Webber takes over at the top in second practice

2011 German Grand Prix second practice

July 22, 2011 at 2:32 pm by Keith Collantine

Mark Webber, Red Bull, Nurburgring, 2011

Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso were the top two drivers in the second practice session as they had been in the first – but this time Webber led the way.

Alonso was quickest earlier in the session, swapping best times with team mate Felipe Massa.

He used the race-specification soft tyres to set his best time but it was a somewhat messy run that included a few aborted efforts, one as he ran wide at the Dunlop hairpin.

Webber took to the track shortly afterwards and found a tenth of a second to better Alonso’s time, then a few hundredths more on his subsequent effort.

Vettel couldn’t quite match his team mate’s time and for the second session in a row Webber was the faster of the two.

Massa took fourth in front of the two Mercedes. Schumacher nearly had a run-in with Alonso who tried to pass him at the Dunlop hairpin. Alonso took to the grass, skidded sideways and narrowly missed the Mercedes.

Alonso had another encounter with Vitaly Petrov at the end of the session, oversteering close to the Renault as the went through turn three side-by-side.

Both McLarens were behind the Mercedes and Jenson Button ran into trouble after testing a new exhaust development, his session ending 15 minutes before the chequered flag.

Also in trouble was Daniel Ricciardo, whose HRT began belching smoke after five laps and coming to a halt.

Sebastien Buemi joined the track early in the session following his spin at the end of first practice, but wasn’t able to set a time due to an engine problem.

Pos.	Car	Driver	Car	Best lap	Gap	Laps
1	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1’31.711		34
2	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1’31.879	0.168	38
3	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1’32.084	0.373	28
4	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1’32.354	0.643	36
5	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1’32.411	0.700	31
6	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1’32.557	0.846	32
7	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1’32.724	1.013	28
8	9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1’33.098	1.387	17
9	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1’33.138	1.427	22
10	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1’33.211	1.500	34
11	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1’33.225	1.514	17
12	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1’33.299	1.588	34
13	17	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1’34.113	2.402	34
14	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1’34.344	2.633	34
15	19	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’34.487	2.776	37
16	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1’34.491	2.780	35
17	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1’34.996	3.285	35
18	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1’35.753	4.042	42
19	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1’36.940	5.229	32
20	21	Karun Chandhok	Lotus-Renault	1’37.248	5.537	33
21	25	Jerome D’Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1’37.313	5.602	33
22	23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1’38.145	6.434	31
23	22	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT-Cosworth	1’40.737	9.026	5
24	18	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	No time		3

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61 comments on Webber takes over at the top in second practice

wallou said on 22nd July 2011, 15:52

I’ve read that the 107% rule doesn’t exist anymore.

The FIA agreed this with HRT and Virgin in order to have them accpetto go back to Valencia’s blown diffuser rule.

Anyone can confirm that ? Keith maybe ?
i really doubt it.

- Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 22nd July 2011, 16:04
  
  Not seen anything to suggest that’s the case.
  
  - wallou said on 22nd July 2011, 16:07
    
    French sites i go to are saying that. But it surprised me a bit that no one talked about it before this week end.
    
    Thanks for the reply.
    
    - wallou said on 22nd July 2011, 16:24
      
      keith i post again despite your answer because the site i go to is a pretty serious one and i really have mixed feeling about this onfo.
      they have someone at the track this week end and it’s coming from him.
      
      in case you understand a bit french or if google translate is good enough for you i can give you the url (i don’t know if its allowed to post url in comments)
      
doncakes said on 22nd July 2011, 16:02

Good on Perez ahead of Kobayashi. I enjoy the battle between those two this season as Sauber have some great young driving talent in need of faster equipment.

Can’t say the same for Ricciardo. Yeeesh, some 2.5 seconds off Liuzzi in that pig of a car. He has some work to do.

Also enjoying the battle at Toro Rosso, seems Alguersuari is comming on strong as the season progresses.

As for Mclaren… oh boy, could be a long weekend.

- katederby (@katederby) said on 22nd July 2011, 20:14
  
  In fairness Ricciardo only had 5 laps in the car before it starting spewing oil compared to the much more experienced Liuzzi’s 31.
  
doncakes said on 22nd July 2011, 17:39

Any reason the posts are all out of order?

Alfie said on 23rd July 2011, 5:24

Keith, typo:

Second was Massa [...]

- Alfie said on 23rd July 2011, 5:25
  
  Or Massa took second, even.
  
  - Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 23rd July 2011, 8:25
    
    Changed it, thanks!