Korean GP: Williams drivers outside the top ten after FP2
Bruno Senna
By Andrew Hooper
October 12 2012
The second Friday practice session for the 2012 Korean GP would see both Williams F1 drivers outside the top ten with Bruno Senna 12th and Pastor Maldonado 18th. Not the result that the team was hoping for but they were confident that there is more pace to come from their cars.
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With Valtteri Bottas completing
testing for the Williams F1 team in the first Friday practice for the Korean
Grand Prix regular Bruno Senna would replace him for the second session.
With the start of the session both Bruno and Pastor Maldonado would head out
on the soft tyre, with both drivers aiming to use the super soft tyre later
in the session. Having not run in the first session Bruno would have to get
use to the Korean circuit. Hamilton would be first out in the session and
after ten minutes it would be Schumacher fastest, 1m:39.911, followed by
Alonso and Di Resta. But shortly after Vettel would go fastest with a time
of 1m:39.794, with team-mate Webber third behind Schumacher. For Bruno he
would spin at Turns 11/12 but he was able to get his car back onto the track
and would continue. As the session progressed Bruno would continue with the soft tyre and after forty minutes he would be eleventh with a time of 1m:40.464. After spending time in their pits talking to their engineers and with thirty minutes of the session remaining both Bruno and Pastor would take to the track using the super soft tyres. Pastor would try longer runs using this tyre and as the session drew to a close Bruno was in twelfth with a time of 1m:40.089 and Pastor eighteenth with a 1m:41.200. But with the end of the session their positions would remain the same with neither driver truly showing their potential. It was later confirmed that Pastor had an issue with his car that the team were looking into. With both Williams drivers outside the top ten there would be a lot of work to do overnight for the Williams team. But the team was confident that there was more pace to come from their cars. Fastest in the session was Vettel with a 1m:38.832 followed by Webber, Alonso, Button, Schumacher, Massa, Rosberg, Hamilton, Hulkenberg, and Raikkonen. |
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Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m38.832s 33 2. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m38.864s 33 3. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m39.160s 28 4. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m39.219s 29 5. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m39.330s 31 6. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m39.422s 30 7. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m39.584s 36 8. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m39.717s 25 9. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m39.739s 33 10. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m39.839s 26 11. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m39.957s 28 12. Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1m40.089s 32 13. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m40.112s 34 14. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m40.445s 28 15. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m40.745s 11 16. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m40.789s 31 17. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m40.997s 32 18. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m41.200s 33 19. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1m41.602s 23 20. Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1m42.596s 28 21. Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1m43.067s 21 23. Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1m43.636s 22 22. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m43.869s 36 24. Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1m44.533s 24 |
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Korean GP: Williams drivers outside the top ten after FP2
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 12/10/2012 08:55
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