Team Summary:
Both Williams drivers would start the second Friday practice session at Spa running on the soft tyre. They would be first and second after their first timed laps but Raikkonen would go ahead with a 1m:49.926 also on the soft tyre. Ricciardo was now second with Valtteri and Felipe now third and fourth. Verstappen was now fourth followed by Hulkenberg, Rosberg, Perez, Vettel, and Felipe. Of the top ten Rosberg was the only one on the medium tyre. Raikkonen had improved with a 1m:49.815 while Hamilton would set a quick time on the soft tyre to be quickest with a 1m:49.782. The track would empty with twenty minutes of the session completed.

There would be a Virtual Safety car period as a result of an issue with the Renault of Palmer who had stopped out on the track. With the restart Raikkonen would move into second with a 1m;49.815 running on the supersoft tyre. Butt his would become third as Ricciardo went quickest with a 1m:49.133. Verstappen would go second but Perez would go quickest with a 1m:49.100 but he was on the supersoft tyre. Rosberg would move into third but was on the soft tyre. With fifty five minutes remaining Valtteri and Felipe were eighth and tenth in the times. Hulkenberg would go quickest with a 1m:48.657 seeing Perez now second followed by Ricciardo, Rosberg, Verstappen, Hamilton, Raikkonen, Valtteri, and Ocon. But more drivers were now running on the supersoft tyre with Kvyat moving up to eighth.

On the supersoft tyre Vettel would go second with a 1m:49.023 with Button tenth and Valtteri eleventh. Hamilton was currently eighth but out on the medium tyre doing a longer run. Magnussen would move up to eleventh also on the supersoft tyre. Wehrlein would move up to eighth also on the supersoft tyre as Ricciardo also started a quick lap on this tyre and would finish with a 1m:48.341 to be quickest. With just under forty minutes remaining Verstappen would go quickest with a 1m:48.085. Of the top ten only Rosberg in sixth had yet to use the supersoft tyre. Both Williams drivers would drop well down the order being sixteenth and seventeenth with thirty minutes remaining with both cars in the pits. With twenty minutes remaining the order was Verstappen, Ricciardo, Hulkenberg, Vettel, Perez, Rosberg, Raikkonen, Grosjean, Button, and Gutierrez. There was a large variety in what the teams were running with all three types of tyres being used. As the session drew to a close both Williams drivers were competing longer runs on the soft tyre but both drivers were a long way down the field. With the end of the session they would remain in sixteenth and seventeenth, a disappointing result.

Valtteri Bottas:
With the start of the second Friday practice session Valtteri would take to the track running on the soft tyres. Valtteri would set a 1m:50.412 to be quickest with five minutes of the session run. Valtteri would pit after just three laps coming for some setup changes. Valtteri would drop to third behind Ricciardo. Images would show Valtteri out of his car with his mechanics working around his car, in what looked like a problem with his car. Valtteri had dropped to fourth with his car still its garage. He would quickly drop to tenth as other drivers set times on the supersoft tyre. This would become eighteenth as he still sat in his pit waiting for his car issues to be resolved. It was reported that Valtteri's issue was with an ECU failure. Valtteri would finally get back out running on new prototype soft tyres. He would fail to improve from nineteenth after his first lap but his next was a 1m:50.151 to be only sixteenth. Now it was Valtteri's turn to run on the supersoft tyre following Felipe back out. He would again pit still sixteenth. With fifteen minutes remaining Valtteri would return returning to the soft tyre.


Felipe Massa:
Felipe would again follow his team-mate out with the start of the session also on the soft tyres. Felipe would pit after one lap but would head straight back out. Felipe would go second with a time of 1m:51.313 to be behind Valtteri. Felipe would drop to ninth as others went quicker. Felipe would pit after six laps joining his team-mate. Felipe would return to the track again on the soft tyre but would pit after five laps. Felipe would drop to fifteenth as more drivers set supersoft tyres. Felipe would join those on the supersoft tyres coming back out but would only manage a 1m:50.147 to be fourteenth. This would become fifteenth as Felipe pitted having completed just three laps. He would drop down to sixteenth and then seventeenth to be behind his team-mate. Felipe would return to the track running on used supersoft tyres. Felipe would continue to run on the supersoft tyre but he would pit completing a pitstop returning on used soft tyres.

Pos  Driver         	Team		        Time     Laps
1   Max Verstappen 	Red Bull-Renault 	1m48.085s 27 
2   Daniel Ricciardo 	Red Bull-Renault 	1m48.341s 27 
3   Nico Hulkenberg 	Force India-Mercedes 	1m48.657s 30 
4   Sebastian 		Vettel Ferrari 		1m49.023s 27 
5   Sergio Perez 	Force India-Mercedes 	1m49.100s 27 
6   Nico Rosberg 	Mercedes 		1m49.161s 33 
7   Kimi Raikkonen 	Ferrari 		1m49.244s 30 
8   Romain Grosjean 	Haas-Ferrari 		1m49.419s 20 
9   Jenson Button 	McLaren-Honda 		1m49.419s 23 
10  Esteban Gutierrez 	Haas-Ferrari 		1m49.648s 23 
11  Pascal Wehrlein 	Manor-Mercedes 		1m49.716s 31 
12  Fernando Alonso 	McLaren-Honda 		1m49.772s 30 
13  Lewis Hamilton 	Mercedes 		1m49.782s 33 
14  Daniil Kvyat 	Toro Rosso-Ferrari 	1m49.916s 25 
15  Marcus Ericsson 	Sauber-Ferrari 		1m50.083s 27 
16  Valtteri Bottas 	Williams-Mercedes 	1m50.151s 19 
17  Felipe Massa 	Williams-Mercedes 	1m50.157s 29 
18  Carlos Sainz 	Toro Rosso-Ferrari 	1m50.194s 25 
19  Kevin Magnussen 	Renault 		1m50.375s 34 
20  Jolyon Palmer 	Renault 		1m50.562s 32 
21  Esteban Ocon 	Manor-Mercedes 		1m50.659s 25 
22  Felipe Nasr 	Sauber-Ferrari 		1m50.719s 24