Interlagos, 25 November

The Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa ended up in fourth and sixth places after the second session of free practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix, taking place this weekend at Sao Paulo’s Interlagos circuit. Replacing his spent engine a few minutes before the end of the morning session with one already used during the season will not bring a penalty for the Spanish Scuderia Ferrari driver. He set the fourth quickest time (1.13.598) just behind the best of the session, Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren (1.13.392), Sebastian Vettel (1.13.559) and Mark Webber (1.13.587) in the Red Bulls.

After starting out on the experimental Hard tyres brought to the Brazilian round, both Ferrari drivers went on to test the two compounds on offer by Pirelli – Medium and Soft. Felipe Massa set the sixth fastest time (1.13.750) after 39 laps at his home track in a session that was disrupted by a series of yellow flags that made it hard to analyse the long runs. For Scuderia Ferrari there is one more hour of free practice available tomorrow morning before the decisive qualifying session scheduled for 1400 local time.