Jules Bianchi fastest from Kevin Magnussen in second practice

The Ferrari junior driver, who led the way for much of the morning session before getting pushed back to second by Antonio Felix da Costa, moved to the head of the times inside the final 10 minutes this time round.

That ended a relatively long spell at the top for Kevin Magnussen, who had briefly led a Carlin 1-2 with team-mate Will Stevens when there was around 15 of the 60 minutes remaining.

Stevens had to make do with eighth as several drivers improved in the final quarter of an hour, and morning pacesetter da Costa nearly repeated his trick by jumping up the order in the final couple of minutes.

However, this time he could only go third, leaving Bianchi and Magnussen in the top two places.

Marco Sorensen was just ahead of title contender Sam Bird as they took fourth and fifth, while da Costa's team-mate Alexander Rossi made sure both Arden Caterham drivers were in the top six.

Just behind Rossi was championship leader Robin Frijns, who completed a solid day of work in a brand new chassis after his original car was destroyed in a crash during a straightline test earlier this week.

Pos  Driver                  Team            Time       Gap
 1.  Jules Bianchi           Tech 1          1m41.241s
 2.  Kevin Magnussen         Carlin          1m41.297s  + 0.056s
 3.  Antonto Felix da Costa  Arden Caterham  1m41.318s  + 0.077s
 4.  Marco Sorensen          Lotus           1m41.321s  + 0.080s
 5.  Sam Bird                ISR             1m41.404s  + 0.163s
 6.  Alexander Rossi         Arden Caterham  1m41.541s  + 0.300s
 7.  Robin Frijns            Fortec          1m41.551s  + 0.310s
 8.  Will Stevens            Carlin          1m41.581s  + 0.340s
 9.  Arthur Pic              DAMS            1m41.643s  + 0.402s
10.  Nick Yelloly            Comtec          1m42.040s  + 0.799s
11.  Nigel Melker            Lotus           1m42.122s  + 0.881s
12.  Nico Muller             Draco           1m42.267s  + 1.026s
13.  Carlos Huertas          Fortec          1m42.585s  + 1.344s
14.  Walter Grubmuller       P1              1m42.601s  + 1.360s
15.  Mikhail Aleshin         RFR             1m42.625s  + 1.384s
16.  Andre Negrao            Draco           1m42.832s  + 1.591s
17.  Jake Rosenzweig         ISR             1m42.840s  + 1.599s
18.  Yann Cunha              Pons            1m42.944s  + 1.703s
19.  Daniil Move             P1              1m42.945s  + 1.704s
20.  Kevin Korjus            Tech 1          1m43.225s  + 1.984s
21.  Vittorio Ghirelli       Comtec          1m43.265s  + 2.024s
22.  Zoel Amberg             Pons            1m43.334s  + 2.093s
23.  Lucas Foresti           DAMS            1m43.556s  + 2.315s
24.  Nikolay Martsenko       BVM Target      1m43.583s  + 2.342s
25.  Anton Nebylitskiy       RFR             1m43.606s  + 2.365s
26.  Daniel Zampieri         BVM Traget      1m45.568s  + 4.327s