| 13:50:19
| Welcome to F1-Live.com and live coverage of the second Friday practice session in Bahrain. The 90-minute session gets underway shortly. |
| 13:52:12
| Ferrari dominated this morning with Felipe Massa setting the pace for the Italian champions. Massa stopped the clocks in 1:32.233s, just over a tenth clear of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen. |
| 13:54:24
| Williams Toyota vaulted up the order in the final minutes with Nico Rosberg third fastest and Kazuki Nakajima sixth. It remains to be seen if this was a low fuel run, or a reflection of the true pace of the FW30 package. |
| 13:56:06
| Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen were fourth and fifth fastest for McLaren but roughly half a second shy of the Ferrari pace. Robert Kubica was seventh for BMW Sauber ahead of Trulli, Coulthard and Alonso. |
| 13:58:07
| A number of drivers ran wide in the first session, but it was a largely uneventful affair for most with no spins or major mechanical dramas. Super Aguri Honda however only ran in the final ten minutes and predictably, propped up the bottom of the timesheets. |
| 14:00:04
| The second session is now underway. |
| 14:00:38
| Trulli, eighth fastest this morning, is first on track in his Toyota. |
| 14:00:53
| Vettel, Glock and Bourdais head out. |
| 14:02:01
| Rosberg heads out in his Williams. |
| 14:02:29
| Davidson is on track for Super Aguri Honda, Nakajima for Williams. |
| 14:02:59
| A slow lap from Glock who pits his Toyota. He seems to have a problem. |
| 14:03:30
| Yes, Glock has a downshift problem it seems on the TF108. |
| 14:03:48
| Renault have sent out Alonso and Piquet. |
| 14:04:09
| Barrichello and Kovalainen out too for Honda and McLaren. |
| 14:04:35
| Vettel sets the initial pace from Trulli. |
| 14:05:36
| Bourdais is on the soft tyre and moves fastest. |
| 14:05:54
| First laps coming in now from many of the early runners. |
| 14:06:28
| Fisichella and Sutil out for Force India. |
| 14:07:01
| Bourdais fastest now from Rosberg and Nakajima. |
| 14:08:00
| Kovalainen moves second fastest in his McLaren. |
| 14:08:54
| Bourdais pits after a good first stint on the soft tyre. |
| 14:09:40
| Using soft tyres, Fisichella moves second fastest. |
| 14:10:42
| Alonso and Piquet are working their way up the order. |
| 14:11:05
| Alonso runs wide but is able to continue. |
| 14:11:24
| Rosberg finds time and moves ahead of Kovalainen. |
| 14:11:56
| Heidfeld is on the soft tyre for his first run. |
| 14:12:16
| Heidfeld moves fastest in the BMW Sauber. |
| 14:13:27
| Heidfeld's F1.08 seems much better balanced than this morning as he improves again. |
| 14:13:52
| Raikkonen and Massa now on track for Ferrari. |
| 14:15:05
| Coulthard vaults second and is then immediately demoted by Trulli. |
| 14:15:33
| Hamilton on track as the Ferrari duo on their first timed laps. |
| 14:16:11
| Massa moves third on his first lap. |
| 14:16:25
| Raikkonen is on a faster lap. |
| 14:16:50
| Raikkonen moves P1 by a large margin. |
| 14:17:47
| Hamilton is on his first hot lap of the session. |
| 14:18:05
| Raikkonen is on the hard tyre, Hamilton the soft. |
| 14:18:49
| Hamilton moves fastest in his McLaren, two-tenths up on Raikkonen. |
| 14:19:46
| Barrichello moves into the top ten. |
| 14:21:23
| A slow lap from Massa who is sixth as Raikkonen gets lots of turn in oversteer into turn one. |
| 14:22:06
| Bourdais is third fastest for Toro Rosso ahead of Heidfeld now. |
| 14:22:47
| Raikkonen is right behind Piquet but backs off to find some clear air. |
| 14:23:31
| Raikkonen and Bourdais pit as Hamilton improves his own best time. |
| 14:24:09
| Kubica gains eight spots and is now up to fourth. |
| 14:25:17
| Another gain from Hamilton who is now nearly half a second clear of Raikkonen. |
| 14:26:31
| Nakajima is working his way up the order in the Williams. |
| 14:27:24
| Kovalainen is back out and looking to find time. |
| 14:28:39
| Kovalainen does find time and vaults fourth fastest, seven-tenths behind his team-mate. He too is on the softer tyre. |
| 14:29:36
| Vettel is on track but making little progress at the moment in his STR. |
| 14:29:54
| Coulthard moves fifth in his Red Bull Renault. |
| 14:30:58
| Coulthard is on another good lap on the harder tyre. |
| 14:31:17
| Alonso, 18th, is back out in his Renault. |
| 14:31:56
| Alonso picks up time and is now into the top ten. |
| 14:33:51
| Massa, 12th, is back out in his Ferrari. |
| 14:34:16
| Timo Glock moves eighth. |
| 14:35:04
| Bourdais is now second to Hamilton as Massa is on a flying lap. |
| 14:35:39
| Massa moves fastest from Hamilton as Davidson runs off track. |
| 14:36:06
| Button gains 11 spots and is now eighth for Honda. |
| 14:38:56
| Raikkonen is back out in his Ferrari. He is currently fourth. |
| 14:39:27
| Sato improves and moves ahead of Sutil and Vettel. |
| 14:40:08
| Nakajima moves ninth in his Williams. |
| 14:40:39
| Raikkonen picks up a position and is now third. |
| 14:43:45
| Trulli finds some time and is now back up to eighth. Toyota tested at this circuit in the off-season and should have an early advantage. |
| 14:45:13
| Raikkonen runs across the kerbing at turn 2-3 and is able to continue. Coulthard moves ahead of Kovalainen who is in the pit. |
| 14:45:35
| Massa is fastest from Hamilton, Raikkonen and Bourdais. |
| 14:47:17
| Hamilton is back out but not improving his time at the moment. |
| 14:47:41
| Rosberg is 17th at the moment but back out and looking to improve. |
| 14:48:17
| Rosberg moves sixth on the soft tyre. |
| 14:50:18
| Long stints at the moment from the Ferrari duo and Hamilton. |
| 14:51:04
| Sutil moves ahead of Force India team-mate Fisichella. |
| 14:51:46
| Nakajima is now up to fourth in the Williams. |
| 14:53:28
| Vettel is surprisingly off the pace at the moment in his STR. He is currently almost three seconds adrift of team-mate Bourdais. |
| 14:55:35
| Webber is out on the soft tyre and looking to move up from 16th. |
| 14:56:30
| Webber does find time and moves ninth, just over a second slower than Massa. |
| 15:00:11
| The Ferrari duo are in the pit, Hamilton remains on a long stint. This is race prep work for most of the runners, even if the track is not in particularly good condition at the moment. |
| 15:00:30
| Rosberg moves third fastest in his Williams ahead of Raikkonen and Nakajima. |
| 15:01:40
| Rosberg pits, Massa heads back out. |
| 15:04:15
| Massa improves his own best time and is now nearly half a second clear of Hamilton who is in the pit. |
| 15:05:25
| Piquet vaults up the order to seventh in the Renault. Alonso is currently 18th as Raikkonen starts a hot lap. |
| 15:06:30
| Raikkonen moves second to make it a Ferrari one-two. |
| 15:07:46
| Kubica leads the way for BMW at the moment and is back out. |
| 15:09:47
| Raikkonen pits his Ferrari. |
| 15:10:35
| Raikkonen is straight back out. |
| 15:10:57
| Alonso is back out on the softer tyre. |
| 15:12:51
| Alonso has been unable to improve and remains 18th. |
| 15:13:31
| Raikkonen has pitted again. Massa and Hamilton remain on track. |
| 15:14:56
| Massa is just over a tenth off his morning best with 15 minutes remaining. |
| 15:16:30
| Rosberg runs off track but is able to continue. |
| 15:18:13
| Fisichella gains a spot and is now back ahead of Force India team-mate Sutil. |
| 15:18:35
| Massa joins Raikkonen in the pits. |
| 15:19:52
| Kovalainen is ninth but now on a better lap. |
| 15:20:18
| Kovalainen moves third in his McLaren. |
| 15:20:50
| Hamilton is off. |
| 15:21:20
| A big off for Hamilton, the yellow flags are out. |
| 15:21:53
| Rear damage, damage to the right hand side of the car. |
| 15:22:44
| He just lost it after taking too much kerbing and then sideways into the barrier. |
| 15:23:23
| So that is the end of Hamilton's session and a lot of work for the McLaren team to do overnight. |
| 15:24:57
| Massa is in the pits but remains fastest from Raikkonen, Kovalainen, Hamilton, Rosberg, Nakajima, Bourdais, Piquet, Coulthard and Button. |
| 15:25:08
| Five minutes remain. |
| 15:26:16
| Kubica is on a better lap and looking to move up. |
| 15:26:30
| Kubica moves fifth using the softer tyre. |
| 15:27:44
| Raikkonen improves and is now fastest from Massa and Kovalainen. Alonso is on a better lap on the soft tyre looking to move up from P19. |
| 15:28:23
| All but Fisichella and Hamilton on track. |
| 15:28:37
| Alonso improves and is now P12. |
| 15:29:24
| Alonso would have been faster but was baulked by Sutil. |
| 15:29:47
| Massa moves fastest from Raikkonen. |
| 15:30:20
| Sutil and Alonso get together and continue. |
| 15:30:31
| The chequered flag is out. |
| 15:31:21
| Actually it was just Alonso running into the side of Sutil for some reason. Frustration at the previous baulk. |
| 15:31:40
| Coulthard improves and is now seventh. |
| 15:32:27
| So Massa is fastest from Raikkonen, Kovalainen, Hamilton, Kubica, Rosberg, Coulthard, Nakajima, Bourdais and Piquet. |