Canadian GP: Vettel fastest in second practice as tyre degrade

June 11 '10

Sebastian Vettel topped the time sheets for Red Bull at the second practice session for the Canadian Grand Prix.

Fernando Alonso set the second fastest time for Ferrari after managing only 7th in the morning session. His team mate Felipe Massa finished a strong fifth after setting 12th fastest time in the first practice session.

Mercedes showed superb pace as Nico Rosberg set the third fastest time, while Michael Schumacher was second in the morning session.

Some drivers improved their lap times on the super-soft tyres, but had trouble making the super-soft tyres last. Most of the drivers struggled with the super-soft tyres, which seemed to grain a lot faster. Comments on F1Fanatic suggest that the option tyres were graining too badly.

[f1fanatic_co_uk:]
Just under five minutes to go. Slow-mo shows lots of graining on Vettel's front-left tyre. #F1

[Comment From ADELAIDE F1ADELAIDE F1: ]
Excellent slow-mo on Webber's car shows massive graining... bits even flying off in chunks.

[Comment From PeterPeter: ]
look at ham he has massive graining and is about 10sec per lap slower for the last couple of laps...

[@adamcooperf1:]
Hamilton on team radio about his option tyre graining: "I'm about to crash this car!"

The tyres available for the weekend are medium (prime) and super-soft (option). Because of serious tyre graining, qualifying and race could be bit more interesting, with the top ten qualifiers having to start the race with the same set of tyres which they qualified on.

McLaren reserve driver Gary Paffet observed, ?With all the tyre graining issues people are having, we might see our first two-stop race of the season on Sunday.?

Once again Heikki Kovalainen in the Lotus was the fastest of the new team drivers in 19th and Hispania?s Karun Chandhok continued his impressive run to finish 20th, ahead of his team mate Bruno Senna and the Virgins of Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi. Jarno Trulli could only manage to complete 11 laps due to electrical problems on his Lotus.

Canadian Grand Prix free practice 2 times

1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m 16.877s
2. Fernando Alonso Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 16.963s
3. Nico Rosberg Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 17.151s
4. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m 17.273s
5. Felipe Massa Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 17.401s
6. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1m 17.415s
7. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m 17.522s
8. Robert Kubica Renault-Renault 1m 17.529s
9. Michael Schumacher Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 17.688s
10. Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1m 17.903s
11. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m 17.903s
12. Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1m 18.385s
13. Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1m 18.447s
14. Vitaly Petrov Renault-Renault 1m 18.582s
15. Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1m 18.658s
16. Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1m 19.142s
17. Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m 19.168s
18. Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m 19.274s
19. Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1m 19.969s
20. Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1m 20.879s
21. Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 1m 21.097s
22. Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1m 21.346s
23. Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1m 21.488s
24. Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1m 21.577s


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