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Just fifteen minutes until the second practice session gets under way in Valencia. What a treat on a Friday afternoon

Formula 1 | European Grand Prix
Valencia Street Circuit | 24.06.2011
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There goes Vettel to the top of this session and the quickest of the day, any of those suspicions about him having an issue this morning have been dispersed
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Lewis Hamilton hadn't had the best start to this session, but stayed out there and has just improved his position from 20th to 4th with a cracking run
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Vettel giving it a much more serious go this afternoon and it seems Red Bull have dropped the Silverstone specifications as he is up to third spot
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Massa's team mate Fernando Alonso has just ousted him and goes within 0.09 seconds of Webber's time this morning
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Massa regains the lead and becomes only the second man to go below 1:41 today, but is still not as quick as Webber was this morning
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Felipe Massa briefly lead the scoreboard, but has just been usurped by Nick Heidfeld in his Renault
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The dust that is around on the track made grip a bit of an issue in the morning session, so we will see if the same occurs this afternoon
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The weather still very warm, around 41 degrees reportedly, but it looks very cloudy, and the dust is still very prevalent as it was this morning
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There's a few men out on the track now, including this morning's second place finisher Vitali Petrov, although they won't be setting serious times for a couple of laps
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Seems like the Force India car is half an hour from recovery, so will get around an hour's run out
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First man out is Jerome d'Ambrosio in the Virgin car at the start of the second of the three practice sessions
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The Force India car which Nico Hulkenberg crashed out in the first session is being dilligently worked on, and could be ready to go this afternoon
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Webber's team mate and world champion Sebastian Vettel way back in 16th, but it seems his team were trying out specifications for Silverstone in the first session
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If anyone missed any of the first session, it was Red Bull's Mark Webber who was fastest, and comfortably so, 0.824 seconds quicker than Vitaly Petrov in his Renault