Spanish GP: Low key start to weekend for Williams in FP1

Team Summary:
Pirelli would have their medium and hard tyres available for the Williams team. Both drivers would complete their installation laps while Rosberg would set the first time with a 1m:31.039 with Hamilton second. Suzie would set the first time for Williams while Rosberg would set a 1m:28.284 to be quickest. But Vettel would lower the time with a 1m:28.141. Both Williams drivers would be running together as Hamilton set a 1m:27.509 to be quickest. A 1m:27,333 from Rosberg as drivers started to pit to return their extra set of Pirelli's. Both Williams drivers had completed eight laps.

Felipe and Suzie were currently eighth and seventeenth. With just over thirty minutes remaining neither of the Williams drivers had returned to the track. Hamilton would go quickest with a 1m:26.898 with Rosberg second from Vettel. Rosberg would set a 1m:26.828 to be quickest as both Williams drivers got into their cars for their next runs. On their next runs Suzie would move to tenth while Felipe was eighth. Both drivers were setting times in the high 1m:29s. With the end of the session neither driver would improve on their times with Felipe 2.0 seconds off the pace of the quickest times. Suzie was 2.8 seconds off the pace with the end of the session. Felipe had complete twelve laps and Suzie fifteen.

Felipe Massa:
Felipe would be first out for his installation lap running on the hard tyre. He would complete two laps prior to pitting. Felipe would return to the track for his first timed runs. His first time was a 1m:30.428 to be seventh. He would drop to ninth but he would lower his time with a 1m:29.839 to be seventh then eighth. Felipe would pit second in the speed trap with a 329.3kph. Felipe would also get out of his car going over to the pit wall taking to his engineer Dave Robson. Felipe would drop to tenth. Felipe would follow Suzie out for his next run. Felipe would set a 1m:28.831 to be eighth. Felipe would have a big oversteer moment on one of his laps.

Suzie Wolff:
Suzie would replace Valtteri Bottas for the first Friday practice in Spain. Suzie would take to the track also on the hard tyre pitting after one lap. With the extra set of hard tyres for the first half hour Suzie would return told that she would do five timed laps. here first time was a 1m:33.029 to be currently fourth. She would improve with a 1m:31.374 to be seventh. AS the times dropped Suzie would drop to thirteenth. A 1m:31.333 would see her currently seventeenth. She would pit with an hour remaining in the session. Suzie was fourth quickest in the speeds with a 327.4kph. Suzie would get out of her car waiting to see conditions improve taking to her engineer Jonathan Eddolls.

Suzie would return to the track with twenty minutes remaining in the session. A 1m:30.543 would not see any improvement remaining seventeenth. But on her next lap she would set a 1m:29.708 to be tenth. She would drop to fourteenth as she pitted briefly returning to the track pitting just before the end of the session.

Pos  Driver         	Team		        Time     Laps
1  Nico Rosberg	   	Mercedes		1m26.828s 28
2  Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes		1m26.898s 27
3  Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari			1m27.806s 21
4  Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari			1m27.832s 16
5  Carlos Sainz		Toro Rosso/Renault	1m28.132s 27
6  Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m28.529s 23
7  Daniil Kvyat		Red Bull/Renault	1m28.785s 7
8  Felipe Massa		Williams/Mercedes	1m28.831s 21
9  Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m29.075s 9
10 Felipe Nasr		Sauber/Ferrari		1m29.140s 14
11 Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m29.409s 20
12 Raffaele Marciello	Sauber/Ferrari		1m29.630s 15
13 Jolyon Palmer	Lotus/Mercedes		1m29.676s 21
14 Susie Wolff		Williams/Mercedes	1m29.708s 22
15 Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda		1m29.813s 22
16 Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda		1m29.817s 22
17 Sergio Perez		Force India/Mercedes	1m30.096s 19
18 Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes		1m30.110s 7
19 Will Stevens		Marussia/Ferrari	1m32.471s 22
20 Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m32.647s 20