

With the mechanics still hard at work to complete the repairs of Felipe Massa's car the Williams Martini team would start the second Friday practice session for the 2014 British Grand Prix by sending out Valtteri Bottas. Valtteri's car had stopped in the first session with Suzie Wolff at the wheel. This car had suffered from an engine related issue but the team had been able to fix this. Valtteri would be the first driver to set a time in the session with a 1m:39.032. But Valtteri's time would be quickly passed with Valtteri dropping to fifth. Button was fastest, 1m:37.608, from Kvyat and Vergne. It was at this time the Williams team would say that all the corners of Felipe's car were repaired and that they expected to see him out soon.

Button would lower the quickest time with a 1m:37.414 but Valtteri would also improve moving to the top of the times with a 1m:37.363. With nearly twenty minutes of the session complete it would be Rosberg fastest with a 1m:35.645 with Alonso second. But Hamilton would again make it a Merced one-two by setting a new quickest time with a 1m:35.424. Ricciardo would move up to fourth while Vettel was seventh, but he would improve to be fifth. Valtteri had dropped to seventh while Felipe was still in his pit. But with just under thirty minutes of the session Felipe was back out on the track. We also had the first of the drivers out on the medium tyre, Ericsson and Gutierrez. Felipe was now in seventh to be ahead of Valtteri being down in ninth.

Felipe would improve to be sixth as other drivers took to the medium tyre including Alonso, Magnussen and both Force India cars. Rosberg would also come out on the softer tyre setting a 1m:34.736 to be fastest by seven tenths. But Hamilton would pass his team-mate with a 1m:34.508. Alonso was down in fourth but on the medium tyre would move up to third. With forty minutes left in the session the order was Hamilton, Rosberg, Alonso, Ricciardo, Vettel, and Valtteri sixth. Felipe was now down in eleventh while at the front we would have the sight of Hamilton stopping out on the track with and engine issue. Hamilton would lose some valuable time out on the track. Valtteri would be forced to pit with parts missing from his engine cover having lost it while going down the Hangar straight.

The session would come to an end with Valtteri sixth and Felipe eleventh. A great effort from the Williams team to get both cars out on the track collecting valuable data in the lead-up to Saturday. The top ten would be Hamilton, Rosberg, Alonso, Ricciardo, Vettel, Valtteri, Button, Magnussen, Raikkonen and Vergne.

Pos Driver         	 Team		        Time     Laps
 1. Lewis Hamilton       Mercedes               1m34.508s  14
 2. Nico Rosberg         Mercedes               1m34.736s  35
 3. Fernando Alonso      Ferrari                1m35.244s  32
 4. Daniel Ricciardo     Red Bull-Renault       1m35.511s  11
 5. Sebastian Vettel     Red Bull-Renault       1m35.627s  27
 6. Valtteri Bottas      Williams-Mercedes      1m36.016s  33
 7. Jenson Button        McLaren-Mercedes       1m36.228s  34
 8. Kevin Magnussen      McLaren-Mercedes       1m36.299s  35
 9. Kimi Raikkonen       Ferrari                1m36.554s  29
10. Jean-Eric Vergne     Toro Rosso-Renault     1m36.583s  26
11. Felipe Massa         Williams-Mercedes      1m36.671s  29
12. Daniil Kvyat         Toro Rosso-Renault     1m36.778s  31
13. Esteban Gutierrez    Sauber-Ferrari         1m36.951s  35
14. Pastor Maldonado     Lotus-Renault          1m37.064s  35
15. Romain Grosjean      Lotus-Renault          1m37.097s  33
16. Sergio Perez         Force India-Mercedes   1m37.236s  37
17. Nico Hulkenberg      Force India-Mercedes   1m37.449s  27
18. Adrian Sutil         Sauber-Ferrari         1m37.520s  25
19. Jules Bianchi        Marussia-Ferrari       1m38.658s  11
20. Kamui Kobayashi      Caterham-Renault       1m39.068s  31
21. Max Chilton          Marussia-Ferrari       1m39.224s  28
22. Marcus Ericsson      Caterham-Renault       1m39.762s  21