Brazilian GP: Williams drivers in top ten in FP2

Team Summary:
With light rain falling prior to the start of the second Friday practice session the Williams drivers would take to the track early looking to possibly avoid any rain. After the first timed laps Rosberg would be quickest with a 1m:13.793 but Hamilton would go quicker with the order Hamilton, Rosberg, Vettel, Ricciardo, Kvyat, Valtteri, Raikkonen, and Felipe. After his soft tyre run Valtteri would go quickest while Felipe was tenth. But with other drivers on their soft tyre runs Hamilton would go quickest with a 1m:12.843 but Rosberg would improve with a 1m:12.385 to be quickest. Valtteri would drop to third. But Valtteri would drop to sixth after other runs.

With forty five minutes completed the order was Rosberg, Hamilton, Vettel, Raikkonen, Ricciardo, Valtteri, Hulkenberg, and Felipe eighth. Felipe would drop to ninth as both Williams drivers continued their runs. After a moment Valtteri would pit but would return running on the medium tyre with the Williams team splitting their drivers tyre testing. With the end of the session both Williams drivers had a run on the medium tyre with Valtteri sixth and Felipe tenth.

Felipe Massa:
On his first run Felipe would tell his engineer that he had "Big oversteer in the middle sector, corner 9, corner 10.", currently in seventh. Felipe would pit and would drop to eighth. As drivers set times on the option tyres Felipe had dropped to tenth while he continued to use the medium tyre. On his soft tyre run Felipe, 1m:13.870, would be eighth after having a moment where he would get a lot of kerb at Turn two forcing him to run wide. He would drop to ninth. Felipe would be second fastest in the speed trap with a speed of 335.1kph. Felipe would continue his run on the soft tyre with thirty minutes remaining. He would pit returning briefly for a run on the medium tyre.

Valtteri Bottas:
On his first run Valtteri would go quickest with a 1m:14.621 but he would drop to fifth then sixth prior to pitting. Valtteri would be the first to come out for Williams on the soft option tyre but the session would be red flagged. Valtteri would currently be fastest after his run on the soft compound with a 1m:13.603. While on a long run on the medium tyre Valtteri would go off the track at Turn nine but was able to continue. "Can you check the rear wing stability?" Valtteri would ask his engineer, when asked if everything was OK. Valtteri had lost the rear of his car when turning in. Valtteri would pit but would come back out for a short run on the medium tyre.

Pos  Driver         	Team		        Gap      Laps
1  Nico Rosberg		Mercedes		1m12.385s 42
2  Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes		1m12.843s 39
3  Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari			1m13.345s 41
4  Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari			1m13.500s 43
5  Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m13.585s 39
6  Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m13.603s 37
7  Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes		1m13.634s 45
8  Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m13.710s 43
9  Daniil Kvyat		Red Bull/Renault	1m13.848s 40
10 Felipe Massa		Williams/Mercedes	1m13.870s 42
11 Sergio Perez		Force India/Mercedes	1m14.056s 34
12 Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes		1m14.124s 42
13 Felipe Nasr		Sauber/Ferrari		1m14.134s 44
14 Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m14.226s 35
15 Carlos Sainz		Toro Rosso/Renault	1m14.326s 45
16 Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda		1m14.644s 37
17 Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari		1m14.772s 38
18 Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda		1m15.129s 10
19 Will Stevens		Marussia/Ferrari	1m16.501s 35
20 Alexander Rossi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m16.787s 35