Lewis Hamilton beat Ferrari's Fernando Alonso as the Mercedes driver set the pace in practice at the Chinese GP.
Hamilton recouped from a suspension issue that slice short his first session to defeat Alonso by 0.141 seconds.
Driver of the Mercedes Nico Rosberg was on third, 0.411secs after Hamilton.
The Red Bulls of Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel were next, in front of the Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, Williams' Felipe Massa, , Mclaren's Jenson Button, and Romain Grosjean for Lotus.
Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat was tenth, from Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen's Mclaren.
Hamilton's quickest time came regardless of his griping about understeer - an absence of front hold - when he at long last made it out on to the track something like 20 minutes into the second session.
The Englishman likewise missed about the same measure of time at the end of the first session as Mercedes chose to guarantee they had enough time to alter the auto.
"It was a troublesome day however it’s OK," said Hamilton. "We got a few laps in P2. We've been dealing with the tires - there has been heaps of graining, however the pace doesn't look excessively awful.
"I missed a bit of practice in P1 which put me on the back foot during the current weekend. I went into the session not by any means content with the equalization of the auto, so we have some work to do."
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