The opening Friday practice for the 2014 Russian Grand Prix would see the Williams Martini team place their drivers tenth and eleventh with Valtteri Bottas leading team-mate Felipe Massa. Now it was the second session and with the start of the session Valtteri was out trying to make up for lost track time in the earlier session. With the initial runs we would see Button fastest with a 1m:41.928. Valtteri had improved to be second with a time of 1m:42.669, completing five laps prior to pitting. But Hamilton would move into second with a 1m:42.333. Valtteri was now third followed by Magnussen, Vettel, Kvyat, Hulkenberg, Perez, Vergne and Maldonado tenth. The second Williams of Felipe was still in his pit having yet to take to the track. Felipe was in his car but had yet to come out with fifteen minutes of the session run.

But he would eventually come out for his first run while Valtteri had pitted. Rosberg was out and would go fastest with a 1m:41.882 but team-mate Hamilton would move ahead with a 1m:41.750. Button was now third followed by Valtteri, Magnussen, Alonso, Perez, and Vettel in eighth. Felipe still had yet to set a time but his first lap was a 1m:43.067 to be eighth. Kvyat would move up to fourth with a 1m:42.558 as Rosberg moved ahead of Hamilton with a 1m:41.508. Button was now third but Alonso was now up to fourth with a 1m:42.527. Valtteri was now sixth and Felipe ninth. Hamilton had being on a quick lap but failed to improve remaining second. Felipe would also improve setting a 1m:42.530 to be fifth.

Valtteri was back out again as both Mercedes cars pitted. Vettel was down in eleventh and Ricciardo twelfth. Raikkonen was currently slowest as Valtteri moved into seventh with a 1m:42.669. Button was on a quick also and would set a 1m:41.750 but remained third. Vergne was now in fourth with a 1m:42.238 as Felipe pitted briefly. Felipe and Valtteri were now sixth and eighth with an hour remaining in the session. Felipe would pit followed by Valtteri shortly after. The track now only had a handful of cars running one being Valtteri whose pit stop had been brief. But he would pit again joining Felipe back in his pit. Drivers started to come back out this time on the soft option tyre. Both Sauber cars were on the soft tyre joined by Hulkenberg. Even with the use of the softer tyre Gutierrez could only manage a 1m:43.424 to be only twelfth. This was still an improvement of seven tenths over his medium tyre lap.

But Hulkenberg was able to find more time moving up to fourth with a time of 1m:41.969, a gain of 1.6 seconds. Raikkonen was out on the softer tyre while for Williams Felipe was now out on the soft tyre. Gutierrez had improved his time with a 1m:43.055 but remained twelfth. Button and Rosberg were now also out on the option tyre as Sutil moved up to fifth with a1m:42.233 only to see Raikkonen take this spot with a time of 1m:41.969. Hulkenberg was able to find further time moving into second with a 1m:41.677. Hamilton was out on the option tyre as Valtteri also came out for his option tyre run. Ricciardo would move up to tenth with a 1m:42.543 running on the softer tyre. Felipe was on a quick lap moving up to sixth with a 1m:42.198. Rosberg would go fastest in the first two sectors as Button set a 1m:41.196 to be quickest. But Rosberg would complete his lap going fastest in the final sector finishing with a 1m:41.027 to again be quickest.

Magnussen was now in second with a 1m:41.065 followed by Button and Hamilton. Valtteri was now fifth with a 1m:41.543 on his option tyre run. Felipe had dropped to be tenth but was on an improved lap. Alonso was still on the medium tyre and would improve his time with a 1m:41.985 to be eighth. Button would go fastest in the first two sectors as Felipe improved with a 1m:41.722 to be seventh. Button would finish with a 1m:40.718 to be quickest but Rosberg would go even faster with a 1m:40.596. Hamilton was on a quick lap setting a new first sector quickest time. Now it was Magnussen who would go fastest with a 1qm:40.494 but Hamilton would complete his lap going quickest with a 1m:39.817, to be quickest by 0.677 over Magnussen. Both McLaren's had pitted as Raikkonen moved into sixth, 1m:41.630. Felipe would aso find time setting a 1m:40.959 to be fifth with Valtteri now sixth. Valtteri would set a 1m:41.388 but remained sixth. Hamilton would also find time setting a 1m:39.630 having gone quicker in the first two sectors.

Felipe was on an improved lap still running on the option tyre, finishing with a 1m:40.731 but would remain fifth. He was six tenths ahead of his team-mate with just over thirty minutes remaining. Valtteri was also able to find time after several laps on the option tyre. He would finish with a 1m:40.573 to be fourth. Felipe was now sixth and had pitted with the order now Hamilton followed by Magnussen, Rosberg, Valtteri, Button, Felipe, Kvyat, Vergne, Raikkonen, and Hulkenberg tenth. Both McLaren's were back out as Valtteri pitted. Alonso would improve with a 1m:41.404 on his soft tyre run but this would see him only eighth. Ricciardo and Vettel were twelfth and seventeenth with twenty six minutes remaining. Rosberg would come back out as Valtteri pitted. Felipe was back out as Alonso moved up to seventh with a 1m:40.889.

With twenty minutes remaining there were only a few cars still in their pits with drivers on longer runs on the option tyre. Valtteri would pit briefly as Alonso moved up to third with a 1m:40.504. Felipe would also make a short pit stop seeing Ericsson the only driver now in the pits. But Alonso would also come in while for Williams Valtteri was now fifth and Felipe seventh. Ericsson would come out with fifteen minutes remaining. On their longer runs on the soft tyre drivers were setting times in the 1m:44sFelipe and Valtteri were running opposite tyre programmes with Felipe on the medium tyre and Valtteri the soft. Both Alonso and Button would make quick pit stops. Button was back out on the medium tyre with several other drivers also running on this tyre. The session would be red flagged when Ricciardo would stop his car out on the track in a location that was seen as dangerous. The track would empty as Ricciardo's car was recovered and put back behind the barriers.

The session would restart with just a few minutes remaining with quite a few drivers coming back out including both Williams cars. Raikkonen remained in his pit as the session came to a close. There was no change in the order was drivers started to return to the pit lane. Hamilton was fastest from Magnussen, Alonso, Rosberg, Valtteri, Button, Felipe, Kvyat, Vettel, and Vergne in tenth. For the Williams team being in fifth and seventh was again encouraging as well as the fact that Valtteri was able to set some very competitive times on his soft tyre longer run.

Pos Driver         	Team		        Time     Laps
1 Lewis Hamilton 	Mercedes 		1m39.630s
2 Kevin Magnussen 	McLaren-Mercedes	1m40.494s 32 
3 Fernando Alonso 	Ferrari 		1m40.504s 32 
4 Nico Rosberg 		Mercedes 		1m40.542s 30 
5 Valtteri Bottas 	Williams-Mercedes	1m40.573s 33 
6 Jenson Button 	McLaren-Mercedes	1m40.718s 32 
7 Felipe Massa 		Williams-Mercedes	1m40.731s 30 
8 Daniil Kvyat 		Toro Rosso-Renault	1m41.108s 32 
9 Sebastian Vettel 	Red Bull-Renault 	1m41.396s 30 
10 Jean-Eric Vergne 	Toro Rosso-Renault	1m41.531s 33 
11 Kimi Raikkonen 	Ferrari 		1m41.630s 24 
12 Nico Hulkenberg 	Force India-Mercedes	1m41.677s 27 
13 Daniel Ricciardo 	Red Bull-Renault	1m42.061s 25 
14 Sergio Perez 	Force India-Mercedes	1m42.090s 29 
15 Adrian Sutil 	Sauber-Ferrari 		1m42.233s 31 
16 Romain Grosjean 	Lotus-Renault 		1m42.892s 30 
17 Pastor Maldonado 	Lotus-Renault 		1m42.905s 33 
18 Esteban Gutierrez 	Sauber-Ferrari 		1m43.055s 33 
19 Marcus Ericsson 	Caterham-Renault	1m44.135s 22 
20 Max Chilton 		Marussia-Ferrari	1m44.530s 29 
21 Kamui Kobayashi 	Caterham-Renault	1m44.952s 27