Sebastien Vettel uncovered Red Bull´s horns in second practice to claim 1st spot with a 1:37.305 wich takes another second off his record from last year at COTA (1:39.347). Team mate Mark Webber ended just 1tenth of a second slower followed by the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton completing the only 4 cars to go below the 1:38 minute barrier.
Fifth place Heikki Kovalainen surprised again as he quickly adapted to the Lotus and posted a very respectable 1.38.073. The Lotus Team are pleased with his result so far and this only proves again how good and ready for a second chance in a top team Heikki is. The Saubers finished 6th and 7th with Gutierrez and Hulkenberg followed by the Lotus of Romain Grosjean. Button had posted the 2nd fastest time in P1 but only managed to finish 9th in the McLaren improving his first session time by only 1 tenth of a second. Alonso rounded up the top 10 without improving his time but most doing some long runs covering 33 laps in total.
Now it´s just wait and see, with one more practice programmed for tomorrow at 9am and then Qualifying at 1pm. Teams will be finetunning tonight in order to better the balance of the cars since passing at COTA is really difficult and a good qualifying position will definetely be key to success.
