RAIN NO PAIN FOR MASSA

Felipe Massa topped the timesheets at Barcelona on Wednesday while rivals McLaren opted out of playing in the rain.

For the second successive day it was the rain that dominated the proceedings at the Spanish circuit, limiting the number of laps completed. In fact one team, McLaren, opted not to run at all.

But while McLaren sat on the sidelines, their rivals Ferrari did not with Felipe Massa proving to the quickest driver out on track on day two.

The Brazilian clocked a one minute 30.673-second lap to beat Red Bull's Mark Webber by 0.540 secs while Ferrari's test driver Luca Badoer finished up in third place, a further 0.075 adrift.

However, it wasn't a problem-free day for Massa, who slid off the track at Turn 12 near the end of the morning session. The Brazilian, though, managed to avoid damaging his F2008 and therefore was able to resume running short afterwards.

David Coulthard set the fourth best time ahead of Renault's Fernando Alonso. The double world champion was over a full second off the pace as he worked on bettering the R28's handling in the wet.

"Another disrupted day and we did not do many laps. It was too wet in the morning to do any running so we waited until the afternoon," he said.

"We did some laps and tried some things in the wet and it was a chance to get used to driving without traction control and to improve the behaviour of the car in these conditions. Tomorrow the forecast is better; we have been waiting for these conditions all week, so fingers crossed."

Nico Rosberg finished in sixth place ahead of the Toyota's of Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli. Glock, however, had his running cut short when he crashed during the afternoon session.

"That was only half a day's work for me today because the morning was too wet for us to gain anything from testing. In the afternoon we did some running in the wet conditions - first on heavy wet tyres, changing to standard wet tyres," he said.

"The track conditions changed quite a lot as the track dried out but not enough. It was difficult to draw conclusions but we found a similar picture to the dry which will help us define where we concentrate our work. We have a few more days of testing to work out how to move forward so we will push hard."

Times
01 F. Massa Ferrari 1:30.673 46 laps
02 M. Webber Red Bull 1:31.213 43 laps
03 L. Badoer Ferrari 1:31.288 33 laps
04 D. Coulthard Red Bull 1:31.654 44 laps
05 F. Alonso Renault 1:31.731 28 laps
06 N. Rosberg Williams 1:31.963 97 laps
07 T. Glock Toyota 1:32.407 33 laps
08 J. Trulli Toyota 1:32.571 47 laps
09 N. Hulkenberg Williams 1:33.102 13 laps
10 K. Nakajima Williams 0:00.000 1 lap
11 N. Piquet jr. Renault 0:00.000 1 lap