Practice 2: Kimi heads McLaren one-two

The Ferraris of Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, which had set the pace in the shortened first session, were relegated to third and fourth respectively.

Schumacher made the first move at the sharp end by going quickest with a 1m48.985s lap after eight minutes. Barrichello, who had been quickest in the first session, soon hit back with 1m48.527s. But from the 22nd minute onwards, the top times were all set by the McLarens.

Coulthard took first blood by slashing tenths of Ferrari's best and dipping into the 1m47s. Raikkonen soon followed suit and bettered his team-mate's mark.

Coulthard replied to that by shaving a tenth off Kimi's best, before the Finn set the final mark at 1m47.196s. His time was 0.16s quicker than DC's flier.

Schumacher was not far adrift of the McLarens, but Barrichello ended up some way off. His session ended in disappointment when he spun at Malmedy with seven minutes to go and beached his F2002 in the gravel.

Ralf Schumacher's Williams-BMW was fifth fastest, ahead of Jenson Button's Renault and the Jaguar of Pedro de la Rosa, whose session was hardly without its problems. The Spaniard was forced to push his R3 into the pits after power steering, throttle and misfire trouble in the final quarter of the session. Not much work for Jaguar to do there then.

Juan Pablo Montoya's session was fraught too. The Colombian did at least manage some flying laps this time, unlike in the first session, but his hour was littered with mistakes.

Montoya ran off the road three times, almost hitting the barrier on the second occasion. He lost the rear of his Williams going into Fagnes, caught the moment, but could not stop the car ploughing into the gravel. JPM just kept it out of the tyre wall and eventually ended up eighth fastest.

There was more woe for Honda in the second session. Following Olivier Panis' V10 blowing at the end of the first session, Takuma Sato's grenaded this time. The Jordan driver was forced to pull off at Les Combes.

British rookie Anthony Davidson ended up 18th out of the 20 cars on track, finding himself sandwiched between the two off-the-pace Saubers. But the Minardi stand-in for Alex Yoong had a heart-stopping moment early in the session when he ran wide at Blanchimont. It was lucky for him that the flat-out left-hander has tarmac run-off on the outside.

Davidson's team-mate Mark Webber propped up the times, but that is hardly representative. His PS02 stopped as soon as he left the pits after 25 minutes.

Once again, neither Arrows appeared on the track. Whether the team's mechanics and (currently) lone driver Enrique Bernoldi will be employed over the weekend is anyone's guess.