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The second Friday practice for
the 2013 German Grand Prix would commence with a rush of drivers coming out
while for Williams F1 Valtteri Bottas would take to the track first followed
by team-mate Pastor Maldonado. It was still dry at the Nurburgring as the
drivers continued to leave the pit lane. The first time would be
from Chilton with a 1m:36.542. Grosjean would go fastest with a 1m:34.342
followed by Hulkenberg and Valtteri. Only three drivers had yet to come out
including both Red Bull's. Valtteri had dropped to fourth with a 1m:35.055
with pastor now fifth, 1m:35.534. Button would go fastest with a 1m:33.646
with Grosjean second and Gutierrez now third. Raikkonen would move ahead of
the McLaren with a 1m:33.537 while Vergne was now fourth.
Valtteri and Pastor had dropped to eighth and ninth. Hulkenberg was now
third with only Rosberg in his pit. Perez was now fourth followed by Alonso,
Ricciardo, Grosjean, Vergne, and Gutierrez. Hulkenberg was now fastest with
a 1m:33.519 but both Webber and Grosjean would go faster with Webber
quickest with a 1m:32.333. Grosjean was second followed by Sutil and Hulkenberg. Pastor and
Valtteri were now thirteenth and fourteenth. Now Rosberg was out on the
track as Hamilton moved into second with a 1m:32.749. Massa was now fourth,
1m:33.229, as both Lotus cars pitted. Webber was on a quicker lap setting a
1m:31.790 to be 0,9 ahead of Hamilton. All the drivers were on the medium
tyre at this stage as Perez moved up to seventh with a lap time of 1m:
33.304. Vettel would join Webber at the front with Vettel now second.
Pastor had now pitted as Hamilton moved in front of Vettel with a 1m:32.388.
Rosberg was now fourth, 1m:32.492, as Vettel improved with a 1m:32.154.
Valtteri had also pitted with Pastor and Valtteri now seventeenth and
eighteenth. Hamilton was still third but with an improved 1m:32.193. Webber
had pitted as Vettel set the fastest middle sector time. The track had now
become quite empty as drivers completed their six lap runs. Rosberg would
improve to be second with a 1m:32.024. Alonso was down in fifteenth as
Vettel pitted. Perez was sixth and Button tenth as the Mercedes cars
continued out on the track. Alonso would improve to be fifth with a time of
1m:32.526.
Both Vergne and Chilton had come out on the soft tyre with Chilton improving
to be nineteenth with a 1m:34.709. Other drivers on the track were
Ricciardo, Alonso and Massa, Sutil, Hulkenberg, and both Williams cars.
Webber was back out on softs along with Hulkenberg. Hulkenberg had improved
to be thirteenth as Vergne moved up to sixth with a 1m:32.590. Webber would go fastest in sectors one
and two. Ricciardo had improved to be fourth with a 1m:32.124. Webber would
complete his lap with a 1m:30.874 to be 1.1 seconds ahead of Rosberg.
Hulkenberg would also improve to be sixth with a 1m:32.495. Both Force India
cars were back out still on the medium tyres. Vergne's next lap would see him go fourth with a
1m:32.055. Webber would again go fastest in sectors one and two. Ricciardo
would also find time to go second with a 1m:31.855.
Webber would finish with a 1m:30.683 gaining two tenths over his previous
lap. We were thirty minutes into the session while Vettel and Rosberg were
out on the soft tyre. Vettel was currently sixth and Rosberg third.
Gutierrez was now tenth running on the soft tyre with Vettel now on a quick
lap going fastest in sector two. Hamilton was also out on the track as
Vettel went fastest with a 1m:30.416. Both of the Mercedes cars were on the
soft tyre and were on quicker laps. Both Williams had pitted after their
second runs as Rosberg moved into second with a 1m:30.651. Hamilton's lap
was a 1m:31.304 to be fourth. Vettel and Webber had both pitted as Van der
Gar moved up to seventeenth with a 1m:34.279. Sutil would improve with a
1m:32.060 to be seventh, despite having a big moment coming onto the main
straight running wide into the gravel.
Perez was now eighth with a 1m:32.086 as Valtteri returned to the track.
Pastor and Valtteri were now nineteenth and twentieth. Massa would improve
with a 1m:31.282 to be fourth but was passed by team-mate Alonso with a
1m:31.056. Both were running on the soft tyre. Valtteri was also out on the
soft tyre and his first lap would see him set a 1m:32.879 to be thirteenth.
Pastor was also back out running on the soft tyre. Both Red Bulls were also
back out on the soft tyre. Pastor's first lap with the soft was a 1m:32.880
to be fifteenth while Valtteri was fourteenth. Valtteri had pitted currently
in sixteenth. Webber was out on the medium tyre for a longer run. Grosjean
was now seventh with a 1m:31.087 while Di Resta went tenth with a
1m:31.797. Grosjean would improve on his next lap with a 1m:30.843. Vettel
was out on a longer run on the soft tyre still been fastest from Rosberg and
Webber.
Pastor had pitted but the track was still quite busy with thirty minutes
left in the session. The drop off for the soft tyre seemed quite a lot while
Vettel setting times in the 1m:39s after just nine laps. Pastor was back out
on the soft tyre while Rosberg was back out on used medium tyres. Valtteri
had also returned to the track with just over twenty minutes remaining but
he was on the medium tyre. Only Raikkonen was in his pit but he was joined
by Sutil and Vergne. Hamilton was currently tenth and would pit switching to
the medium tyres sending him back out. With fifteen minutes remaining the
track would see all drivers except Bianchi, who had finished for the day due
to illness. Several drivers were running on the medium tyre including both
Vettel and Alonso.
Pastor would pit to switch to the medium tyre with just under ten minutes
remaining. Webber was able to do twenty laps on the medium tyre with his
last lap the fastest showing the durability of the medium tyres. Valtteri
and Pastor were still down the order with Valtteri seventeenth and Pastor
eighteenth. Webber would finally pit swapping to the soft tyre. Raikkonen
would pit for medium tyres as the session drew to a close. He had complained
about graining on the soft tyres as Valtteri pitted. The session would come
to an end with Vettel still fastest from Rosberg, Webber, Grosjean,
Raikkonen, Alonso, Massa, Hamilton, Button, and Di Resta tenth. For the
Williams team they were in a disappointing seventeenth and eighteenth for
Valtteri and Bottas. The rest of the weekend was looking to be another
difficult one for all at Williams F1. |
