Button again fastest in 2nd Japanese GP session

Jenson Button

Jenson Button once again set the pace in the second free practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on Friday.

The McLaren man's best time of 1m31.901s was 0.174s quicker than Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber were third and fourth fastest,

Felipe Massa was half a second off the pace in fifth ahead of Michael Schumacher for Mercedes. The seven-time champion was the last man within a second of Button.

Nico Rosberg in the other Mercedes was seventh with Hamilton, Vitaly Petrov and Sebastien Buemi completing the top ten.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Behind	Laps
1.	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m31.901s	+0.000s	32
2.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m32.075s	+0.174	33
3.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m32.095s	+0.194	35
4.	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m32.147s	+0.246	28
5.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m32.448s	+0.547	34
6.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m32.710s	+0.809	26
7.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m32.982s	+1.081	27
8.	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1m33.245s	+1.344	26
9.	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1m33.446s	+1.545	36
10.	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m33.681s	+1.780	33
11.	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m33.705s	+1.804	25
12.	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1m33.790s	+1.889	36
13.	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m34.393s	+2.492	35
14.	Bruno Senna	Renault	1m34.557s	+2.656	27
15.	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1m34.601s	+2.700	33
16.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m36.038s	+4.137	33
17.	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1m36.225s	+4.324	35
18.	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1m37.123s	+5.222	14
19.	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1m37.440s	+5.539	30
20.	Jerome D'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1m38.093s	+6.192	30
21.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1m38.387s	+6.486	16
22.	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT-Cosworth	1m38.763s	+6.862	36
23.	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1m39.800s	+7.899	24
24.	Tonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1m42.480s	+10.579	4