The second Friday practice at Suzuka would commence with Vergne again first to come out. For the Williams F1 team Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas had finished the first session in tenth and eighteenth. For the second session Bruno Senna would return replacing Valtteri. Bruno would be the first out followed shortly after by Pastor. It was reported that Rosberg's problem was engine related seeing the Mercedes team forced to make an engine change on Rosberg's car. For those out on the track hard tyres were the choice as the drivers started timed laps. Vergne would set a 1m:36.287 but he was passed by Perez with a 1m:35.374. Grosjean would go fastest with a 1m:34.514 while Bruno was currently fifth with a time of 1m:37.282. Pastor would have a moment seeing his car run over the kerb seeing his lap time a 1m:47.918.

Di Resta would have a bigger moment crashing his car into the tyre barrier at the Spoon curve with his car badly damaged. He had put his car onto the grass and dirt seeing his car spin into the barrier. This would see the session red flagged. Grosjean was still fastest from Vettel with a 1m:35.127, followed by Perez, Vergne, Ricciardo, Bruno, Petrov, Glock, Karthikeyan, Pic, De la Rosa, Kovalainen, and Pastor in thirteenth. As the Force India was craned away there was a lot of damage to the front of his car. The session would restart with just over an hour and fifteen minutes remaining. Bruno would come out early followed by a rush of drivers with both McLaren, Ferrari, and Red Bull cars out on the track. Pastor was still in his pit while both Mercedes cars were still being worked on, Rosberg's an engine change and Schumacher's setup changes.

Alonso would go fastest with a 1m:34.287 and Webber now third followed by Kobayashi and Button. Vettel was now seventh seeing Bruno drop to eleventh. Hamilton would also go faster moving into second with a 1m:34.398. Grosjean was now third as Massa moved into seventh with a time of 1m:34.964. Pastor was now down in nineteenth and out on the track. Vettel would also improve to be third with a time of 1m:34.481. Hulkenberg was now sixth, 1m:34.853, as Alonso went fastest in sectors one and three but did not improve his lap time. Perez was now up to tenth, 1m:34.974. Webber would move ahead of Grosjean with a 1m:34.509 to be fourth. Alonso had pitted as Hamilton improved his time with a 1m:34.304 but remained second.

Pastor had found pace seeing him move up to twelfth with a 1m:36.039. His next lap would also see him improve with a 1m:35.381 to now be eleventh. Bruno was fifteenth but his next lap would see him move up to eleventh with a time of 1m:35.379. This would see Pastor twelfth as at the front Button would go fastest with a 1m:34.150 with Webber now second, 1m:34.188. Bruno had pitted as Grosjean was on a quick lap going fastest in sector's one and two. He would finish his lap with a 1m:34.259 to be third. After their first runs drivers would start to pit leaving just a handful of drivers still out, one being Pastor. Petrov was out on the track and was the first to try the soft Pirelli tyre. Alonso and Vettel were back out with Vettel going fastest with a time of 1m:34.080. With fifty five minutes remaining Vettel was fastest from Button, Webber, Grosjean, Alonso, Hamilton, Perez, Massa, Hulkenberg, and Kobayashi in tenth.

Pastor had pitted while Bruno came back out as Vettel went faster with a 1m:33.961. More drivers were back out on the track while for Mercedes they were still working on their cars, neither of which had set a time. Kobayashi was on the soft tyre and on a quick lap. He would finish his lap with a 1m:33.983 to be second. He was 0.022 behind Vettel but Vettel's time was set on the hard tyre. Pastor was again out on the track as Button was on the soft tyre seeing him go fastest in sector one and two. Bruno and Pastor were now down in thirteenth and fourteenth. Button would complete his lap setting a 1m:33.349 to be 0.612 ahead of Vettel. Grosjean was also on the soft tyre joined by Pastor, Perez, and several other drivers. Pastor would improve to be eighth with a 1m:34.300. Grosjean would complete his lap setting a 1m:33.107 to be fastest. Bruno was now in fifteenth as Massa moved up to third, 1m:33.614.

Pos  Driver         	 Team		       Time      Laps
 1.  Mark Webber         Red Bull-Renault      1m32.493  34
 2.  Lewis Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes      1m32.707s 32
 3.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault      1m32.836s 37
 4.  Nico Hulkenberg     Force India-Mercedes  1m32.987s 30
 5.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari               1m33.093s 28
 6.  Romain Grosjean     Lotus-Renault         1m33.107s 35
 7.  Jenson Button       McLaren-Mercedes      1m33.349s 22
 8.  Bruno Senna         Williams-Renault      1m33.499s 35
 9.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari               1m33.614s 32
10.  Michael Schumacher  Mercedes              1m33.750s 13
11.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes              1m33.866s 19
12.  Sergio Perez        Sauber-Ferrari        1m33.903s 36
13.  Kamui Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari        1m33.9$3s 33
14.  Kimi Raikkonen      Lotus-Renault         1m34.291s 12
15.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Renault      1m34.300s 33
16.  Daniel Ricciardo    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m34.863s 32
17.  Jean-Eric Vergne    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m35.080s 34
18.  Heikki Kovalainen   Caterham-Renault      1m35.711s 41
19.  Vitaly Petrov       Caterham-Renault      1m35.870s 37
20.  Timo Glock          Marussia-Cosworth     1m36.194s 32
21.  Charles Pic         Marussia-Cosworth     1m36.636s 28
22.  Pedro de la Rosa    HRT-Cosworth          1m37.342s 30
23.  Narain Karthikeyan  HRT-Cosworth          1m37.701s 35
24.  Paul di Resta       Force India-Mercedes  No time   2