European GP: Maldonado fastest for Williams F1 in FP1

The opening Friday practice would see Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas take to the Valencia circuit. Bruno Senna would take over from Valtteri in the afternoon practice session.

Pastor would finish the session fastest with a time of 1m:40.890. He would set his time early in the session and that time would remain unbeaten until the end. His session would see him fifth after forty five minutes with a time of 1m:42.320. Minutes late in was fourth with a 1m:41.914.

With fifty minutes of the session completed Pastor would set his quickest time, a 1m:40.890. Vettel was second with a 1m:40.995, followed by Alonso, Hamilton, and Rosberg in fifth. After what was a lengthy run Pastor would pit seeing his mechanics start to make changes to his car. He would return to the track with just over ten minutes remaining. At this time Pastor was 0.094s ahead of Webber, with Button third, Vettel fourth, Alonso fifth, di Resta sixth and Schumacher in seventh.

Valtteri would finish the session in sixteenth with a time of 1m:42.299. Just before the thirty minute mark Valtteri would set a 1m:46.425 but his next lap would see a time of 1m:44.677 as he got to grips with the circuit. As the session progressed Valtteri would find further time to finally set his quickest time.

With the end of the session Pastor was fastest ahead of Vettel, Webber, Button, Alonso, Di Resta, Schumacher, Hamilton, Rosberg, and Raikkonen in tenth.

Pos  Driver         	 Team		      Time      Laps
 1.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Renault     1m40.890s  22
 2.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault     1m40.973s  21
 3.  Mark Webber         Red Bull-Renault     1m40.984s  19
 4.  Jenson Button       McLaren-Mercedes     1m40.994s  19
 5.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari              1m41.065s  26
 6.  Paul di Resta       Force India-Mercedes 1m41.105s  15
 7.  Michael Schumacher  Mercedes             1m41.117s  22
 8.  Lewis Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes     1m41.158s  18
 9.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes             1m41.182s  21
10.  Kimi Raikkonen      Lotus-Renault        1m41.620s  21
11.  Romain Grosjean     Lotus-Renault        1m41.784s  15
12.  Kamui Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari       1m41.838s  19
13.  Sergio Perez        Sauber-Ferrari       1m41.861s  16
14.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari              1m42.109s  20
15.  Jules Bianchi       Force India-Mercedes 1m42.175s  21
16.  Valtteri Bottas     Williams-Renault     1m42.299s  24
17.  Heikki Kovalainen   Caterham-Renault     1m42.442s  26
18.  Jean-Eric Vergne    Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1m42.758s  26
19.  Daniel Ricciardo    Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1m42.777s  28
20.  Vitaly Petrov       Caterham-Renault     1m43.209s  19
21.  Charles Pic         Marussia-Cosworth    1m44.173s  18
22.  Pedro de la Rosa    HRT-Cosworth         1m44.996s  15
23.  Narain Karthikeyan  HRT-Cosworth         1m45.120s  23
24.  Timo Glock          Marussia-Cosworth    1m45.338s  7