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After several
days of extreme temperatures and thunderstorms the AT&T Williams F1 team
would be presented with sunny conditions for the opening Friday practice for
the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix. Pirelli would be supplying the teams with the
soft and super soft tyres fro the weekend. But Pirelli would supply two
extra sets of development medium tyres for the teams to use of Friday. The
hour and a half session would get underway with Kovalainen first out onto
the track. More drivers would come out for their installation laps with the
drivers returning to their pits.
Both of the Williams drivers Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado would
take to the track as both Heidfeld and Rosberg would complete a second lap.
Rubens and Pastor would pit after just one lap, while Rosberg would complete
a third lap. The only driver yet to come out was Alguersuari as we now had
both Lotus cars return to the track. Trulli would pit followed by Kovalainen
leaving just Petrov alone on the track. Hamilton would return back out
followed by Rubens and Rosberg. The Williams team would be testing new parts
on their floor. Rubens would pit after carrying out some constant speed aero
tests. More drivers would start to come out as Ricciardo set the first time,
1m:26.560, in his Torro Rosso. Perez would set a 1m:29.513 as Alonso set a
1m:22.158 to go fastest.
Ricciardo would improve with a 1m:23.986 as Perez set a 1m:26.299.
Schumacher was now in second with a 1m:22.298. Alonso would find an
improvement setting a 1m:19.981. Schumacher would set a 1m:20.377 while
Alonso had pitted. The drivers were using the development tyres in the
opening thirty minutes of the session. Ricciardo would pit after lowering
his time with a 1m:21.040. Pastor was now out on the track joined by
Alguersuari. Kobayashi and Hamilton were out on the track as Liuzzi lowered
his time with a 1m:22.929 but remained fourth. Schumacher would find a huge
piece of time setting a 1m:18.821 to go fastest. Hamilton was third, 1m:20.357, followed by Ricciardo and
Alguersuari. Alguersuari would move up to second, 1m:19.877, while Pastor
was down in ninth, 1m:27.125.
Hamilton was now second, 1m:18.914, as we now had Webber and Massa out on
the track. Rubens was also out on the track as the track started to get
quite busy. Alguersuari would lower his time with a 1m:19.120 as Hamilton
went fastest with a 1m:18.395. Hulkenberg was eighth followed by Pastor.
Pastor would improve with a 1m:22.140 to move up to sixth. Webber would take
to the grass at Turn three moving up to fifth with a 1m:20.722. Ricciardo
was now sixth followed by Di Resta and Pastor. Rubens would move up to ninth
to be one place behind Pastor, 1m:21.664. Heidfeld was now seventh, 1m:21.000, as
Hulkenberg moved up to sixth, 1m:20.063. Pastor would again find time moving
up to fifth, 1m:19.770, but Rubens would take this spot with a 1m:19.654.
But Rosberg would take sixth seeing Rubens and Pastor seventh and eighth.
Di Resta would split the Williams pair moving into seventh. Rubens would pit
taking on a new front wing. Hamilton was still fastest from Schumacher,
Alguersuari, Hulkenberg, Webber, Rosberg, Rubens, Pastor, Ricciardo, and Di
Resta. Massa was now up to fourth, 1m:19.004, while team-mate Alonso would
go fastest with a 1m:18.326. But Rosberg and Webber would both move ahead
but Massa would set a 1m:17.707 to be fastest. For Hamilton his session had
hit problems with his car in his garage with his mechanics working on his
car. Rubens and Pastor were now down in thirteenth and fourteenth. Massa had
improved with a 1m:17.431. But Rubens would improve with a 1m:18.852 to move
up to ninth.
Button was now in fourth, 1m:18.266, moving up from eighth. Rubens would pit
joining Pastor with forty two minutes remaining. Vettel and Petrov had yet
to set times with Vettel coming out late after having an issue with his car.
Vettel was on the prime tyre as the track became fairly quite. Vettel was
now up to tenth, 1m:18.952. Schumacher and Webber had returned to the track
joined by Pastor. Alonso had come back out but his run would come to a stop
when the session was red flagged when he was to crash his car at the final
chicane. He would lock up his right front seeing his car go over the kerb
and across the track and into the barrier. Vettel's car would be removed and
the session would be re-started.
Both Williams cars were out again with twenty five minutes remaining.
Heidfeld would move up to fourth, 1m:18.172. The drivers were now running on
the prime tyre with Alonso setting a 1m:17.102 to go fastest. Heidfeld would
spin at Turn two but he was able to continue. Webber would pit while
Hamilton would be sent back out with the issues with his car not totally
resolved. He had lost the display on his steering wheel. Alonso would set a
1m:16.139 to be comfortably fastest. Rubens, running on the soft tyre, would
move up to fourth, 1m:17.492. Button would take this spot with a 1m:17.473 pushing
Rubens down to fifth. Pastor was now thirteenth and back in his pit. Button
would improve to be third with a 1m:16.961. Rubens had pitted joined by
Button.
Petrov had yet to set a time as Rosberg moved up to second with a 1m:16.239,
running on the soft tyre. Rosberg was on a quicker lap going fastest with a
1m:16.002. Alonso was back out as Hulkenberg moved up to eighth, 1m:18.394.
Rubens would be back out as Di Resta moved into eighth. Di Resta was now in
fifth after setting a 1m:17.294. Rubens was now in sixth with Hulkenberg now
seventh, 1m:17.549. Rosberg would go below 1m:16 with a 1m:15.591. Petrov
was now in twelfth with a 1m:18.506. Schumacher was now up to fifth,
1m:17.131. With five minutes remaining Rosberg was fastest from Alonso,
Massa, Button, Di Resta, Schumacher, Hulkenberg, Heidfeld, and Webber in
tenth. Schumacher would improve to be third with a lap of 1m:16.574.
Rosberg would pit while Rubens would improve to be sixth, 1m:16.990. Perez
was now eleventh while Button would lower his time with a 1m:16.676 but
remained fourth. Hamilton was now fifth, 1m:16.842, as the session came to
an end. Pastor had failed to come back out in the later stages of the
session. Pastor would finish the session in seventeenth while team-mate
Rubens was in an encouraging seventh, 1m:16.990. |
