The rain had been promised, it arrived.. and kept coming. It didn't stop the drivers from trying to master the track, but with a Full Course Yellow, two Yellow Flags and two Red Flags, the track bit back.
Oliver Rowland was the talk of the pit lane again though, with a dominant performance in his Nissan that resulted in a solid 1m32.525s, two-thirds of a second ahead of Edoardo Mortara's Mahindra on 1m33.212s. Rowland's teammate Norman Nato came third with 1m33.488s, while NEOM McLaren's Taylor Barnard dispelled any lingering doubts from yesterday's crash to post a 1m33.566s that was good enough for fourth.
Mahindra did well in the wet, with Barnard only just pipping Nyck De Vries into fifth, who was himself closely followed by Envision Racing's Sebastien Buemi in sixth.
As it happened...
It was good to see Barnard back in the car after experiencing a heavy shunt in FP1, with the rookie handling the wet conditions well from the start. He'll be hoping the rain keeps coming, as unlike his calm FP2, there was plenty of chaos elsewhere from the beginning.
Turn 16 continued to be the bane of the drivers' laps, and DS PENSKE's Jean-Eric Vergne was the first to suffer a prang there in the second session. Nick Cassidy also fell foul of increasingly difficult conditions, while a roster of other drivers flirted with standing water and a tight track.
It was a battle of the Brits at the halfway stage, Rowland and Barnard posting solid laps amongst the yellow flags. CUPRA KIRO's David Beckmann lost his rear and drove into the slip lane, resulting in the session's first red flag.
Despite the slips and shunts, it was impressive how many of the drivers managed to post decent lap times and avoid the walls, something that would've been impossible with previous generations of car and Hankook's iON Race tyre.
Rowland and Nato swapped positions from yesterday's FP1, and, along with Barnard, showed the dominance of the Nissan powertrain.
The rain was still falling as FP2 finished with a red flag for Zane Maloney in the Lola Yamaha ABT. It remains to be seen how the cars will deal with a wet and wild quali, but Tokyo's Nissan faithful will be feeling bullish.
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