Russian GP 2014 – Practice 2 – Results

Lewis Hamilton placed himself at the top of the time sheets for the free practice two of the inaugural Russian GP.

Hamilton was 0.864s clear of Kevin Magnussen in second place after Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg messed up his flying lap by running wide at Turn 17. Rosberg missed his braking point and ran straight on but kept the car under control, ruining his chance to register a quick lap but causing no real damage to his chances this weekend. The mistakes are likely to thin out as the weekend goes on and track conditions improve, but the combination of kinked high-speed straights and big stops at Turns 2 and 13 looks set to be the biggest challenges this weekend.

McLaren continued its impressive form from the morning as Kevin Magnussen finished best of the rest. Magnussen and Jenson Button had both exchanged times at the top of the timesheets with the Mercedes drivers during the medium tyre runs earlier on in the session.

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso put in his usual low-fuel Friday run to end up third fastest ahead of Rosberg, while Kimi Raikkonen finished the session down in 11th. Valtteri Bottas was the highest placed Williams in fifth while Jenson Button managed to round off an encouraging day for McLaren in sixth.

Pos.	Drivers	Teams	Time	Laps
01.	44 – Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes AMG Petronas	1:39.630	27
02.	20 – Kevin Magnussen	McLaren F1	1:40.494	32
03.	14 – Fernando Alonso	Scuderia Ferrari	1:40.504	32
04.	06 – Nico Rosberg	Mercedes AMG Petronas	1:40.542	30
05.	77 – Valtteri Bottas	Williams Martini Racing	1:40.573	33
06.	22 – Jenson Button	McLaren F1	1:40.718	32
07.	19 – Felipe Massa	Williams Martini Racing	1:40.731	30
08.	26 – Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:41.108	32
09.	01 – Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1:41.396	30
10.	25 – Jean-Eric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:41.531	33
11.	07 – Kimi Raikkonen	Scuderia Ferrari	1:41.630	24
12.	27 – Nico Hulkenberg	Sahara Force India	1:41.677	27
13.	03 – Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	1:42.061	25
14.	11 – Sergio Perez	Sahara Force India	1:42.090	29
15.	99 – Adrian Sutil	Sauber F1 Team	1:42.233	31
16.	08 – Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	1:42.892	30
17.	13 – Pastor Maldonado	Lotus F1 Team	1:42.905	33
18.	21 – Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber F1 Team	1:43.055	33
19.	09 – Marcus Ericsson	Caterham F1 Team	1:44.135	22
20.	04 – Max Chilton	Marussia F1 Team	1:44.530	29
21.	10 – Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham F1 Team	1:44.952	27