For the AT&T Williams team, after seeing team driver Rubens Barrichello finish seventh in the opening Friday practice, they were hopeful of seeing further good performances from both drivers in the afternoon Friday practice. Rubens had been backed up by Nico Hulkenberg who finished in twelfth.

Both Rubens and Nico would take to the track early in the session and Nico would set the early pace going fastest with a 1m:15.488. But Nico's time was well off the quickest pace so he was quickly passed by other drivers. But Nico would improve his time to again be fastest with a 1m:14.327 but again it was only briefly. With ten minutes of the session completed it would be Hamilton who was fastest with time of 1m:13.603. Team-mate Button would be second but he was passed by Schumacher. Rubens would move up to fourth with a 1m:14.123 lap. With quarter of an hour of the session completed Nico would pit after managing to see himself in seventh.

Rubens would also join Nico in the pit but they would come back out with thirty minutes of the session completed for their next series of runs. Nico was currently in eleventh and Rubens one place further back in twelfth. At the front it would be Webber fastest, 1m:12.387, from Vettel and Hamilton. Rubens would improve three places from twelfth to ninth with a lap of 1m:13.717. He was now 1.383s down on Webber's quickest time. With forty five minutes of the session remaining the order was Webber from Vettel, Hamilton, Massa, Button, and Alonso in sixth. As the last thirty minutes commenced drivers would start their soft tyre runs with Massa moving into third, 1m:12.677, but still behind the times been set by Webber and Vettel on the harder tyre.

On the softer tyre Webber was even faster with a time of 1m:12.072. Alonso would improve to be third with Hamilton now fourth. But Vettel would find a few tenths to move ahead of Webber with a 1m:11.968. So Vettel was now fastest from team-mate Webber with Alonso third, Hamilton fourth, Massa fifth and Kubica in sixth. Both Rubens and Nico were out on the track with both on the super-soft tyre. But Nico was running with a lot of fuel and would cross the line setting a time in the 1m17s. Nico was currently thirteenth while Rubens was only in eleventh. They would finish the session in these positions. Both Williams drivers were outside the top ten but with the team normally carrying out setup work on the Friday their ultimate pace may not have been on display.

Pos  Driver	    Team		    Time      Laps
 1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault         1:11.968  28
 2.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault         1:12.072  34
 3.  Alonso         Ferrari                  1:12.328  36
 4.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes         1:12.656  33
 5.  Massa          Ferrari                  1:12.677  19
 6.  Kubica         Renault                  1:12.882  37
 7.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes         1:13.206  33
 8.  Heidfeld       Sauber-Ferrari           1:13.222  40
 9.  Rosberg        Mercedes                 1:13.333  34
10.  Schumacher     Mercedes                 1:13.346  36
11.  Barrichello    AT&T Williams-Cosworth   1:13.520  37
12.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari           1:13.610  41
13.  Hulkenberg     AT&T Williams-Cosworth   1:13.725  39
14.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes     1:13.741  32
15.  Petrov         Renault                  1:13.818  26
16.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes     1:14.045  37
17.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari       1:14.304  33
18.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari       1:14.578  37
19.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth           1:14.984  47
20.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth           1:15.101  43
21.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth          1:15.433  35
22.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth             1:16.070  42
23.  Klien          HRT-Cosworth             1:16.082  38
24.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth          1:16.150  35