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After earlier
rain the opening Friday practice for the 2012 Singapore Grand Prix would be
declared wet with the track damp in places. The drivers would come out for
their installation laps with there been a mixture of the intermediate and
full wet weather tyre been used. For the Williams F1 team both Pastor
Maldonado and Bruno would complete one lap prior to pitting. Perez would return to the track running
on the intermediate tyre but he would pit leaving the track empty. Next to
come back out were the Marussia's of Glock and Pic. Webber would also come
out while the weather reports had more rain on its way. Glock, Pic, and
Webber were all on intermediates as Pic pitted briefly. Perez was also back
out while Webber had pitted.
Glock would set a 2m:24.476 while Pic would pit again. Bruno was in his car
putting his helmet back on as Kobayashi and Ma, driving for HRT, would come
out. Glock would pit while shortly after Rosberg, Vettel, and Petrov would
take to the track. More drivers would start to come out with Vergne joining
the track. Kobayashi would pit as Hamilton left his pit. Petrov had pitted
to swap over to the intermediate tyre. Di Resta was next out joined by
Grosjean. Vergne would set a 2m:09.854 to go fastest. Hamilton was out on
the soft tyre as De la Rosa set a 2m:11.172. Vergne would improve with a
2m:04.866. The next group of drivers to come out included Ricciardo,
Hulkenberg, and Alonso while Hamilton pitted.
Grosjean was now second with a 2m:05.130 as Kobayashi also came back out.
Vettel would pit while at the front Grosjean would go fastest with a
2m:03.568. Hulkenberg would go fastest with a 2m:02.852 with Ricciardo
moving into second. Grosjean was now third with Alonso fourth, 2m:04.068.
Alonso was on a quick lap as Hulkenberg pitted. Alonso would complete his
lap setting a 2m:01.573 to go fastest. Hulkenberg would return after a brief
stop while Grosjean pitted. Kobayashi would go fastest with lap of
2m:01.030. We now had Raikkonen and both Caterham's out on
the track. Alonso and Hulkenberg would pit as Kobayashi set a 1m:58.550
showing that the dry tyre was quicker. For Williams Bruno would be first out
joined by Rosberg, Schumacher, Webber, and Hamilton. Bruno was on the soft
tyre while at the front we would have Rosberg, 1m:58.693, and Schumacher,
2m:01.055, second and third. Kobayashi would improve with a 1m:54.017.
Bruno's first lap would see him set a 2m:02.968.
Pastor was now also back out on the track also on the soft tyre. Bruno's
next lap would see him set a 1m:59.447. Schumacher had improved with a
1m:56.834 but remained third. Bruno would also improve to move up one spot
with a 1m:56.560 but Schumacher would take this spot back. Alonso was back
out currently fifth as Button moved up to sixth, 2m:01.890. Kobayashi had
pitted after his first run. Raikkonen was now up to fifth, 1m:59.726, as
Pastor started his first timed lap. Rosberg was on a quick lap as Button
moved up to fourth, 1m:55.493. Bruno was now fifth as Pastor finished his
lap setting a 1m:59.221 to be seventh just behind Perez. Rosberg would
finish his lap with a 1m:53.416 to be fastest. Hulkenberg was back up to
third but both Pastor and Perez would improve. Perez was now second,
1m:54.009, and Pastor fifth, 1m:54.522. Bruno had dropped to eighth followed
by Raikkonen, Vettel, Vergne, and Alonso twelfth. Quickly Bruno would drop
to twelfth as drivers improved their times.
Button was now second, 1m:53.862, followed by Perez, Kobayashi, Schumacher,
Hulkenberg, Pastor, Grosjean, Massa, Vergne, and Bruno now thirteenth. The
times continued to fall as Raikkonen went fastest with a 1m:53.268 with
Perez second and Hulkenberg now third, 1m:53.348. Massa was now up to
second, 1m:53.080, but quickly Perez would go fastest with a time of
1m:52.296. But Vettel would also improve to be fastest with a 1m:51.986 but
again his time would be beaten this time by Hulkenberg, 1m:51.864. Pastor
would also find time setting a 1m:51.576 to be fastest from Hulkenberg and
now Hamilton. Vettel and Perez had both pitted while Bruno was on a quicker
lap setting a 1m:52.629 to be tenth. Vettel would come back out with just
under thirty minutes remaining. Di Resta would join Hulkenberg near the
front going third with a 1m:51.963. Hulkenberg would improve with a
1m:51.858 but remained second.
But Webber would take second with a time of 1m:51.655 while team-mate Vettel
would go fastest with a 1m:51.367. Bruno had pitted as Hamilton moved ahead
of Vettel with a 1m:51.172. Pastor would also pit with the order now
Hamilton from Vettel, Pastor, Webber, Hulkenberg, Di Resta, Perez, Button,
Ricciardo, and Bruno tenth. The reports how had the rain holding off til
after the end of the session. Alonso was back out currently second slowest.
Schumacher was also out on the track currently in fourteenth but he would
improve to be twelfth, 1m:52.986. Bruno would come back out for his second run with the track fairly quite. Twenty
minutes remaining and Vettel would improve with a 1m:50.566 to again be
fastest. Alonso was now eighth with a 1m:52.291 but his next lap would see
him seventh, 1m:52.011. Pastor was back out on the track joined by
Hulkenberg. Vettel would pit while for Pastor he would lock up running off
into an escape area at Turn nine where he would reverse his car returning to
the track.
The track would again be very busy with ten minutes remaining. Alonso had
moved up to third with a 1m:51.525 while Webber was fifth from Hulkenberg,
Di Resta, Ricciardo, Perez, Button, and Bruno now eleventh. Vettel was back
out but Hamilton remained in his pit. As the final minutes counted down
Alonso would pit joining Hamilton. Alonso would quickly return as both
Ricciardo and Glock pitted. Ricciardo also returned quickly as Perez had a
big slide taking to the escape road at Turn nine. He was able to continue as
at the front Button would improve with a 1m:51.459. The session would end
with Pastor fifth and Bruno eleventh. Fastest was Vettel from Hamilton,
Button, Alonso, Pastor, Webber, Hulkenberg, Di Resta, Ricciardo, and Perez
tenth. Apart from one small off it was an uneventful session for the
Williams team as they worked through their schedule. Pastor would say at the
end of the session that his car felt good. |
