Hungarian GP: Bottas 9th for Williams Martini in FP1

By Andrew Hooper
July 24 2015

The opening Friday practice session for the 2015 Hungarain GP would see Williams Martini drivers Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa finishin 9th and 14th. The session was red flagged once for a major crash involving Perez that saw his car up-side-down while the other was for debris on the track.

Williams Martini Hungarian GP Friday 1st Practice

Team Summary:
Friday practice would see the Williams team have only one of their drivers in the top ten with Valtteri Bottas finish down in ninth with a time of 1m:26.825. For team-mate Felipe Massa he would finish in fourteenth with a 1m:27.381. Quickest time of the session was a 1m:25.141 from Hamilton.

Felipe Massa:
After his first run Felipe would set a time in the 1m:28s and with the end of the first half an hour was down in eleventh. As the session progressed Felipe would drop down the times setting a 1m:28.047 to be only sixteenth. With the session drawing to a close Felipe would set a 1m:27.318 to be thirteenth but he would rop to fourteenth at the end of the session.

Valtteri Bottas:
For Valtteri the first half hour of the session would se him eighth with a time of 1m:27.737. But as the session progressed he would drop down the order to be fifteenth after the first hour having failed to improve on his earlier time. After a red flag stoped the session it would not be until just ten minutes before the end of the session that Valtteri would set a 1m:26.894 to move up to ninth. Valtteri would improve with a 1m:26.825 just prior to the end of the session.

Pos  Driver         	Team		      Gap      Laps
1  Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	      1m25.141s	18
2  Nico Rosberg		Mercedes	      0.109s	22
3  Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari		      0.671s	23
4  Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault      0.912s	20
5  Daniil Kvyat		Red Bull-Renault      0.929s	17
6  Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari		      1.254s	14
7  Carlos Sainz		Toro Rosso-Renault    1.586s	25
8  Sergio Perez		Force India-Mercedes  1.635s	14
9  Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes     1.684s	19
10 Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso-Renault    1.793s	27
11 Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	      2.131s	16
12 Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda	      2.167s	17
13 Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes  2.176s	11
14 Felipe Massa		Williams-Mercedes     2.240s	19
15 Felipe Nasr		Sauber-Ferrari	      2.268s	24
16 Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	      2.591s	23
17 Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Mercedes	      3.427s	9
18 Will Stevens		Marussia-Ferrari      4.552s	17
19 Fabio Leimer		Marussia-Ferrari      5.490s	18
20 Jolyon Palmer	Lotus-Mercedes	      -		4