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Team Summary:
With the start of the opening Friday practice for the 2018 Singapore GP both
Williams drivers would come out early and after the opening series of runs
it would be Bottas who was quickest with a 1m:43.428, using the ultrasoft
tyre followed by Vettel, hypersoft, and Verstappen on the soft. The Williams
pair were seventh and eighth but both would drop down the order and even
with improved times would be 10th and 12th with twenty five minutes of the
session completed. At the front it was Bottas, 1m:42.170, followed by
Hamilton and Vettel. Verstappen was now fourth followed by Raikkonen,
Ricciardo, Hulkenberg, Perez, Sainz and Alonso tenth. With thirty minutes
completed the Williams drivers were 16th and 17th.
Hamilton had now gone quickest with a 1m:42.072 with Bottas second now
followed by Verstappen and Ricciardo. Ricciardo would be able to move ahead
of Hamilton with a time of 1m:41.814 while Perez was now fifth. The track
would empty as drivers returned to their pits to return the extra set of
Pirelli tyres. After their next runs the Williams drivers would be 13th and
14th. At the front the Ferrari drivers both using the hypersoft tyre would
go first and second with Vettel quickest with a 1m:39.997. The Williams
drivers were now 16th and 17th with just under thirty minutes remaining in
the session. Verstappen would move into second using the hypersoft tyre
followed by Raikkonen, Hamilton, Sainz, Bottas, Hulkenberg, Ericsson, and
Perez now 10th. Ricciardo would use the hypersoft tyre and would set a
1m:39.711 to be quickest with Vettel second. Now the Williams drivers were
18th and 19th but yet to try an hypersoft tyre run. Leclerc was now ninth
with twenty minutes of the session remaining.
Both Williams
drivers were back out with ten minutes remaining still on the ultrasoft tyre
and not looking like they would use the hypersoft. With the end of the
session the order would be Ricciardo from Verstappen, Vettel, Raikkonen,
Hulkenberg, Hamilton, Sainz, Bottas, Leclerc and Grosjean in tenth. Of the
top ten only the Mercedes drivers had yet to use the hypersoft tyre. As for
Williams they would finish in 18th and 19th having stuck to the ultrasoft
tyre for the whole session.
Lance Stroll:
Lance had also come out for his first run using the ultrasoft tyre and would
drop down to eighth behind his team-mate. But Lance would improve with a
time of 1m:47.699 but he would drop to be 11th. A 1m:46.889 would see Lance
improve but again he would drop down the order to be eleventh with twenty
minutes of the session completed. Early on in the session Lance had a spin
at Turn 2 but was able to continue. A 1m:45.887 would see Lance tenth but he
was currently thirteenth. Lance would also pit and would drop to 17th having
completed twelve laps. Lance would also return on a new set of ultrasoft
tyres. Lance woudl also improve with a 1m:43.849 to now be 13th. He would
drop down to be 16th having pitted after a seven lap run. Lance would again
return still running the used ultrasoft tyre. Again his car would be seen
with flow-viz on the rear wing. He would complete the session remaining in
18th.
Sergey
Sirotkin:
Sergey would take to the track running on the ultrasoft tyre and would
briefly be first on the times but he would drop down to seventh with a time
of 1m:47.961, one place ahead of his team-mate. Sergey would improve with a
time of 1m:46.231 to be seventh dropping to eighth. Sergey would continue a
long run on the ultrasoft tyre pitting after an eleven lap run and in the
pits would drop to 17th. This would become 18th. He would drop to the bottom
of the times to be behind the Sauber's. Sergey would return with a set of
ultrasoft tyres and would set a 1m:44.036 to now be 12th. This would become
14th one place behind his team-mate. Sergey would also drop down the times
to be 17th having pitted after a six lap run. Sergey's next run would be
with fifteen minutes remaining and he would again come out on used ultrasoft
tyre. Like his team-mate he would complete the session remaining in 19th. |
