Hamilton fastest in Hungary practice 2

Lewis Hamilton continued Mclaren’s strong start to the Grand Prix weekend by setting the fastest time in the second free practice session.

Mclaren’s pace was underlined as Heikki Kovalainen, fastest the in the first practice session, set the second fastest time.

Hamilton said: “We’ve refined the improvements we had at the Nurburgring and they seem to be working, but we’ve still got a lot of work to do to beat the Red Bulls particularly. Nevertheless, it’s encouraging to be able to push the car – I’m happier with it than I’ve been all season.”

The McLaren driver is hoping to break into Q3 in qualifying following his strong result in practice.

“The front row would be beautiful but, to be honest, I’m just aiming to get into Q3. The car is much more competitive – we’ve come from 2.5s off but we’re still about four to five tenths off the leaders, so we’ve got to keep working to make that up before we can start thinking about winning.”

Nico Rosberg continued his strong run of form in third place.

Pos  Driver       Team                       Time              Laps 1.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:22.079            36 2.  Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:22.126  + 0.047   36 3.  Rosberg      Williams-Toyota       (B)  1:22.154  + 0.075   47 4.  Webber       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:22.369  + 0.290   29 5.  Nakajima     Williams-Toyota       (B)  1:22.426  + 0.347   40 6.  Vettel       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:22.550  + 0.471   30 7.  Barrichello  Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:22.641  + 0.562   38 8.  Trulli       Toyota                (B)  1:22.663  + 0.584   28 9.  Heidfeld     BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:22.690  + 0.611   4310.  Glock        Toyota                (B)  1:22.751  + 0.672   4511.  Raikkonen    Ferrari               (B)  1:22.763  + 0.684   3812.  Alonso       Renault               (B)  1:22.793  + 0.714   3713.  Button       Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:22.806  + 0.727   4214.  Kubica       BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:22.870  + 0.791   3615.  Piquet       Renault               (B)  1:22.927  + 0.848   3616.  Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:22.978  + 0.899   2817.  Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:23.029  + 0.950   3918.  Massa        Ferrari               (B)  1:23.156  + 1.077   3219.  Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:23.176  + 1.097   4520.  Alguersuari  Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:23.942  + 1.863   40

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