Silverstone: Hamilton tops 2nd wet practice

Schumacher slogs through the England rain

Lewis Hamilton topped Friday's 2nd practice session at Silverstone ahead of Sunday's British GP. On a track soaking wet from the heavy rain that saw Ferrari's Fernando Alonso go aquaplaning off into the barriers in his Ferrari, Hamilton's lap of 1m56.345s was enough to top Kamui Kobayashi's Sauber and Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg both in Mercedes.

Bruno Senna also aquaplaned into the barriers on the way out of the Becketts complex. The heavily-damaged Williams caused a 10-minute red flag period. Senna stepped out unhurt.

Sergio Perez in the second Sauber rounded out the top-5. Four drivers did not even risk putting in a single lap the conditions were so bad.

Results

POS	DRIVER	NATIONALITY	ENTRANT	TIME
1.	Lewis Hamilton	Britain	McLaren-Mercedes	1:56.345
2.	Kamui Kobayashi	Japan	Sauber-Ferrari	1:56.474
3.	Michael Schumacher	Germany	Mercedes GP	1:56.545
4.	Nico Rosberg	Germany	Mercedes GP	1:56.567
5.	Sergio Perez	Mexico	Sauber-Ferrari	1:57.493
6.	Jenson Button	Britain	McLaren-Mercedes	1:57.948
7.	Heikki Kovalainen	Finland	Caterham-Renault	1:58.580
8.	Kimi Raikkonen	Finland	Lotus-Renault	1:58.897
9.	Nico Hulkenberg	Germany	Force India-Mercedes	1:58.943
10.	Fernando Alonso	Spain	Ferrari	1:59.015
11.	Paul di Resta	Britain	Force India-Mercedes	1:59.429
12.	Pastor Maldonado	Venezuela	Williams-Renault	1:59.472
13.	Sebastian Vettel	Germany	Red Bull-Renault	1:59.476
14.	Jean-Eric Vergne	France	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:59.854
15.	Felipe Massa	Brazil	Ferrari	2:00.565
16.	Timo Glock	Germany	Marussia-Cosworth	2:00.820
17.	Bruno Senna	Brazil	Williams-Renault	2:01.099
18.	Vitaly Petrov	Russia	Caterham-Renault	2:01.348
19.	Charles Pic	France	Marussia-Cosworth	2:03.719
20.	Narain Karthikeyan	India	HRT-Cosworth	2:04.774
21.	Romain Grosjean	France	Lotus-Renault	No Time
22.	Daniel Ricciardo	Australia	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	No Time
23.	Mark Webber	Australia	Red Bull-Renault	No Time
24.	Pedro de la Rosa	Spain	HRT-Cosworth	No Time