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2012 Japanese Formula 1 Grand Prix

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Japanese Grand Prix - 2012 - 2nd Friday Practice

(05/10/2012)

13:58

NewsOnF1:

Welcome to our coverage of the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix

13:58

NewsOnF1:

Second Friday practice session is underway

13:58

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Second Friday practice session is underway

13:59

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It is sunny and warm with air temperature at 27 degrees while track temperature is at 38 degrees

13:59

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Minutes into the session and di Resta has gone off

14:00

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His car hits the tyre barriers

14:00

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His session is over

14:00

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Session is stopped

14:01

NewsOnF1:

Replay shows that he went slightly off track, lost control and slid into the barriers

14:02

NewsOnF1:

Session is stopped so his car is cleared

14:04

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So far it is Grosjean from Vettel and Perez

14:05

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The session will restart in 2 minutes

14:06

NewsOnF1:

Session restarts

14:10

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Alonso goes quickest with a 1:34.287

14:10

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Webber now in 3rd

14:10

NewsOnF1:

Hamilton takes second with a 1:34.398

14:12

NewsOnF1:

Vettel goes 3rd with a 1:34.481

14:13

NewsOnF1:

Alonso doesn't improve despite setting the fastest 1st and 3rd sectors

14:13

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Kimi has a KERS problem and they ask him to pit

14:14

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Hamilton improves in second with a 1:34.304

14:15

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Alonso and Vettel pit

14:16

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Perez on a quick lap

14:17

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Button goes quickest with a 1:34.150

14:17

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Webber goes second with a 1:34.188

14:19

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Grosjean on a quick lap

14:20

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Grosjean goes 3rd with a 1:24:259

14:25

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2nd Friday Practice - 30 minutes into the session
Button
Webber
Grosjean
Alonso
Hamilton
Vettel
Perez
Massa
Hulkenberg
Kobayashi

14:27

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Alonso and Vettel are back on the track

14:36

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Vettel quickest with a 1:33.961

14:36

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Apologies for the interruption

14:37

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Kobayashi goes second with a 1:33.983

14:37

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Button is on the soft compound and is on a quick lap

14:38

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A few more drivers are on the softs now

14:38

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Button goes quickest with a 1:33.349

14:39

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Now Grosjean goes quickest with a 1:33.107

14:39

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Massa goes 3rd. The top 3 are all on the softs

14:40

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2nd Friday Practice - Halfway into the session
Grosjean
Button
Massa
Vettel
Kobayashi
Perez
Webber
Alonso
Maldonado
Hamilton

14:41

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Robserg has yet to set a time. His car stopped towards the end of the first session

14:42

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Vettel is now on the softs

14:42

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And he goes quickest with a 1:32.836

14:44

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Kimi Raikkonen hasn't gone back out since his KERS issue

14:44

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Alonso on the softs now

14:45

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Alonso goes second with a 1:33.093

14:47

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Interesting that Schumacher has only done 5 laps so far

14:48

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Hamilton is now on the track on the softs

14:57

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Hamilton goes quickest with a 1:32.707

14:57

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Webber betters that with a 1:32.493

14:59

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Rosberg makes it onto the track

15:00

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2nd Friday Practice - 30 minutes remaining
Webber
Hamilton
Vettel
Hulkenberg
Alonso
Grosjean
Button
Senna
Massa
Schumacher

15:01

NewsOnF1:

Most drivers are now testing on long runs

15:06

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Raikkonen still in the pits

15:09

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2nd Friday Practice - 15 minutes remaining
Webber
Hamilton
Vettel
Hulkenberg
Alonso
Grosjean
Button
Senna
Massa
Schumacher

15:11

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Schumacher goes off

15:12

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Exactly a repeat of di Resta

15:12

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This time yellow flags only

15:15

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Yellow flags have been cleared

15:19

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Raikkonen is back on the track

15:22

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Raikkonen nearly runs into the back of Vettel

15:23

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Session over

15:24

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2nd Friday Practice
Webber
Hamilton
Vettel
Hulkenberg
Alonso
Grosjean
Button
Senna
Massa
Schumacher

15:25

NewsOnF1:

Petrov goes off

15:25

NewsOnF1:

He is stuck in the gravel

15:26

NewsOnF1:

Replay shows he lost the rear wing

15:28

NewsOnF1:

11th to 24th: Rosberg, Perez, Kobayashi, Raikkonen, Maldonado, Ricciardo, Vergne, Kovalainen, Petrov, Glock, Pic, de la Rosa, Karthikeyan and de la Rosa (no time)

15:30

NewsOnF1:

Most laps by Kovalainen with 41 laps. Least laps by di Resta with 2 laps then Raikkonen with 12 and Schumacher with 13

17:26

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17:27

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Saturday practice gets underway at 11:00 am local time (2:00 GMT)

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