Belgian Grand Prix: Second practice a washout at rainy Spa

With track conditions even worse than the morning session but a more promising forecast for the rest of the weekend, few saw any point in risking damage by running on the saturated track on Friday afternoon.

It was 48 minutes into the session before a car took to the track at all, with Nico Rosberg first to brave the puddles.

His Mercedes team-mate Michael Schumacher would also venture out, as did Heikki Kovalainen, the McLaren, Saubers, Williams, Marussias, Ferraris, Toro Rossos and Force Indias. Many only came out at the very end so they could do a practice start, logging some nominal times - including stopping on the grid - as a result.

Nico Hulkenberg had the most running, but still completed a mere five laps.

Ferrari did attempt to get some work done, with Massa setting off with flo-vis paint on his rear wing - although it soon appeared to wash off. The Brazilian had an engine change between sessions following his morning failure.

No one was willing to push hard, but even so Kovalainen had a spin on the way out of Les Combes and Hamilton slid over the run-off at the same point, demonstrating how slippery conditions were.

Pos  Driver              Car                   Time       Gap        Laps
 1.  Charles Pic         Marussia-Cosworth     2m49.354s             4
 2.  Daniel Ricciardo    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    2m49.750s  + 0.396s   3
 3.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari               2m50.497s  + 1.143s   3
 4.  Paul di Resta       Force India-Mercedes  2m51.333s  + 1.979s   3
 5.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Renault      2m51.660s  + 2.306s   4
 6.  Timo Glock          Marussia-Cosworth     2m52.076s  + 2.722s   4
 7.  Kamui Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari        2m53.232s  + 3.878s   4
 8.  Jean-Eric Vergne    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    2m58.232s  + 8.878s   3
 9.  Nico Hulkenberg     Force India-Mercedes  2m59.125s  + 9.771s   5
10.  Sergio Perez        Sauber-Ferrari        3m12.901s  + 23.547s  4
11.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes                                    3
12.  Michael Schumacher  Mercedes                                    4
13.  Heikki Kovalainen   Caterham-Renault                            1
14.  Lewis Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes                            2
15.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault                            3
16.  Jenson Button       McLaren-Mercedes                            2
17.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari                                     2
18.  Bruno Senna         Williams-Renault                            3

All timing unofficial