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Davidson on top in practice 2 - Spain

Honda third driver Anthony Davidson set the pace in the second free practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix

The Briton topped the times with 1:16.553, after completing 38 laps of the Barcelona circuit.

Although the time was slower than Brazilian Felipe Massa's benchmark time from the morning session, it was still good enough to beat Red Bull test driver Robert Doornbos by almost three tenths of a second.

World champion Fernando Alonso delighted his home crowd by taking to the track but could not find the pace to top the times. He was third quickest for Renault.

Williams test driver Alex Wurz was fourth ahead of his compatriot Christian Klien in a Red Bull. German Michael Schumacher completed the top six, but his Ferrari teammate Massa was a poor 17th.

The first incident of the hour-long session came when Doornbos spun off into the gravel trap at the tricky turn seven after half an hour.

Doornbos was pushed back on to the track by marshals, but was left on the apex of the corner and was nearly hit by BMW Sauber tester Robert Kubica, who was forced to take avoiding action.

Doornbos kept the engine running throughout and was able to re-join the track and set the second quickest time later on.

Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi suffered at the corner as well as he dropped two wheels of his Toro Rosso onto the grass.

And Franck Montagny also had an off-track moment with 15 minutes remaining as he understeered off at the 200 kilometres per hour Campsa corner, but kept his foot on the accelerator and made it back onto the circuit.

Juan Pablo Montoya suffered the most bizarre incident of the session as the left wing mirror fell off his McLaren with ten minutes remaining.

Pos  Driver        Team                     Time             Laps
 1.  Davidson      Honda               (M)  1:16.533          38
 2.  Doornbos      Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:16.824 + 0.291  29
 3.  Alonso        Renault             (M)  1:16.860 + 0.327  16
 4.  Wurz          Williams-Cosworth   (B)  1:17.075 + 0.542  30
 5.  Klien         Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:17.086 + 0.553  10
 6.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari             (B)  1:17.100 + 0.567  21
 7.  Fisichella    Renault             (M)  1:17.291 + 0.758  17
 8.  Button        Honda               (M)  1:17.414 + 0.881  12
 9.  Barrichello   Honda               (M)  1:17.417 + 0.884  16
10.  R.Schumacher  Toyota              (B)  1:17.506 + 0.973  25
11.  Trulli        Toyota              (B)  1:17.610 + 1.077  30
12.  Heidfeld      BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:17.622 + 1.089  18
13.  Kubica        BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:17.844 + 1.311  34
14.  Webber        Williams-Cosworth   (B)  1:17.908 + 1.375  14
15.  Raikkonen     McLaren-Mercedes    (M)  1:17.933 + 1.400   4
16.  Villeneuve    BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:18.007 + 1.474  13
17.  Massa         Ferrari             (B)  1:18.223 + 1.690  19
18.  Montoya       McLaren-Mercedes    (M)  1:18.261 + 1.728   5
19.  Rosberg       Williams-Cosworth   (B)  1:18.283 + 1.750  18
20.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:18.410 + 1.877   6
21.  Jani          Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:18.774 + 2.241  32
22.  Mondini       MF1-Toyota          (B)  1:18.910 + 2.377  22
23.  Speed         Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:19.257 + 2.724  22
24.  Liuzzi        Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:19.334 + 2.801  18
25.  Albers        MF1-Toyota          (B)  1:19.358 + 2.825  15
26.  Sato          Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:19.616 + 3.083  30
27.  Monteiro      MF1-Toyota          (B)  1:20.311 + 3.778  19
28.  Montagny      Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:22.222 + 5.689  21

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