Karun Chandhok made his debut today as a Lotus race driver. Although the Indian already drove on four Friday's for Lotus this season, it's the first time where he drove in the second session. He finished the day as 20th and did 33 laps. "That was good day of learning," said Chandhok afterwards. "The main area I've been looking at is the brakes – we use a different material here to my previous team so I think that's why I've maybe ended up with quite a lot of square tyres today! I had a few moments under braking, and a couple of lock-ups, but that's what today was about – getting used to the tyres and the brakes and easing myself into a place where I can start to push."

He says that he hopes to improve on today's result tomorrow: "Over the day I improved my time from this morning by over 1.5 seconds, so I'm pleased with that, and now I'll work with the engineers to find more time and keep pushing forwards tomorrow."