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The opening
Friday practice for the 2010 Brazilian Grand Prix would start under fine and
dry conditions. But there was the threat of cloud and rain for the second
Friday practice. For the AT&T Williams team Brazil will give the team
another opportunity to see if they can move ahead of Force India in the
Constructors championship. Bridgestone had brought the medium and super-soft
compound tyres for this race. The drivers would start to come out of the pit
lane for their installation laps. Rubens would again have another helmet
colour design with the colours of the Brazilian flag dominate, as well as
using his 300 race driving overalls.
 Jerome D'Ambrosio was again driving for Virgin in this session as we had
both Williams cars out on the track as Buemi would set the first time with a
1m:27.979. The whole field had now come out with both Nico Hulkenberg and
Rubens Barrichello for Williams back in their pits. The only driver still on
the track was Sutil but he would also pit leaving the track empty. Glock was
first back out practicing a start as he exited the pit lane. Webber would do
the same as he left the pits. He was joined by team-mate Vettel. Webber
would pit while he also had Hamilton and Petrov take to the track. Vettel
would also pit as the Red Bull team continued to collect data. Glock would
also pit as Hamilton continued as we had both Glock and Schumacher left the
pits. Hamilton had pitted followed by Glock shortly after.
Button was next out also completing a practice start as he started his lap.
He would also pit before setting a time. The track was again empty but with
an hour and nine minutes remaining Hamilton would return, this time joined
by Rosberg. After a series of laps Hamilton would pit while Button would
return to the track. Buemi was back out and would set an improved time of
1m:21.025. Button had pitted as Klien and Petrov took to the track. Klien
was running in HRT for this weekend. With an hour remaining D'Ambrosio was
next out with Buemi pitting. Petrov would set a new quickest time with a
1m:20.059. Alguersuari was next out as Klien set a 1m:21.357 to be third.
Petrov would set a 1m:17.098 as Rubens got ready to go out. Rubens would get
into his car as Petrov set a 1m:15.574 and Klien improved with a 1m:18.680
to be second. Senna would head out as Alguersuari set
a 1m:17.781 to be second but Klien would move ahead with a 1m:17.346.
Petrov would improve with a 1m:15.063 to remain fastest. D'Ambrosio would
improve with a 1m:19.388 as Alguersuari set a 1m:16.179 to be second. Now
Petrov was in the 1m:14's with a 1m:14.659. Senna was now fifth as we had
the first of the Williams cars come out, Nico. Kobayashi was also out on the
track. Nico would set a 1m:17.255 to be in fourth. Petrov had pitted having
set a 1m:14.370. Alguersuari was second from Klien, Nico, Kobayashi, and
D'Ambrosio. Klien would pit as Nico would go fastest in the first sector. As
more drivers set times Heidfeld would move up to second from Nico,
1m:15.067, Alguersuari, Kobayashi. Massa was now sixth from Trulli and
Klien. Rubens had also come out and was now fastest with a 1m:14.152. Schumacher was up to third,
1m:14.576.Heidfeld was now fourth and Nico fifth, 1m:15.067.
Heidfeld would improve with a 1m:14.340 to be second. But it would be
Schumacher who would go fastest with a 1m:13.643. Rubens was now again
fastest with a 1m:13.546. Both McLaren drivers would still out of their cars
while Schumacher had pitted. Webber was now in third, 1m:14.113, followed by
Heidfeld, Kubica, Petrov, Nico, Kobayashi, Massa, and Sutil. Nico would pit
while at the front Kubica would go fastest with a 1m:13.462. Rubens would
also pit while Webber would improve with a 1m:13.583 but remained third.
Alonso was now up to seventh, 1m:14.246, followed by Sutil and Petrov. Massa
was now tenth and Nico eleventh.
It would now be Webber's time to go fastest with a 1m:13.168 as we now had
Hamilton and Vettel come out. Team-mate Webber had pitted as Rosberg move up
to fifth, 1m:13.742. Schumacher was fourth, 1m:13.643. Vettel was on a
longer nine lap run and would set a 1m:14.790 to be fourteenth but his next
lap would set him move up to sixth, 1m:13.996. Hamilton was now second with
a 1m:13.399, improving from fourteenth. Rubens was now fifth and Nico
fourteenth. Vettel was now third, 1m:13.441. Petrov and Nico were back out
followed by Rubens. Hamilton would go fastest with a 1m:13.138 but he would
be passed by Vettel with a 1m:12.946. Button has come out and was up to
eighth, 1m:14.001. With just under thirty minutes remaining Hamilton would
edge ahead of Vettel with a 1m:12.845 but he was quickly beaten by Vettel.
Vettel's time was a 1m:12.351 to be ahead by 0.494 seconds.
Hamilton would pit while both Webber and Kubica returned to the track.
Button was now fourth, 1m:13.267, while Rubens was now sixth. Nico had
improved to be eleventh, 1m:14.155, and had pitted. Vettel had found some
extra time setting a 1m:12.328. Button had pitted followed by Vettel.
Alguersuari would spin at Turn one but he was able to continue. Rubens had
pitted while we had Massa down in fifteenth. Team-mate Alonso was in twelfth
1.9 seconds off Vettel's pace. Schumacher and Rosberg were in seventh and
eighth. Webber had improved his time with a 1m:12.995 but remained third.
Kubica was fifth while Webber was on an improved lap moving up to second
with a 1m:12.810. Kubica would pit leaving only a handful of cars on the
track. Webber had also pitted while Nico would return to the track with fifteen minutes remaining. Alonso and Massa
continued out on the track but Massa would pit.
Nico was back out along with Hamilton. Button would join Hamilton followed
by Petrov. Rubens was sitting patiently in his car with ten minutes left in
the session. Vettel was back out now along with Rubens and Kobayashi. They
were joined by more drivers all looking to complete their final runs. Rubens
and Nico were in seventh and eleventh. The track was now very busy but
Petrov would again get it wrong crashing his car into the barrier after
spinning wildly across the tarmac run-off area. His car was craned away
while Petrov stood there wondering why he got it wrong. Nico had pitted but
was quickly back out. Klien was now the only driver in his pit. Webber was
down to a 1m:12.810 to be 0.482 behind Vettel.
Rubens was still seventh with a 1m:13.546. Third placed Hamilton had pitted
as the session came to a close. Sutil would improve to be ninth with a
1m:13.918 while the big news was Alonso pulling off the track coming to a
stop. Kobayashi would also stop after having a big spin at Ferradura with a
problem with his left rear tyre. Vettel would pit while the other drivers
would all come back to the grid to complete their practice starts. So at the
end of the session Vettel was still fastest from Webber, Hamilton, Button,
Rosberg, Rubens, Schumacher, Sutil, Heidfeld, Kobayashi and Nico in twelfth.
An encouraging performance from Rubens as the Williams team got down to
looking at the performance data in readiness for the second Friday session. |
