German Practice Two: Williams drivers drop down times


Kazuki Nakajima
By Andrew Hooper
July 11 2009

The second practice sesssion for the 2009 German GP would see Kazuki Nakajima finish ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg in a sesssion that would again see rain affact the running. As the rain eased it would see the Williams drivers who had been near the front drop down the order as others improved to be ahead of them. But as Nico later stated they had changed their approach in the practice sesssions.

 
 German GP Friday 2nd Practice
 

With Webber setting the quickest time in the opening Friday practice session with a time of 1m:33.082s. For the AT&T Williams team they were looking to improve from their seventh and ninth with Nico Rosberg leading Kazuki
Nakajima. The second session would again be run under cloudy conditions with the threat of rain. Both Nico and Kazuki would come out early in the session looking to get some dry running in case it rains.

Kazuki would run wide at the final corner taking a short trip through the gravel without any damage. The rain would start to fall early in the session seeing the drivers return to their pits. But as the rain eased Nico would come out running on the harder dry tyres. On his first lap Nico would move into eighth with a time of 1m:38.793s.His next lap would see him improves to be second behind Vettel with a 1m:36.732s. Nico would find an improvement in time but remained in third position with a 1m:35.789s.

Kazuki was down in thirteenth but he would improve to be second place behind Kovalainen with 1m:34.958s. Nico would take second place from Kazuki with a lap of 1m:34.952. Kazuki would use a set of super-soft and he would improve to
be third with a time of 1m:33.001s. Webber was fastest with Trulli second, Kazuki third, Heidfeld fourth and Vettel down in fifth. Kazuki would set another time on for another lap on those super-soft tyres, 1m:32.872, keeping him
in third.

Button was now fastest with a time of 1m32.369s, with Webber second, Sutil third, Trulli fourth, Kazuki fifth and Heidfeld in sixth place. But Vettel would set a time of 1m:32.342 to go fastest. Nico was running with a set of soft tyres and was currently in twelfth. Hamilton would move to the top of the timesheet with a 1m:32.149s on the softer tyres. With the end of the session it was Hamilton who was fastest from Vettel in second. Button was third from Webber, Trulli, and Sutil in sixth place.

For the Williams team Kazuki would finish ahead his team-mate Nico with Kazuki ninth and Nico thirteenth..
  
Pos  Driver	  Team			     Time     Laps
 1.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:32.149  23
 2.  Vettel       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:32.331  31
 3.  Button       Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:32.369  32
 4.  Webber       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:32.480  28
 5.  Trulli       Toyota                (B)  1:32.511  32
 6.  Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:32.585  32
 7.  Barrichello  Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:32.664  26
 8.  Alonso       Renault               (B)  1:32.774  24
 9.  Nakajima     AT&T Williams-Toyota  (B)  1:32.872  32
10.  Piquet       Renault               (B)  1:32.992  29
11.  Heidfeld     BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:33.012  36
12.  Massa        Ferrari               (B)  1:33.052  34
13.  Rosberg      AT&T Williams-Toyota  (B)  1:33.128  34
14.  Kubica       BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:33.161  28
15.  Glock        Toyota                (B)  1:33.172  34
16.  Raikkonen    Ferrari               (B)  1:33.182  29
17.  Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:33.724  27
18.  Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:33.903  30
19.  Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:34.025  30
20.  Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:38.877  3