Nico eighth in second Friday Australian Practice


Melbourne Pit Lane
By Andrew Hooper
March 14 2008

After having failed to set a competitive time in the opening Friday practice for the 2008 Australian GP Nico Rosberg would finish eighth in second Friday practice session. He would have to run the car in the session with problems with the differential. Team-mate Nakajima, still learning the Albert Park track, would finish in sixteenth. Nico felt that we had yet to see the best of the FW30.

 
 Australian GP Friday 2nd Practice
 

After having to deal with technical problems, relating to their gearbox's, in the first Friday practice session for the 2008 Australian Grand Prix the AT&T Williams team would improve in the second session.

Nico had failed to set a time in the first session but would recover to finish in eighth place. Teammate Kazuki Nakajima could only manage sixteenth.

Nico would join several other drivers including Heidfeld, Adrian Sutil, Coulthard, Nakajima, Fisichella, Alonso and Takuma Sato in all going off the road at least once. They were able to continue without drama.

Even though he finished in eighth Nico was forced to complete the ninety minute session with a malfunctioning differential. The team preferred to opt for track time over a chance to effect repairs.
  
Pos  Driver        Team                      Time     Laps
 1.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:26.559  33
 2.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:27.473  27
 3.  Massa         Ferrari              (B)  1:27.640  29
 4.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:27.683  28
 5.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:28.037  26
 6.  Raikkonen     Ferrari              (B)  1:28.208  28
 7.  Trulli        Toyota               (B)  1:28.292  22
 8.  Rosberg       AT&T Williams-Toyota (B)  1:28.352  31
 9.  Fisichella    Force India-Ferrari  (B)  1:28.469  2
10.  Glock         Toyota               (B)  1:28.582  28
11.  Button        Honda                (B)  1:28.632  30
12.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber           (B)  1:28.731  32
13.  Alonso        Renault              (B)  1:28.779  37
14.  Barrichello   Honda                (B)  1:28.849  28
15.  Kubica        BMW Sauber           (B)  1:28.860  35
16.  Nakajima      AT&T Williams-Toyota (B)  1:29.077  33
17.  Sutil         Force India-Ferrari  (B)  1:29.161  32
18.  Vettel        Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:29.193  40
19.  Piquet        Renault              (B)  1:29.518  14
20.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:29.605  11
21.  Sato          Super Aguri-Honda    (B)  1:30.663  16
22.  Davidson      Super Aguri-Honda    (B)  1:31.527  8