Lewis Hamilton was still the driver to beat at the end of second practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
Although Hamilton had his advantage from first practice reduced, with team-mate Nico Rosberg ending up 0.021 secs behind the championship leader when drivers took to the soft compound tyres. While Sebastian Vettel was three-quarters of a second off the benchmark time.
The Mercedes duo traded fastest times in the first half of the session on the medium tyres before Hamilton edged out Rosberg when the two switched to the yellow-marked soft tyres.
The Force India pair Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg remained in the top five and sandwiched the two Ferraris respectively as Kimi Raikkonen finished in sixth.
Romain Grosjean was the leading Lotus from Pastor Maldonado despite taking a trip through the gravel at the Ascari chicane. Max Verstappen followed suit in more spectacular fashion, spinning into the gravel trap but crawled his Toro Rosso out of it unlike his sister car in the first session.
Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas completed the top ten and made it eight Mercedes-powered cars in the top ten.
Red Bull ran into trouble during the afternoon, Daniel Ricciardo was stuck in gear early in the session as he limped back to the pits while Daniil Kvyat encountered a gearbox problem.
