Nico Rosberg finished ahead Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton and the two Ferraris in the second practice session at the Monaco Grand Prix. Rosberg was 0.318 seconds faster than Hamilton as the two Mercedes cars established themselves as favourites to claim pole position in qualifying on Saturday. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was third fastest 0.437seconds behind Rosberg and 0.082seconds ahead of team-mate Felipe Massa. Red Bull's Mark Webber was fifth, ahead of Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen.
"Generally I'm pleased with today," said Rosberg. "It was a good day, going in the right direction, felt comfortable in the car. The thing is of course we don't know how much fuel others had, we know we're in the hunt for a good result in qualifying and our long run pace is still a concern. We are starting to understand it a bit better but there are still some issues we haven't fully understood so that's still going to be a problem."
McLaren's Jenson Button was eighth, ahead of world champion Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull and the Force Indias of Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil. "It was OK," said Vettel. "Unfortunately, we had a big change and we lost quite a bit of time in the afternoon. Not completely ideal. We'd like to be a little bit more competitive in low-fuel configuration so we need to find some more lap time there. My short run on super-soft was very poor. We need to understand why I wasn't able to improve which you should be able to quite easily. After that we did a long run on super-soft and it seemed quite OK."
The good run in practice makes the two Mercedes drivers favourites for Sunday's race, here are the odds for a victory in the Monaco Grand Prix at Bet365:
Lewis Hamilton - 3/1
Nico Rosberg - 7/2
Fernando Alonso - 10/3
Sebastian Vettel - 4/1
Kimi Raikkonen - 8/1
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