Felipe Massa leads second practice in India

2011 Indian GP second practice

October 28, 2011 at 11:05 am by Keith Collantine

Felipe Massa, Ferrari, Buddh International Circuit, 2011

Felipe Massa put Ferrari on top in the second practice session for the Indian Grand Prix.

Massa took over at the top of the times from Sebastian Vettel, who led the way through most of the second fastest session.

The second Ferrari of Fernando Alonso was third, ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber.

The session was interrupted halfway through when Jerome d’Ambrosio had a sizeable crash at turn 12.

The Virgin driver lost control of his car at the exit of turn 11 and spun into the barrier at the outside of the next corner. The right-rear of the car was heavily damaged, but D’Ambrosio was unharmed.

The session resumed after a brief interruption but the slippery track continued to catch drivers out. Turns six and seven were a particularly source of difficulty. Vitaly Petrov spun off on the way into the corner and several other drivers cut across the run-off at the second part of the turn.

Pastor Maldonado lost a lot of time when he spun into a gravel trap.

The pit lane exit caused problems for several drivers. Vettel and Adrian Sutil were among the drivers who had near-misses during the session.

Both Mercedes drivers had a quiet session, Nico Rosberg ending up 19th, Michael Schumacher 21st.

Pos.	Car	Driver	Car	Best lap	Gap
1	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1’25.706		33
2	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1’25.794	0.088	34
3	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1’25.930	0.224	34
4	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1’26.454	0.748	26
5	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1’26.500	0.794	30
6	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1’26.714	1.008	28
7	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1’27.316	1.610	34
8	9	Bruno Senna	Renault	1’27.498	1.792	36
9	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1’27.853	2.147	35
10	18	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’27.868	2.162	35
11	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1’27.890	2.184	37
12	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1’28.050	2.344	34
13	17	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1’28.289	2.583	36
14	19	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1’28.552	2.846	31
15	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1’28.691	2.985	29
16	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1’28.708	3.002	24
17	21	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1’29.332	3.626	39
18	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1’30.241	4.535	41
19	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1’31.098	5.392	38
20	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1’31.469	5.763	32
21	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1’31.804	6.098	28
22	25	Jerome D’Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1’32.593	6.887	12
23	23	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT-Cosworth	1’32.768	7.062	33
24	22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1’32.824	7.118	33

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56 comments on Felipe Massa leads second practice in India

wasiF1 (@wasif1) said on 28th October 2011, 15:59

They should put some hot chilli into the photographer eyes that crossed the fence at turn 10.

Good job by Massa, so far I think we will have a good quali session tomorrow.

TED BELL said on 28th October 2011, 19:30

Massa was using the new Ferrari DSS system. Activated by the drivers foot when less than 100 pounds of pressure is applied to the throttle. This “Driver Stimulation System” is directly linked from the throttle and the drivers seat via an old Ford coil…Massa has been warned that he is in the hotseat and they mean it literaly.