Bahrain GP: Rosberg tops practice 2

Nico Rosberg

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg turned the fastest lap the second practice session Friday for the Bahrain GP with a time of 1m32.816s, ahead of the Red Bulls of Mark Webber, and Sebastian Vettel with Lewis Hamilton 4th for McLaren.

Michael Schumacher was fifth in the other Mercedes but more than one second down on his teammate benchmark, with Jenson Button sixth in the 2nd McLaren.

Kobayashi ended the day in seventh spot for Sauber, ahead of the Ferrari of Fernando Alonso and the Lotus of Romain Grosjean. Sergio Perez rounded out the top 10 for Sauber.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Behind	Laps
1.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m32.816s	+0.000s	35
2.	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m33.262s	+0.446	26
3.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m33.525s	+0.709	28
4.	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1m33.747s	+0.931	26
5.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m33.862s	+1.046	31
6.	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m34.246s	+1.430	28
7.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m34.411s	+1.595	34
8.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m34.449s	+1.633	31
9.	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1m34.615s	+1.799	32
10.	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m34.893s	+2.077	34
11.	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m34.895s	+2.079	29
12.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m34.941s	+2.125	29
13.	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	1m35.183s	+2.367	33
14.	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m35.229s	+2.413	26
15.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1m35.459s	+2.643	38
16.	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1m35.913s	+3.097	32
17.	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1m35.968s	+3.152	35
18.	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1m36.169s	+3.353	30
19.	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1m36.587s	+3.771	32
20.	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1m37.803s	+4.987	33
21.	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1m37.812s	+4.996	28
22.	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1m39.649s	+6.833	27