Practice got underway with Charles Pic setting the first lap time, a 1:29.495. However, that was quickly dropped as Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Rosberg and Sergio Perez all of whom had a turn in the P1 slot with the latter posting a 1:24.554.
Romain Grosjean ran into problems as the Frenchman came to a halt at Turn 10. He reported to his Lotus team that the engine has stalled with the team confirming that he had suffered a loss of fuel pressure.
The Lotus driver's car was cleared away by the marshals and returned to the pits on a flatbed truck giving Grosjean some hope that he could be back into the action before the end of the session.
A late-ish start for the leading teams meant Perez held onto the P1 slot through the halfway point which is when he was overhauled by Nico Rosberg using the soft option Pirelli tyres.
However, the drivers still out on the hard tyres were not able to challenge the Sauber driver's time, which had been set on the hard rubber. Sebastian Vettel was fourth, Fernando Alonso fifth and Lewis Hamilton sixth.
Perez was the next to head out on the soft tyres and immediately returned to the front with the benchmark time now down to a 1:23.742. Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne was second ahead of Rosberg.
With ten minutes to go in the session, Alonso moved up to second place, 0.665s down on Perez while Kimi Raikkonen took fourth.
However, it could have been a lot different with McLaren at the fore had Jenson Button, and more notably Lewis Hamilton, not run into traffic on their first laps on their soft tyres. That cost both drivers especially Hamilton who was quickest through the first two sectors before coming up to an HRT and Lotus.
The session ended with Kamui Kobayashi taking the P1 slot only to lose out to Pastor Maldonado while Vettel then putting in a late charge to lead the way with a 1:23.168.
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Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m23.168 13 2. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m23.336s + 0.168 19 3. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m23.350s + 0.182 19 4. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m23.578s + 0.410 16 5. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m23.742s + 0.574 22 6. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m23.807s + 0.639 15 7. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m23.833s + 0.665 14 8. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m23.909s + 0.741 13 9. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m23.936s + 0.768 16 10. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m24.070s + 0.902 23 11. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m24.179s + 1.011 16 12. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m24.323s + 1.155 17 13. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m24.331s + 1.163 15 14. Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1m24.409s + 1.241 18 15. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m24.599s + 1.431 15 16. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m24.778s + 1.610 15 17. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m24.825s + 1.657 17 18. Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1m25.911s + 2.743 20 19. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1m26.587s + 3.419 20 20. Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1m27.469s + 4.301 18 21. Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1m27.689s + 4.521 16 22. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m28.207s + 5.039 24 23. Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1m28.373s + 5.205 13 24. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault no time 2 All Timing Unofficial
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