Mikkel Mac leads damp first Nurburgring Formula 2 practice

For the second weekend running F2's drivers were faced with difficult, damp conditions, but Mac coped best to post a time of 1m51.199s and go fastest.

Mac had traded fastest laps with championship leader Mirko Bortolotti, but sealed top spot on his tenth tour of the German circuit.

Bortolotti was forced to settle for second, although India's Armaan Ebrahim did his best to drop the Italian further down the order - just 0.001s separating the pair at the session's close.

Having claimed a maiden F2 victory last time out at Spa-Francorchamps, Will Bratt ended the 45-minute session fourth fastest, less than a quarter of a second down the road.

Britain's Jack Clarke rounded out the top five ahead of Miki Monras, who lost ground to the championship leaders at Spa last weekend.

In only his second F2 race weekend Jordan King was again on good form, heading the timesheets early on and ending the session seventh fastest.

Tobias Hegewald beat erstwhile championship leader Christopher Zanella to eighth, while Alex Brundle closed out the top 10.

2010 F2 runner-up Jolyon Palmer finished the session 14th fastest, as he makes a one-off return ahead of GP2's visit to the Nurburgring at the end of the month.

Pos  Driver                Time       Gap
 1.  Mikkel Mac            1m51.199s
 2.  Mirko Bortolotti      1m51.365s  + 0.166s
 3.  Armaan Ebrahim        1m51.366s  + 0.167s
 4.  Will Bratt            1m51.432s  + 0.233s
 5.  Jack Clarke           1m51.659s  + 0.460s
 6.  Miki Monràs           1m51.783s  + 0.584s
 7.  Jordan King           1m51.801s  + 0.602s
 8.  Tobias Hegewald       1m51.862s  + 0.663s
 9.  Christopher Zanella   1m51.970s  + 0.771s
10.  Alex Brundle          1m51.973s  + 0.774s
11.  Johannes Theobald     1m52.084s  + 0.885s
12.  Kelvin Snoeks         1m52.121s  + 0.922s
13.  Mihai Marinescu       1m52.166s  + 0.967s
14.  Jolyon Palmer         1m52.360s  + 1.161s
15.  Benjamin Lariche      1m52.670s  + 1.471s
16.  James Cole            1m52.947s  + 1.748s
17.  Ramon Pineiro         1m53.238s  + 2.039s
18.  Maxim Snegirev        1m53.252s  + 2.053s
19.  Sunghak Mun           1m53.385s  + 2.186s
20.  Thiemo Storz          1m53.464s  + 2.265s
21.  Julian Theobald       1m53.511s  + 2.312s
22.  Plamen Kralev         1m53.783s  + 2.584s
23.  Fabio Gamberini       1m54.460s  + 3.261s
24.  Parthiva Sureshwaren  1m54.519s  + 3.320s