Brazilian GP - FP2 Report - Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time as competition gets hot

on 26 November 2011.

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Grande Prêmio do Brasil, Brazilian GP, São Paulo - Free Practice Session 2 Result

Competition just get hotter in Brazil as the track temperature rises to 47deg. In a good summer afternoon here at Sao Paulo, the top 8 drivers in Free Practice Session 2, are just half a second separated form each other. To be precise by only 0.480sec.

Mercedes showed a lot of improved in FP2 times as Michael is just 0.3 of a second slower to Hamilton's fastest time and finished ahead of Massa, Button and Rosberg.

Hamilton just managed to kick Vettel from the top but still the game is on for final countdown here in qualifying and race. Mark Webber followed his teammate to third with Fernando Alonso taking the lead in Ferrari this time with an engine change.

Sahara Force India again looking for a stronger finish to end this year on high note finished the session in 9th and 10th position.

It is very peculiar to note that, Force India Duos' are followed by Renault Duo, which in turn followed by Sauber, Toro Rosso, Williams, Lotus, Virgin and HRT Duos' in order.

Team Lotus have improved a lot as there is a significant improvement in their time. They are almost able to match the Williams times. Behind them there is a gap of almost 2sec with Virgin and HRT.

Felipe Massa, Bruno Senna and Rubens Barrichello are the local heros' at Sao Paulo.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 13.392sec		35
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	1min 13.559sec	0.167	41
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 13.587sec	0.195	41
4	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 13.598sec	0.206	35
5	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1min 13.723sec	0.331	38
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 13.750sec	0.358	39
7	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 13.787sec	0.395	36
8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1min 13.872sec	0.480	42
9	Adrain Sutil	Force India - Mercedes	1min 14.144sec	0.752	41
10	Paul Di Resta	Force India - Mercedes	1min 14.807sec	1.415	48
11	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 14.856sec	1.464	38
12	Bruno Senna	Renault	1min 14.931sec	1.539	37
13	Sergio Perez	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 14.970sec	1.578	32
14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 15.019sec	1.627	45
15	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	1min 15.264sec	1.872	44
16	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 15.388sec	1.996	41
17	Pastor Maldonado	Williams - Cosworth	1min 15.679sec	2.287	43
18	Rubens Barrichello	Williams - Cosworth	1min 15.903sec	2.511	40
19	Jarno Trulli	Lotus - Renault	1min 16.298sec	2.906	36
20	Heikki Kovalanien	Lotus - Renault	1min 16.338sec	2.946	48
21	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 18.031sec	4.639	39
22	Timo Glock	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 18.051sec	4.659	45
23	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT - Cosworth	1min 18.367sec	4.975	42
24	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	1min 18.476sec	5.084	42