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This morning we saw Mercedes picking up where they let off in FP1 and setting the pace in FP2 at the Russian Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton fastest ahead of Kevin Magnussen and Fernando Alonso.
During the session, we saw the track improving in grip and in the second half of the session, we saw drivers such as Nico Hulkenberg, Nico Rosberg, Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen improving by over 1.5 seconds and beyond. It would seem even at this early stage that McLaren are the surprise of the first two sessions with strong followings from Kevin Magnussen and Jenson Button.
Alongside this, few drivers such as Jean-Eric Vergne, Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel and Nico Rosberg going off at Turn 14 while trying to explore the limits of the track.
During the latter stages of the session, Daniel Ricciardo stopped out on track with suspected engine problems which brought out the Red Flag for a few minutes while his RB10 was recovered. But the session was restarted after his RB10 was recovered.
But Lewis Hamilton was fastest with a lap time of 1.39.630 ahead of Kevin Magnussen who finished in second place 0.864 seconds ahead of Fernando Alonso in third place a tenth shy of Magnussen. Nico Rosberg finished the session in fourth place ahead of Valtteri Bottas in fifth place and Jenson Button in sixth place.
Felipe Massa who improved from FP1 ended the session in seventh place ahead of Daniil Kvyat in eighth place, Sebastian Vettel in ninth place and Jean-Eric Vergne who rounds off the top ten finishers of the session.
Kimi Raikkonen ended the session in eleventh place ahead of Nico Hulkenberg in twelfth place, Daniel Ricciardo in thirteenth place despite stopping on track and Sergio Perez in fourteenth place. Adrian Sutil finished the session in fifteenth place and finished ahead of the Lotus drivers of Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado who finished in sixteenth and seventeenth places.
As we head into the latter stages of the grid, Esteban Guiterrez ended the session in eighteenth place ahead of Marcus Ericsson in nineteenth place ahead of Max Chilton in twentieth place and Kamui Kobayashi in twenty-first place.
The classification of FP2 at the Russian Grand Prix is as follows below:-
| Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1.39.630 |
| Kevin Magnussen | McLaren-Mercedes | 0.864s |
| Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 0.874s |
| Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 0.912s |
| Valtteri Bottas | Williams-Mercedes | 0.943s |
| Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 1.088s |
| Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 1.101s |
| Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso | 1.478s |
| Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull-Renault | 1.766s |
| Jean-Eric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1.901s |
| Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 2.000s |
| Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 2.047s |
| Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull-Renault | 2.431s |
| Sergio Perez | Force India-Mercedes | 2.460s |
| Adrian Sutil | Sauber-Ferrari | 2.603s |
| Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 3.262s |
| Pastor Maldonado | Lotus-Renault | 3.275s |
| Esteban Guiterrez | Sauber-Ferrari | 3.425s |
| Marcus Ericsson | Caterham-Renault | 4.505s |
| Max Chilton | Marussia-Ferrari | 4.900s |
| Kamui Kobayashi | Caterham-Renault | 5.322s |
