By Läel Damasceno
March 27 2009

In Friday Practice two, McLaren were the slowest Mercedes powered team with the new BGP team leading the pack of the German engine manufacture.

The end result would see Heikki and Lewis finishing together at the back of the pack in 17^th and 18^th places respectfully.

Lewis lost out on a quick lap at the end of the session following a slippery moment. The car has shown that it is capable of putting up a challenge, perhaps today's times are not a true indication of the mess to come tomorrow in qualifying.

Here are the results for FP2

Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired Gap Laps

1 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:26.053 36

2 23 Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:26.157 0.104 38

3 9 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:26.350 0.297 42

4 14 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:26.370 0.317 30

5 22 Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:26.374 0.321 38

6 10 Timo Glock Toyota 1:26.443 0.390 42

7 17 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:26.560 0.507 33

8 15 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 1:26.740 0.687 19

9 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:27.040 0.987 29

10 3 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:27.064 1.011 35

11 4 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:27.204 1.151 32

12 7 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:27.232 1.179 28

13 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:27.282 1.229 32

14 6 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:27.317 1.264 34

15 5 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:27.398 1.345 36

16 11 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:27.479 1.426 36

17 2 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:27.802 1.749 35

18 1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:27.813 1.760 31

19 8 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:27.828 1.775 35

20 12 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:28.076 2.023 33

Melbourne, Second Friday Practice.

Discussion started by McLaren Fans (IP Logged), 27/03/2009 07:32

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27/03/2009 07:32

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TommySK
27/03/2009 17:04

Hi guys,

back after 1 year to show support to our team!
As to the practise results... I've been watching the 2nd practise live and I don't have a goog feeling about it
I hope for some points, but I think even that is not very realistic. Never mind, I'm not a bandwagon fan! Go McLaren!

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Insane
27/03/2009 18:14

FP1 was positive, FP2 not so much. I'm not too worried though, we all knew the early races would be a bit of an ordeal, but fingers crossed the two cars can make it into the point for the flyaways. Barcelona is where the car will hopefully take a big forward step.

With regards to practice - FP2 was pretty much all about longer runs, heavy fuel, checking out the tyres. Note that in FP1, when everyone was doing setup work, Heikki was quite high up. Lewis was only low down because he was struggling with setup, and this was sorted out by FP2. Times weren't chased in that session, hence the final positions.

I'm predicting Lewis and Heikki to qualify around 12th, fuel heavy, win some points.

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Sam C
27/03/2009 20:51

Humm, I'd expect the Qualifying speeds to be achieved in FP3. We didn't seem bad in FP1. Willaims or Brawn will win

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WILLIAMS-F1-Fan
27/03/2009 22:48

you guys must remember that Lewis and Heikki are runing with different brakes...

Lewis has carbon industries
and Heikki has hitco brakes


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De_JOKKE
28/03/2009 04:12

3th free pract not that bad concerning the lack of pace. Let's hope the vettel/kimi troubles will be repeated in the race and we'll end up in the points

Go macca boys!!!

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TommySK
28/03/2009 05:36

Let's consider the next 4 races as an "extended in-season test period". Chance of scoring points is very slim, so hopefully they will at least collect as much data as possible to give the guys in Paragon a chance to rectify the problem.
The only really positive info so far is for me the (until now) 100% reliability and no KERS problems...

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