Indian GP: Senna in top ten after FP2
Bruno Senna
By Andrew Hooper
October 26 2012
Despite having to set out the opening Friday practice for the 2012 Indian GP Williams F1 driver Bruno Senna would finish in an encouraging tenth. Team-mate Pastor Maldonado was down the order in seventeenth.
| Indian GP Friday 2nd Practice |
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Haven seen Valtteri Bottas run
in the opening Friday practice session Bruno Senna would return for the
second session for the Williams F1 team. With the start of the session the
Williams pair of Bruno and Pastor Maldonado would take to track early with
Pastor out first. Both Williams drivers would start to set times very early
in the session with Pastor setting a 1m:31.240 to go fastest. Bruno was
third with a 1m:31.951. The early running would see Ricciardo go fastest
with a 1m:29.503 while Bruno would improve to move into second with a
1m:29.772. As more drivers set times Webber would go fastest with a
1m:28.847 as Bruno moves ahead of Ricciardo to be second, 1m:28.996. Button would be the next to go fastest with a 1m:28.548. But Vettel would take this spot with a 1m:28.064 with Webber now second. With fifteen minutes of the session Bruno had dropped to be sixth as Hamilton set the new benchmark time of 1m:27.762. But quickly Alonso would move ahead with a 1m:27.402 running on the hard tyre. Pastor was completing tyre runs in the afternoon session with both drivers pitting after their first runs. Bruno would return to the track, currently in eighth. Several drivers had already had off-track moments including Bruno, Massa, and Grosjean. Bruno would have a moment at Turn three but was able to continue. He would set a 1m:27.946 to be fourth. The first driver to switch to the option tyre would be Petrov with Bruno now fifth. Vettel was leading with a 1m:27.256 followed by Alonso, Raikkonen, and Hamilton. More drivers were trialling the soft tyre with Raikkonen setting a 1m:27.507. With fifty five minutes of the session run Alonso would go fastest with a 1m:26.964 running on the soft tyre. But Vettel would move past him with a 1m:26.921. Webber was able to set a 1m:26.339, having been stuck in his garage for a big part of the session, to be fastest but team-mate Vettel would improve with a 1m:26.221. With twenty minutes of the session remaining both Williams drivers were on longer runs and with the end of the session Bruno would finish in tenth with a 1m:27.738 while Pastor was down in seventeenth with a 1m:28.956. Pastor had been completing high fuel runs late in the session. An encouraging sign of pace from Bruno after having sat out the first session. |
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Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m26.221 35 2. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m26.339s 33 3. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m26.820s 34 4. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m27.022s 38 5. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m27.030s 40 6. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m27.131s 38 7. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m27.182s 24 8. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m27.233s 37 9. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m27.397s 36 10. Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1m27.738s 36 11. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m28.004s 32 12. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m28.178s 39 13. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m28.222s 37 14. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m28.239s 37 15. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m28.296s 23 16. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m28.455s 40 17. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m28.596s 38 18. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m29.167s 35 19. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1m29.320s 43 20. Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1m29.606s 22 21. Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1m30.950s 37 22. Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1m31.113s 35 23. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m31.372s 20 24. Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1m31.493s 31 |
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Indian GP: Senna in top ten after FP2
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 26/10/2012 13:13
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