lewis hamilton bounced back from a troubled first practice ahead of the malaysian grand prix to lead the way at the end of the day the reigning champion, who began the year in stunning fashion just under a fortnight ago in australia by claiming pole, fastest lap and victory, hit problems after just four installation laps in fp1 hamilton was ordered to pull his mercedes off the sepang international circuit after complaining of 'a click in the rear' of the car lewis hamilton was fastest in second practice ahead of sunday's malaysian  grand prix  world champion hamilton won the first race of the season in australia and is looking for back to back wins  1 lewis hamilton  mercedes 1:39790  2 kimi raikkonen ferrari 1:40163  3 nico rosberg mercedes 1:40218  4 daniil kvyat red bull renault 1:40346  5 valtteri bottas williams mercedes 1:40450  6 felipe massa williams mercedes 1:40560  7 sebastian vettel ferrari 1:40652  8 max verstappen  toro rosso   renault 1:41220  9 marcus ericsson sauber   ferrari 1:41261  10 daniel ricciardo red bull   renault 1:41799  11 pastor maldonado  lotus   mercedes 1:41877  12 felipe nasr sauber   ferrari 1:41988  13 sergio perezforce india   mercedes 1:42242  14 carlos sainz jr toro rosso   renault 1:42291  15 nico hulkenberg force india   mercedes 1:42330  16 fernando alonso mclaren 1:42506  17 jenson button  mclaren 1:42637  18 romain grosjean lotus   mercedes 1:42948  19 will stevens marussia   ferrari 1:45704  20 roberto merhi  marussia   ferrari 1:47229  hamilton hitches a lift back to the paddock after his car stopped during first practice  although hamilton stated his gears worked and he could have returned his car to the pits, he was told by his race engineer that 'we have no telemetry so we didn't want to risk the engine it's a race engine' hamilton's car was hoisted away from the scene and returned to the mercedes garage, where his mechanics furiously worked on a fault with the power unit inlet system mercifully for hamilton, with only four engines available to a driver over the course of the 19 grands prix, a complete engine change was not required hamilton did not return to the circuit until 38 minutes into fp2, at the end of a red flag session as rookie roberto merhi had beached his manor in the gravel hamilton returned to the circuit 38 minutes into the second practice session  hamilton had a new helmet design for the malaysian race but, under new rules, was not allowed to wear it  hamilton is given a lift back to the pits by a malaysian grand prix marshall after his car stopped on track  mercedes mechanics work on hamilton's car after he suffered an engine problem  fifty two minutes later hamilton emerged the only man to dip below one minute and 40 seconds for the lap, posting a time of 1:39790secs as in fp1, ferrari's kimi raikkonen emerged second quickest, with the finn 0373secs adrift of hamilton, with nico rosberg third quickest in his mercedes, 0428secs off the pace of his team mate red bull's daniil kvyat produced a strong showing to wind up fourth, with williams duo valtteri bottas and felipe massa fifth and sixth on the timesheet at 0660secs and 0770secs behind respectively four time champion sebastian vettel was down in seventh for ferrari, and the only other driver to finish within a second of hamilton fernando alonso, greets his former colleagues on the ferrari pit wall ahead of his second mclaren bow  the spaniard locks up his tyres as he takes to the circuit during practice for this week's race in malaysia  beyond that, the rest were some way adrift, with toro rosso's max verstappen 1430secs down, with sauber's marcus ericcson and daniel ricciardo in his red bull completing the top 10 as for ailing mclaren, fernando alonso completed 45 laps overall for the day, finishing 27secs behind hamilton in 16th position, with team mate jenson button 17th and 0131secs behind the spaniard for alonso, it was his first outing in the car since his pre season testing accident in which he sustained concussion, forcing him to miss the opening grand prix in melbourne after missing the race in australia, manor had something to cheer about as both will stevens and merhi completed 34 laps between them although the south yorkshire based team travelled to melbourne after being rescued from administration weeks earlier, they failed to turn a wheel in anger due to numerous issues but in what was effectively the team's first test session of the season, rookies stevens and merhi finally hit the track the 23 year old briton was 59secs behind hamilton and 15secs up on merhi, whose run into the gravel cost him considerable track time jenson button was 17th in the second practice session for the malaysian grand prix  button in the paddock with his wife jessica on friday 
lewis hamilton the day sepang hamilton second ferrari kimi raikkonen mercedes nico rosberg third fernando alonso jenson button 16th and 17th formula one
lewis hamilton missed much of the day, but still went fastest in sepang . hamilton did not post a time in the morning after engine troubles . but he returned to finish almost a third of a second faster than ferrari's kimi raikkonen with his mercedes team mate nico rosberg third . fernando alonso and jenson button were 16th and 17th respectively . click here for all the latest formula one news 