Valencia: Alonso gives Spaniard's something to cheer about

Fernando Alonso

Fernando Alonso delighted his home fans by posting the fastest time in second Friday practice for the European Grand Prix in Valencia.

The Spaniard turned his fastest lap on soft Pirelli tires with a time of 1m37.968s, the Ferrari driver out pacing McLaren's Lewis Hamilton by just two tenths of a second.

World champion and championship leader Sebastian Vettel was third ahead of the Mercedes of Michael Schumacher and the second Ferrari of Felipe Massa.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Behind	Laps
1.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m37.968s	+0.000s	35
2.	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1m38.195s	+0.227	26
3.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m38.265s	+0.297	31
4.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m38.315s	+0.347	30
5.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m38.443s	+0.475	32
6.	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m38.483s	+0.515	30
7.	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m38.531s	+0.563	26
8.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m38.981s	+1.013	33
9.	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1m39.040s	+1.072	35
10.	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1m39.586s	+1.618	27
11.	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1m39.626s	+1.658	31
12.	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1m40.020s	+2.052	34
13.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1m40.301s	+2.333	34
14.	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1m40.363s	+2.395	7
15.	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m40.454s	+2.486	32
16.	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m40.531s	+2.563	37
17.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m42.083s	+4.115	34
18.	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1m42.156s	+4.188	39
19.	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1m42.239s	+4.271	25
20.	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1m42.273s	+4.305	21
21.	Jerome D'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1m42.809s	+4.841	36
22.	Tonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1m44.460s	+6.492	29
23.	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1m46.906s	+8.938	16