Interlagos FP2: Very close between Hamilton and Rosberg

Lewis Hamilton ended the second free practice session top of the timing screens and untouchable on the opening day of the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend, but his Mercedes teammate and title rival Nico Rosberg was not far off his pace.

Hamilton’s best lap of 1:12.271 was over a quarter second slower than his FP1 time and only three hundredths of a second up on Rosberg’s best effort. Earlier, in the morning session, Rosberg was a quarter of a second adrift of the world champion’s best lap time.

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Brazilian Grand Prix, Interlagos – Friday, Free Practice 2

POS	NO	DRIVER	CAR	TIME	GAP	LAPS
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	MERCEDES	1:12.271		41
2	6	Nico Rosberg	MERCEDES	1:12.301	+0.030s	40
3	77	Valtteri Bottas	WILLIAMS MERCEDES	1:12.761	+0.490s	47
4	19	Felipe Massa	WILLIAMS MERCEDES	1:12.789	+0.518s	43
5	3	Daniel Ricciardo	RED BULL RACING TAG HEUER	1:12.828	+0.557s	43
6	33	Max Verstappen	RED BULL RACING TAG HEUER	1:12.928	+0.657s	45
7	5	Sebastian Vettel	FERRARI	1:13.002	+0.731s	45
8	7	Kimi Räikkönen	FERRARI	1:13.047	+0.776s	24
9	27	Nico Hulkenberg	FORCE INDIA MERCEDES	1:13.299	+1.028s	42
10	22	Jenson Button	MCLAREN HONDA	1:13.440	+1.169s	19
11	14	Fernando Alonso	MCLAREN HONDA	1:13.572	+1.301s	18
12	26	Daniil Kvyat	TORO ROSSO FERRARI	1:13.689	+1.418s	46
13	55	Carlos Sainz	TORO ROSSO FERRARI	1:13.801	+1.530s	47
14	11	Sergio Perez	FORCE INDIA MERCEDES	1:13.918	+1.647s	38
15	8	Romain Grosjean	HAAS FERRARI	1:14.074	+1.803s	35
16	20	Kevin Magnussen	RENAULT	1:14.109	+1.838s	47
17	12	Felipe Nasr	SAUBER FERRARI	1:14.309	+2.038s	40
18	31	Esteban Ocon	MRT MERCEDES	1:14.317	+2.046s	46
19	30	Jolyon Palmer	RENAULT	1:14.436	+2.165s	43
20	21	Esteban Gutierrez	HAAS FERRARI	1:14.558	+2.287s	42
21	9	Marcus Ericsson	SAUBER FERRARI	1:14.695	+2.424s	21
22	94	Pascal Wehrlein	MRT MERCEDES	1:14.958	+2.687s	22

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