Mark Webber led the way again in second practice for the Spanish Grand Prix, but there was encouragement for Red Bull’s rivals as McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was just 0.039 seconds off the pace as he split Webber and team-mate Sebastian Vettel.
Jenson Button took fourth in the other McLaren, 0.7s off the pace. Fernando Alonso was top Ferrari in fifth, a further 0.3s down and just ahead of the Mercedes. Both Alonso and Hamilton had enjoyed spells on top using hard tyres in the first half-hour before the soft-tyre runners came into play. Felipe Massa was 0.8s off his Ferrari team-mate Alonso’s time in eighth, followed by Kamui Kobayashi’s Sauber.