Lewis Hamilton topped the time sheets in his McLaren in FP1. Followed by Vettel, Rosberg and Schumacher in 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively. The Ferrari's struggled, with Massa using his new chassis, in only 13th place. That however was faster than his team mate Alonso who was a couple of places further down.
Further down the order, the HRT's got some running in at last but were 7 seconds off the pace. Caterham will be happy with being in the thick of the midfield, only two seconds off Hamilton's time.
In second practice Hamilton again topped the timing charts, making him the fastest driver of the day. He was again followed closely by Schumacher in the fast looking Mercedes. Button in the other McLaren followed close behind. Rosberg completed the top four. Both these teams look good at Sepang.
After a good start in Melbourne, Sauber look to be struggling on a few points, one of which is tyre degradation, normally one of the things they're good at.
Lotus had an issue with KERS on Kimi Raikkonen's car which left him further down the order than he should be. Meanwhile his team mate Romain Grosjean ended up a respectable ninth position.
The HRT's closed the gap to 5 seconds in practice 2, compared to 7 seconds in the first session.
Now it's a wait until tomorrow for third practice and qualifying. We will have a report on qualifying soon after it finishes tomorrow. From today's showing, expect to see McLaren and Mercedes right up there at the front.
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