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The first of two
Friday practice sessions would see Williams F1 drivers Pastor Maldonado and
Bruno Senna finish in fifth and eleventh. Now it was the second session and
Pastor would come out very early joined by Bruno and several other drivers including Pic, Hulkenberg, and Perez. More drivers would come
out including both Torro Rosso's, and Di Resta. Both Caterham's would also
come out with both Williams cars on the soft tyre. Pirelli had brought the
soft and super soft tyres for this weekend. Both Red Bull cars were out on
the track, joined by Button, Massa, Raikkonen, Schumacher, and Glock. No
rain was expected during the session as Perez went fastest with a 1m:54.830.
Pastor was second and Bruno third. Hulkenberg would move into second with a
1m:55.800 with Rosberg now fourth and Bruno fifth. Vergne would go fastest
with a 1m:53.632 but both Di Resta and Ricciardo would go faster with Di
Resta setting a 1m:51.414.
Pastor would improve to be second with a 1m:51.710. All twenty four cars
were out on the track with Ricciardo now fourth, 1m:53.128. Vergne would
move up to third with a 1m:52.371 with team-mate Ricciardo fourth,
1m:52.553. Grosjean was up to third, 1m:52.062. Bruno had dropped to
seventeenth but was on a quicker lap. Button would go fastest with a
1m:50.837, from Di Resta with Webber now third. Pastor was now fourth with
Bruno now up to eighth with a lap time of 1m:52.384. Perez had pitted and
was now thirteenth. Webber would improve with a 1m:51.345 and now
second. Button would pit as Raikkonen moved into seventh. This would become
eighth when Schumacher moved up to third with a time of 1m:51.356. Alonso
was now fourth with a 1m:51.365 as Pastor went fastest in the final two
sectors to move into second with a 1m:50.872. Bruno had pitted and was now
eleventh, 1m:52.384.
Rosberg was now third with a 1m:51.190 while the second Ferrari of Massa was
twelfth, 1m:52.338. Hamilton would go quickest with a 1m:50.561 to be ahead
of Button by 0.276. Pastor had also now pitted as Webber improved with a
1m:50.893 still fourth. Alonso was fifth as large numbers of drivers pitted
after their first runs. Vettel would complain about having no front end
under braking. Vettel was currently sixteenth but he did not stay there for
long going fastest with a 1m:50.497. Hamilton would start another quick lap
going fastest in the first sector. The Williams team would get their cars
ready to return running on the super soft tyre. There were now only a few
cars on the track including Hamilton, Di Resta, Massa, and Perez. Bruno
would come back out with just under an hour and ten minutes remaining.
Pastor would also come back out as Hamilton went fastest with a 1m:50.074.
The track was getting busier as Hamilton pitted while Vergne also on the
super soft tyre would improve to be twelfth, 1m:52.009. Bruno was currently
sixteenth but his lap would see him bounce across the kerbs ruining his lap.
Pastor was still on the soft tyre while at the front Alonso was on an
improved lap moving up to third with a 1m:50.734. Button was now fourth and
Pastor fifth. Bruno's next lap would see him set a 1m:51.452 to be tenth. Hs
super soft tyres had given him an improvement of 0.9. Kobayashi would also
improve to move into tenth, 1m:51.450, using the super soft tyre. Both
Hamilton and Vettel were back in their pits.
Bruno was on a quicker lap but he would hit the wall going through the
second last corner. Trying to go through the next corner he would spin the
car stopping in the middle of the track at Turn twenty one. He would tell
his engineer that he had lost drive and would get out of his car walking
away. His car would be pushed away but it could not be moved away from the traffic. As a result of this the session
would be red flagged. The track would empty with fifty minutes remaining.
The session would be restarted with Petrov first out. He would be joined by
Vettel and Rosberg. Massa would also come out joined by Hamilton with
Hamilton on the super soft tyres. Vettel would continue to run on the soft tyre. Massa was on a quick lap while
Pastor would come back out. Massa would finish with a 1m:50.039 to be
fastest running on the super soft tyre.
Hamilton would go fastest in sector one and two ending his lap with a
1m:49.086. Vettel had improved but remained third. Hamilton was 0.953 faster
than Massa. This was with a small mistake by Hamilton at the last corner
running wide. Webber was on the super soft tyre as was Ricciardo. Webber
would go fastest with a 1m:48.964. Raikkonen would improve to be fourth,
1m:50.345. Pastor had dropped to be ninth but he was also on a quicker lap.
Schumacher on the super soft tyre would go fourth fastest with a 1m:50.263.
Pastor would improve to be seventh with a time of
1m:50.636. Alonso was now eighth from Ricciardo and Button. Hulkenberg was
now seventh with a 1m:50.586 running on the option tyre. Hamilton had pitted
while Di Resta set a 1m:49.300 to be third. Alonso was on a quicker lap with
Bruno now down in sixteenth. Alonso would complete his lap setting a
1m:48.896 to be fastest.
Button would go fastest in sector one as Webber pitted. Grosjean was now
sixth with a time of 1m:50.161. Hulkenberg would also improve to be sixth
with a 1m:49.339. Button would jump to the top of the times with a 1m:48.651
to be ahead of Alonso by 0.245. Di Resta had pitted with Pastor also coming in,
currently in twelfth. Most cars were in the pit lane with thirty minutes
remaining. Rosberg would set a 1m:49.790 to be seventh. Vettel was also out
on the track and would set a 1m:48.340 to be fastest by 0.311 over Button.
Vettel would pit as Hamilton came back out. Di Resta also came back out
followed by Webber. Pastor was back out currently in thirteenth. Drivers
were on high fuel runs with the track now busy again with twenty minutes
remaining. Raikkonen was the quickest on the high fuel runs.
We only had Grosjean, Ricciardo, Kobayashi, and De la Rosa in their pits.
Alonso would pit briefly as Grosjean also came out. Several teams were doing
back-to-back tyre comparisons with one driver on soft's and the other super
soft's. Pastor was also on a longer run as Webber pitted. Both Grosjean and
Rosberg would fly over the kerbs at the Turn ten chicane. Perez would nearly
go into the barrier at Turn four but he was able to stop the car and reverse
it back. Schumacher and Kovalainen would pit with just under eight minutes
remaining. With five minutes remaining Webber would come back out after the
Red Bull team made adjustments to his suspension. Raikkonen had pitted
earlier and with a few minutes remaining Vettel would pit. Vettel's stop
would be brief and would come back out as the session drew to a close. With
the end of the session it would be Vettel fastest from Button, Alonso,
Webber, Hamilton, Di Resta, Hulkenberg, Rosberg, Massa, and Grosjean in
tenth.
For the Williams team Pastor and Bruno would finish in thirteenth and
seventeenth. Bruno would say that it was a shame that his car hit the wall
but that it would be right for Saturday. The team would have a lot of work
to do as they try to sort out their setup. Losing Bruno for most of the
session certainly did not help the teams setup work. |
