Nico Rosberg set the fastest lap on Friday Practice 2 in Bahrain, beating Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher who were 2nd and 3rd respectively.
As with in Friday practice 1, Karun Chandhok got no running in the HRT due to technical issues, and therefore does not feature in my graphs below. Neither does Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Buemi, who set no timed laps due to a problem with the STR5.
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Fastest lap | Laps |
| 1 | Rosberg | 01:55.409 | 23 |
| 2 | Hamilton | 01:55.854 | 22 |
| 3 | Schumacher | 01:55.903 | 23 |
| 4 | Button | 01:56.076 | 28 |
| 5 | Vettel | 01:56.459 | 18 |
| 6 | Hulkenberg | 01:56.501 | 26 |
| 7 | Massa | 01:56.555 | 30 |
| 8 | Petrov | 01:56.750 | 26 |
| 9 | Alonso | 01:57.140 | 25 |
| 10 | de la Rosa | 01:57.255 | 24 |
| 11 | Kobayashi | 01:57.352 | 27 |
| 12 | Sutil | 01:57.361 | 29 |
| 13 | Barrichello | 01:57.452 | 21 |
| 14 | Liuzzi | 01:57.833 | 29 |
| 15 | Kubica | 01:58.155 | 29 |
| 16 | Alguersuari | 01:59.799 | 31 |
| 17 | Webber | 02:00.444 | 12 |
| 18 | Kovalainen | 02:00.873 | 23 |
| 19 | Trulli | 02:00.990 | 14 |
| 20 | Glock | 02:02.037 | 3 |
| 21 | di Grassi | 02:02.188 | 21 |
| 22 | Senna | 02:06.968 | 17 |
Fastest laps compared with laps set
Driver consistency
N.B. Out & in laps are not included in the consistency chart. Timo Glock does not appear on this chart, as he only set one timed lap.
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Nice graphs!
But I respect Nico taking this opportunity.
Thanks for such hard work Jack. It really helps try to make sense of all the datat.
I looked at both practice ones together to compare too. It’s practice so it still isn’t an exact science if I was guessing I’d say Mclaren pole maybe but Ferrari win. It’s not surprising if Mclaren are quickest tomorrow with the rear wing and the straights at Bahrain.
Nico I don’t know what to think as he was king of practice last year but he could be rattling Schumi and if he’s as good as his fans say thengood for him. However, I still think if Schumi is still the same eventually he’ll win so maybe he should do a Massa and learn from him too and avoid war
Ham seems to be ahead of Button but with Ham and his tyres maybe that will change race day. I’m not sure with those two at the mo’.
Congrats to the new teams esp HRT for getting some running and I hope Karun gets a good day tomorrow. Some failures with the car is worrying a bit for safety but I’m sure it’s all fine on that front especially with Massa’s accident last year.