I promise you, there has been some on-track action today, with both free practice sessions having been completed at Northamptonshire’s Silverstone circuit. While the news of the day has been centred on the political wranglings, Sebastian Vettel has been driving well and managed to out-pace his team mate for the second session and post another fastest lap. The surprise of the afternoon was Adrian Sutil though, who went P3 in the Force India, which is impressive considering his more experienced team mate is languishing down in P19.

The wind picked up after lunch and was causing havoc with the balance of the cars. Many drivers had moments, particularly under braking to Stowe when the drivers attempt to control the car decelerating from the fast Hangar Straight into the moderately fast right-hander. There were also a few spits of rain during the lunch break, but this did little to upset the cars.

Like in the morning session, Red Bull Racing looked strong and were again comfortably the fastest, Vettel posting a lap 0.1s up on his team mate Mark Webber, who was a leisurely 0.7s clear of the Force India in P3.

Adrian Sutil drove well (until he collided with Fisichella’s car in the pitlane at the end of the afternoon) and posted his quick lap early on. The improvements made to the VJM-02 car are clearly working well, but it remains to be seen if the local team can carry this pace through Saturday and into Sunday. Of course, thoughts cannot help but turn to maiden points for Vijay Mallya’s team, particularly as the team’s factory is just over the road from the circuit.

Not performing as well as expected are Ferrari. Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen languish in P17 and P18 respectively. Also slipping a little were Toyota and Brawn. Rubens Barrichello managed to semi-respectable P6, but Silverstone favourite Jenson Button ended his day in P14.

Robert Kubica had a swiftly executed engine change after low oil pressure readings were noted and Nelson Piquet improved himself considerably after the break, going from P18 and 1m21.525s to P10 and 1m20.608s. Kazuki Nakajima also enjoyed the afternoon more, finishing in P4 and improving his time by 1.5s.

Silverstone 2009 Friday Free Practice Two		Lap Time Fastest Time Set	Laps Set Number Laps Set
1.	Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing	1m19.456s	39 Laps
2.	Mark Webber Red Bull Racing	1m19.597s	35 Laps
3.	Adrian Sutil Force India	1m20.141s	41 Laps
4.	Kazuki Nakajima Williams	1m20.209s	36 Laps
5.	Fernando Alonso Renault	1m20.237s	36 Laps
6.	Rubens Barrichello Brawn	1m20.244s	26 Laps
7.	Lewis Hamilton McLaren	1m20.417s	35 Laps
8.	Jarno Trulli Toyota	1m20.458s	40 Laps
9.	Nico Rosberg Williams	1m20.468s	42 Laps
10.	Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault	1m20.608s	37 Laps
11.	Robert Kubica BMW	1m20.622s	23 Laps
12.	Heikki Kovalainen McLaren	1m20.733s	37 Laps
13.	Timo Glock Toyota	1m20.762s	37 Laps
14.	Jenson Button Brawn	1m20.767s	28 Laps
15.	Nick Heidfeld BMW	1m20.932s	35 Laps
16.	Sebastien Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso	1m20.945s	36 Laps
17.	Felipe Massa Ferrari	1m21.005s	37 Laps
18.	Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari	1m21.132s	38 Laps
19.	Giancarlo Fisichella Force India	1m21.413s	40 Laps
20.	Sebastien Buemi Scuderia Toro Rosso	1m21.668s	37 Laps