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Lotus Racing Melbourne Grand Prix Friday Practice 2

The second practice session on Friday afternoon in Melbourne began under cloudy skies with light rain falling, curtailing track time for Lotus Racing throughout the afternoon session. Despite this the team ran a solid session and finished ahead of both other new teams having completed a total of 32 laps in second practice, with Jarno Trulli finishing the session 20th (17 laps / 30 laps total) with a best time of 1.30.695 and Heikki Kovalainen 18th on 1.29.860 (15 laps / 41 laps total).

 

Jarno Trulli (Lotus-Cosworth T127-03): "It's been a bit of a difficult day because we lost a bit of time this morning, and unfortunately this afternoon the track was pretty wet so we couldn't really find a good set up. When I went out I had a few issues with understeer but, though it'll be a little difficult tomorrow, we'll see what we can learn in final practice before qualifying starts."

 

 

Heikki Kovalainen (Lotus-Cosworth T127-01): "The second session was much better for me, because the car functioned very well and we had the differential working 100%. The car felt really really good and we were very pleased with the way it was behaving. Obviously the rain disrupted things a little bit, but everyone was in the same boat. So, we're well prepared, and we're just going to try to maintain the reliability that we've achieved so far. Overall we're in really good shape."

 

 

 

Mike Gascoyne, Lotus Racing Chief Technical Officer: "Obviously the second session was affected by rain, which made it difficult, but we were able to run both types of tyre and get a feeling for how they both behave. Overall not a bad day – we got through most of our program, despite the conditions in the second session, so I'm pretty pleased.

 

 

 

 

Pos Driver Team Time Laps

1. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.801 13

2. Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:26.076 + 0.275 16

3. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:26.248 + 0.447 22

4. Schumacher Mercedes 1:26.511 + 0.710 16

5. Petrov Renault 1:26.732 + 0.931 26

6. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:26.832 + 1.031 29

7. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:26.834 + 1.033 22

8. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:26.835 + 1.034 17

9. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:26.904 + 1.103 25

10. Rosberg Mercedes 1:26.956 + 1.155 22

11. Kubica Renault 1:27.108 + 1.307 28

12. de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:27.108 + 1.307 25

13. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:27.455 + 1.654 23

14. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:27.545 + 1.744 25

15. Alonso Ferrari 1:29.025 + 3.224 20

16. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:29.134 + 3.333 19

17. Massa Ferrari 1:29.591 + 3.790 21

18. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:29.860 + 4.059 15

19. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:30.510 + 4.709 43

20. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:30.695 + 4.894 17

21. Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:32.117 + 6.316 9

22. di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 2

23. Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1

24. Senna HRT-Cosworth

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