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Despite some rain falling in the
lead up to the second Friday practice session it would still be dry and hot
as the Williams F1 team go their session underway. First out would be
Chilton for Marussia. First out for Williams was Pastor Maldonado running on
the hard tyre. Team-mate Valtteri Bottas would follow Pastor shortly after
as Chilton set a 1m:42.419. The track was now very busy with only the two
Ferrari's and Rosberg still in their pits. Button would go fastest with a
1m:36.164 but was passed by Perez with a 1m:35.866. Pastor's first lap was a
slow 1m:45.429 while Valtteri would set a 1m:36.775 to be third. He would
drop to fourth as Vergne went third. Ricciardo was now fifth while Raikkonen
was ninth, 1m:39.023.
Hamilton was on a quick lap going fastest in sector one. Pastor was seventh,
1m:38.106, but would drop to eighth as Grosjean moved up to fifth,
1m:36.679. Webber would go fastest with a 1m:34.664, with Perez still second
followed now by Sutil, Button, Vergne, Raikkonen, Hulkenberg, Grosjean,
Hamilton, and Valtteri now tenth. Pastor had dropped to sixteenth and would pit after five laps. Di
Resta was up to sixth, 1m:36.408, but this would be seventh as Alonso went
fastest with a 1m:34.317. Massa would join Alonso at the front going third
with a 1m:34.776, with Hamilton moving up to fourth, 1m:35.429. Valtteri had
joined Pastor in his garage while Sutil and Di Resta were sixth and seventh.
Di Resta had improved with a 1m:35.566 as the track started to clear with
drivers completing their first runs.
For Williams Valtteri and Pastor were in fifteenth and eighteenth. Vergne
would be the first to go out on the medium tyre and would use them to set a
1m:35.506 to be seventh. Only Rosberg and Ricciardo were also out on the
track. Both Williams drivers would return to the track as Rosberg improved
from tenth to fifth, 1m:35.271. Also on the medium tyre Ricciardo would set
a 1m:35.761 to be eleventh despite having found over a second on the softer
tyre. Webber was also out on the medium tyre joined by Perez. Both Williams
cars were still on the hard tyre for their second run. Webber would go
fastest in sector one and two using the medium tyre to good effect. He would
finish with a 1m:34.184 to be fastest. This was only half a sector than his
time set using the hard tyre.
Valtteri would pit as Alonso came out on the medium tyre. Vettel,
Hulkenberg, Gutierrez were also out on the medium tyre. Raikkonen continued
with the hard tyre as Vettel set a 1m:34.282 to be second. Alonso was now
third followed by Massa and Rosberg. Despite being quickest in sector one
Alonso would only set a 1m:34.310 to remain third with just under an hour
remaining. Valtteri and Pastor were now seventeenth and eighteenth while
Grosjean and Raikkonen were fourteenth and fifteenth. But both teams had yet
to run on the medium tyre. Rosberg would remain fifth despite having
improved with a 1m:34.666. Team-mate Hamilton was sixth with
a 1m:35.424. Gutierrez would suffer a left rear puncture after having made
contact with the front wing of Pic's Caterham at Turn eight.
Webber was back out on the same set of medium tyres as both Williams drivers
also took to the track. Both cars were now on the medium tyre as was
Raikkonen. Grosjean was on a quicker lap setting a 1m:34.631 on his medium
tyre. Pastor was also on a quicker lap as Sutil moved into seventh,
1m:34.932, and Pastor finished with a 1m:36.279 to only be sixteenth. Di Resta was now fourth, 1m:34.543,
while Raikkonen went fastest in sector one. Valtteri was now seventeenth
three tenths slower than Pastor as Raikkonen went fastest in sector two.
Raikkonen would finish with a 1m:34.154 to be fastest from Webber and Vettel
with Alonso fourth. Valtteri would pit followed by Pastor with just over forty minutes remaining
in the session. Alonso would return this time on the hard tyre starting a
longer run. Tenth placed Hamilton was on his first run on the medium tyre.
Both Williams drivers would return to the track after some setup changes
remaining on the medium tyre.
With just over thirty minutes remaining the track was very busy as the
Williams team focused on tyre work aiming to complete a combination of short
and long runs. Only Webber and Pic were still in their pits as the rest of
the field continued to complete longer high fuel runs. Vettel was setting
times in the 1m:42s with sixteen laps on his medium tyres. Vettel would pit
as Webber came back out. Alonso would also pit at the end of his hard tyre
run with times all under the 1m:40s barrier. Pastor was setting times in the
1m:42s on his medium tyre run, while Valtteri was matching his team-mate
with just over fifteen minutes remaining in the session. Both drivers had
completed twenty four laps so far in the session with both drivers fairly
well matched despite been down in sixteenth and seventeenth. Pastor would pit
briefly switching to a set of used hard tyres with ten minutes left in the
session.
Valtteri would pit having completed his session while Pastor would complete
a few more laps prior to pitting finishing his session. The session would
end with Raikkonen still fastest with a 1m:34.154 from Webber, Vettel,
Alonso, Di Resta, Massa, Grosjean, Rosberg, Sutil, and Hamilton tenth. Once
again the Williams team was not looking very fast but traditionally they did not go for outright
pace on Friday's. The big test will come in Saturday practice followed by
qualifying. |
