McLaren fastest again in second practice as Red Bull hit reliability trouble

May 28, 2010 at 1:38 pm by Keith Collantine

Last year's winner Jenson Button was fastest in second practice

McLaren were fastest again in the second practice session for the Turkish Grand Prix.

Close behind Button were the two Red Bulls. But both suffered reliability problems on their cars, with Mark Webber coming to a stop at the end of the session.

Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Istanbul, 2010

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His car rolled to a halt as he accelerated away from the second corner, coming to a stop with a wisp of smoke from the airbox.

Sebastian Vettel had a water pipe change before the start of the session. But towards the end of second practice he drove slowly into the pit with a loss of water pressure in his RB6.

When they were on the track the RB6s looked very quick. They were visibly faster through turn eight and showed a clear advantage on the stopwatch as well.

All the teams had to cope with track temperatures in excess of 50C from the beginning of the session.

Several drivers struggled with turn eight during the session: Felipe Massa, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Kamui Kobayashi all had more than one off-track excursion at the corner.

Vitaly Petrov also ran wide there in the Renault and Karun Chandhok had a spin in the HRT at the end of the session.

Massa’s high-speed spin ruined a set of soft tyres, disadvantaging him for the rest of the session.

He ended the session in tenth place with team mate Fernando Alonso fifth. Between them were the two Mercedes and two Renaults.

Pos.	Car	Driver	Car	Best lap		Laps
1	1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1’28.280		30
2	6	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1’28.378	0.098	24
3	5	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1’28.590	0.31	27
4	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1’28.672	0.392	32
5	8	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1’28.725	0.445	30
6	4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1’28.914	0.634	22
7	3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1’28.974	0.694	22
8	11	Robert Kubica	Renault	1’29.225	0.945	34
9	12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1’29.501	1.221	36
10	7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1’29.620	1.34	26
11	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1’29.629	1.349	16
12	10	Nico Hülkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1’29.987	1.707	17
13	23	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1’30.053	1.773	34
14	22	Pedro de la Rosa	Sauber-Ferrari	1’30.176	1.896	34
15	16	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’30.386	2.106	32
16	15	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1’30.627	2.347	28
17	9	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1’30.766	2.486	32
18	17	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’30.933	2.653	37
19	19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1’31.610	3.33	37
20	25	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1’33.013	4.733	28
21	18	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1’33.081	4.801	11
22	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1’33.312	5.032	29
23	21	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1’33.420	5.14	35
24	20	Karun Chandhok	HRT-Cosworth	1’33.740	5.46	25

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51 comments on McLaren fastest again in second practice as Red Bull hit reliability trouble

Adam Smith said on 28th May 2010, 16:18

“showed a clear advantage on the stopwatch as well”

I disagree Keith, look at the times?!

- Ade said on 28th May 2010, 16:36
  
  Check thee fastest sector times, in S2 where the T8 is, the 2 red bulls are 4 tenth quicker than any other team there, that’s 4 tenth of a light year in F1.
  
Glenn said on 28th May 2010, 19:36

Red Bull are once again toying with everyone. I suspect during FP# they will be deep into the 01:27′s cropping Half a second in S1, and S3.

Did anyone else catch during FP1 they showed the on-board lap of Vettel driving through turn 8 and he took his hand of the sterring wheel to activiate the F-Duct?
They might have been running with the limiter on but still carrying a good bit of speed and Stalling the Rear wing during arguably on the most downforce dependent corners of the year.

If I saw it correctly these guys must be making soo much downforce from the Diffuser they can afford to the stall the wing. Toying.

Electrolite said on 28th May 2010, 20:53

I know we don’t know the fuel loads and tires etc, but well done to Vitaly for getting ahead of Massa in a Ferrari. Showed promise in the other practice too.