Jerez: Day Two

Day two saw a few driver changes, such as Perez, Hamilton, Razia and Force India's James Rossiter got to run a few laps towards the end of the session.

Final Standings

1. Romain Grosjean (Lotus) 1m18.218s
2. Paul di Resta (Force India) 1m19.003s
3. Daniel Ricciardo (Toro Rosso) 1m19.134s
4. Mark Webber (Red Bull) 1m19.338s
5. Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber) 1m19.502s
6. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 1m19.519s
7. Sergio Perez (McLaren) 1m19.572s
8. Felipe Massa (Ferrari) 1m19.914s
9. Pastor Maldonado (Williams) 1m20.693s
10. James Rossiter (Force India) 1m21.273s
11. Giedo van der Garde (Caterham) 1m21.311s
12. Luiz Razia (Marussia) 1m23.537s

Romain Grosjean affirmed team boss Eric Boullier's prediction of competitive times when he set the fastest lap time of the session and the test so far. He was nearly 0.8s quicker than the next car down, which just happened to be another blinder of a session by Paul di Resta.

Day two was an extremely tight session with seven cars being split by under a second. Both van der Garde (typing his name out is going to be a bag of fun this season  and Razia went quicker than the teams previous times (Chilton ran day one) with the Caterham still ahead.

Without doubt the biggest disappointment of the day came from Lewis Hamilton (albeit not his fault). His maiden run for his brand new team ended in disaster when his brakes failed, rendering him a passenger as his car headed for the tyres. Luckily he was unharmed but the problem couldn't be mended in time to get him back out. Two major problems in two days is pushing it, even for testing. He remained fairly upbeat and he was posting fairly quick times before the failure. There was hope yet.