Welcome to live coverage of free practice 2 from Silverstone ahead of Sunday's British Grand Prix.

We're back at 10am tomorrow for the final free practice from Silverstone, followed by qualifying at 1pm. Join us then...

Out comes the chequered flag, and this session comes to a close with Nico Rosberg on top.

Alonso uses a bit too much track and runs wide... no dramas but that was a slight error from the Spaniard.

There doesn't seem much chance of a major shake-up in the last few minutes - most cars lapping several seconds slower than in the early part of the session.

And Hamilton is now on lap 12 of his current outing. He's lapping in the 1:38-1:39 region, as is Nico Rosberg.

Vettel comes into the pits after a nine-lap stint. He is still P3 behind Rosberg and Mark Webber.

An indication of the lost track time for Massa - he did seven laps before his crash - most of the other drivers have done at least 20 laps with jean-Eric Vergne leading the way on 30 laps.

Both Mercedes cars are on long runs with a high fuel load. Hamilton is on lap seven of his current stint on hard tyres.

Sky have a link to Ross Brawn on the Mercedes pit wall. Brawn is being unsurisingly coy about his team's tyre wear - this is something they have struggled with this season.

Lots of teams honing their longer stints right now. Not too many stellar performances but plenty of cars ciruclating on hard tyres.

Plenty of laps being logged on the drying track (that rain seems to have held off) - everyone bar Massa has completed at least 13 laps.

P2 for Mark Webber - the news of his impeding departure from F1 does not seem to have taken the edge off his pace.

Webber is back on the track and improving quickly. This is good driving from the Australian.

Kimi Raikkonen finally comes out of the pits on hard tyres... he's way down the order at the moment.

Red Bull are working on Mark Webber's car and he has lost some track time today.

Medium tyres seem to be the consensus choice and they are whittling away at those lap times - Nico Rosberg now leads the way with a 1:32.248.

Max Chilton runs wide in his Marussia and uses the escape route.

And it's started to rain again! Just light drizzle at the moment but the sky doesn't look too clever.

Ricciardo tops the timesheets with a 1:33.550 - but the Mercedes of Rosberg and Hamilton are both within a tenth of a second.

Away go the yellow flags and we are ready to go racing again.