Yeongam, 4 October

The forecast for Sunday is for rain, but for now the Yeongam circuit is bathed in sunshine and the temperature is 20 degrees. Felipe Massa ended the second session in fifth place with a time of 1.39.114, while Fernando Alonso was seventh in 1.39.444.

Felipe got going immediately to make up for the time lost this morning when he had a puncture. Both F138s ran the Medium tyre to begin with: 7 laps for Massa (1.40.319) and 8 for Alonso (1.40.096.) After thirty minutes the programme switched to qualifying runs on the Supersoft tyres, with Felipe knocking over a second off his time, while Fernando ran into traffic and improved by 0.652 thousandths.

After that, it was time for long runs and practice starts, with Alonso doing many laps on the Supersoft, only fitting the Mediums for the final three minutes, while Massa did his long runs on the Medium. The results were promising, but it could be for nothing if the rain does indeed arrive on Sunday. Massa and Alonso completed 30 and 31 laps respectively. Fastest this afternoon was Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes with a time of 1.38.673.