Massa flies in practice 2 - Hungary

The young Ferrari driver clocked a best time of 1:21.778 seconds to outpace nearest rival and defending world champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso in his Renault by 1.3 seconds.

But his time was no improvement on the best time of the morning session and confirmed that on a dull, grey and dreary day at the slow Hungaroring circuit the weather was the real winner.

Italian Giancarlo Fisichella was third for Renault, while seven-time champion German Michael Schumacher was only seventh in the second Ferrari after an hour of activity that revealed precious little about Saturday's qualifying or Sunday's race prospects.

After only four minutes of the afternoon session, Japan's Sakon Yamamoto, driving a Super Aguri Honda, went off the track at turn four, but regained control. He was followed swiftly by German Markus Winkelhock, in his Midland-Toyota, performing the same feat at turn 11.

Then, after 13 minutes of the hour, Dutchman Robert Doornbos explored the off-line flora turn seven, in his Red Bull.

This resulted in some clearing up and no sooner was the track clean again, as the drivers attempted to improve their pace in the drying conditions under an overcast sky, than Fisichella, who had gone off in the morning, went off again. This time, it was turn seven that claimed him and his Renault. 

Vitantonio Liuzzi, in his Toro Rosso Cosworth, joined Fisichella in the list of over-enthusiastic drivers to have enjoyed an excursion after 39 minutes at turn one as visibility improved and the temperature rose.

Austrian Christian Klien in a Red Bull Ferrari and then Christijan Albers, in a Midland Toyota, also went off.

By this stage, the air temperature was a modest 20 degrees Celsius, the track measured at 28 and the humidity was 75 per cent. It was no wonder that many in the paddock were mourning, without irony, the recent English heatwave.

Earlier in the day, during the morning's free practice hour, Kimi Raikkonen had topped the times, the Finn in his McLaren Mercedes-Benz winding up ahead of Briton Anthony Davidson in a Honda at the end of a dull and overcast session.

Pos  Driver        Team                     Time              Laps
 1.  Massa         Ferrari             (B)  1:21.778           12
 2.  Alonso        Renault             (M)  1:23.097 + 1.319   15
 3.  Fisichella    Renault             (M)  1:23.189 + 1.411   14
 4.  Doornbos      Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:23.195 + 1.417   30
 5.  Davidson      Honda               (M)  1:23.498 + 1.720   31
 6.  R.Schumacher  Toyota              (B)  1:23.747 + 1.969   19
 7.  Trulli        Toyota              (B)  1:23.771 + 1.993   18
 8.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari             (B)  1:23.931 + 2.153   19
 9.  Heidfeld      BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:23.934 + 2.156   11
10.  Kubica        BMW-Sauber          (M)  1:24.106 + 2.328   11
11.  de la Rosa    McLaren-Mercedes    (M)  1:24.252 + 2.474   11
12.  Winkelhock    MF1-Toyota          (B)  1:24.381 + 2.603   28
13.  Barrichello   Honda               (M)  1:24.445 + 2.667   17
14.  Button        Honda               (M)  1:24.465 + 2.687   15
15.  Monteiro      MF1-Toyota          (B)  1:24.508 + 2.730   8
16.  Wurz          Williams-Cosworth   (B)  1:24.609 + 2.831   31
17.  Sato          Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:24.623 + 2.845   23
18.  Rosberg       Williams-Cosworth   (B)  1:24.793 + 3.015   12
19.  Jani          Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:24.854 + 3.076   33
20.  Albers        MF1-Toyota          (B)  1:25.038 + 3.260   7
21.  Speed         Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:25.152 + 3.374   16
22.  Webber        Williams-Cosworth   (B)  1:25.393 + 3.615   8
23.  Klien         Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:25.647 + 3.869   14
24.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Ferrari    (M)  1:25.843 + 4.065   12
25.  Raikkonen     McLaren-Mercedes    (M)  1:25.968 + 4.190   11
26.  Liuzzi        Toro Rosso-Cosworth (M)  1:26.198 + 4.420   16
27.  Yamamoto      Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:26.877 + 5.099   20

All Timing Unofficial