Maldonado quickest in German FP2

20th July 2012

Williams driver Pastor Maldonado.Pastor Maldonado topped the timesheets in the second free practice session at Hockenheim, largely by virtue of taking to the track at the right time in a session disrupted by rain. 
 

Maldonados lap of 1:27.476 was scored on intermediate tyres in the second half of the session as early rain gave way to an emerging dry line. As the times tumbled, the Venezuelan recorded his lap just a few minutes before another rain shower hit the circuit.
 
At the end of the session, Nico Rosberg was second, just eight hundredths of a second behind the Williams man. Sebastian Vettel was third, four tenths further back.
 
Heavy rain at the start of proceedings meant there was little activity initially, and more than 20 minutes elapsed before Jean-Eric Vergne, Nico Rosberg and Charles Pic tip-toed onto the circuit to test the conditions.
 
As the rain held off, Rosberg was the first to move to intermediates and as his lap times improved, everybody followed suit, with Maldonado eventually setting his session-topping time.
 
When the rains came again, there were inevitably mishaps. Daniel Ricciardo spun his Toro Rosso into the gravel at Turn 13, the corner where Valtteri Bottas had crashed his Williams in the morning session. Ricciardo was lucky to get away with no major damage to his car, but moments later Michael Schumacher was not as fortunate.
 
The Mercedes drive lost control on the exit of Turn 12. His car was pitched into the barriers, with both ends of the car sustaining damage.

1.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Renault      1m27.476             14 laps
2.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes              1m27.564s  + 0.088   24
3.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault      1m27.902s  + 0.426   24
4.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari        1m28.402s  + 0.926   26
5.  Romain Grosjean       Lotus-Renault         1m28.420s  + 0.944   20
6.  Nico Hulkenberg       Force India-Mercedes  1m28.495s  + 1.019   22
7.  Daniel Ricciardo      Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m28.513s  + 1.037   23
8.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes      1m28.516s  + 1.040   16
9.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault      1m28.877s  + 1.401   21
10  Kimi Raikkonen        Lotus-Renault         1m29.327s  + 1.851   22
11  Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m29.364s  + 1.888   26
12  Felipe Massa          Ferrari               1m29.719s  + 2.243   15
13  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari        1m29.785s  + 2.309   24
14  Charles Pic           Marussia-Cosworth     1m30.090s  + 2.614   19
15  Timo Glock            Marussia-Cosworth     1m30.220s  + 2.744   16
1.  Bruno Senna           Williams-Renault      1m30.291s  + 2.815   22
17  Heikki Kovalainen     Caterham-Renault      1m30.331s  + 2.855   26
18  Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercedes  1m30.437s  + 2.961   14
19  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes      1m30.617s  + 3.141   16
20  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari               1m31.207s  + 3.731   20
21  Vitaly Petrov         Caterham-Renault      1m32.241s  + 4.765   22
22  Narain Karthikeyan    HRT-Cosworth          1m32.349s  + 4.873   17
23  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes              1m32.777s  + 5.301   18
24  Pedro de la Rosa      HRT-Cosworth          1m42.566s  + 15.090   8

 

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