Abu Dhabi GP: Massa 10th for Williams Martini in FP1

Team Summary:
For the 2015 Abu Dhabi GP Pirelli would supply the soft and super soft tyres. For the Williams Martini team having secured third place in the championship there was still the question as to whether Valtteri Bottas would finish fourth in the drivers championship. Both Williams drivers would complete their installation lap. Both cars were running without Martini logos in line with the restrictions in Abu Dhabi. The first time would come from Rosberg with a 1m:55.130 but he would improve with a 1m:44.626 with Hamilton second. Verstappen would go second with a 1m:48.412 followed by Ericsson and Hamilton. A 1m:45.949 from Hamilton to see him second. A 1n:44.102 from Rosberg with Perez now second with a 1m:45.822.

Hamilton would move up to second with a 1m:44.957 followed by Perez, Raikkonen, and Valtteri. Hulkenberg would move into third with the Williams drivers sixth and tenth. A 1m:43.996 from Hamilton would see him quickest with the Williams pair now sixth and seventh. Rosberg would move ahead of Hamilton with a 1m:44.102. Maldonado would go sixth seeing Valtteri and Felipe drop to seventh and eighth. Raikkonen was now third with both Williams cars back in the pits with the pair seventh and ninth. With the first thirty minutes completed the track would be empty as the teams finished using their initial set of tyres.

Present in the Williams pit was Frank Williams. With fifty minutes remaining Alonso was first back out moving up to eighth seeing Felipe drop to tenth behind Verstappen. Rosberg was back out on a quick lap going quickest in the first two sectors but failed to improve. With forty minutes remaining both Williams cars were in the pits with the track now quite busy. Ricciardo was now fifth with Valtteri and Felipe now tenth and thirteenth. Alonso was seventh with a 1m:45.865. Thirty minutes remaining and both Williams cars were still in their pits, currently twelfth and fifteenth. Hamilton was now quickest with a 1m:43.754. Both Williams drivers were getting ready to return to their cars. Both would return to the track and Felipe would move ahead of Valtteri with the pair tenth and twelfth. Valtteri would move up to eleventh. Vettel was now fifth as both Williams drivers continued their runs. With the end of the session Hamilton was quickest from Rosberg, Raikkonen, Kvyat, Vettel, Hulkenberg, Ricciardo, Perez, Maldonado, and Felipe tenth.

Felipe Massa:
Felipe would come out a few places behind his team-mate also out on his installation lap. Felipe would also only complete one installation lap. With fifteen minutes of the session completed Felipe would come back out and would set a 1m:53.827 to be eleventh. A quicker 1m:47.558 would see Felipe ninth then tenth. Felipe would improve with a 1m:46.669 to seventh right behind Valtteri. Felipe would also pit having dropped to ninth. Felipe would follow his team-mate out onto the track which only had a few cars on it. Felipe would set a 1m:45.433 to go tenth and ahead of his team-mate.

Valtteri Bottas:
First out for Williams would be Valtteri for his installation lap running on the soft tyre. Valtteri would pit after one lap. Valtteri would be first back out for his timed laps and his first time was a 1m:46.865 to be third. He would drop to fourth then sixth as other drivers went quicker. Valtteri would pit after having completed eight laps. With twenty minutes remaining Valtteri would return to what was a clear track looking to complete eight timed laps. Valtteri was currently eleventh with a time of 1m:45.734. With Felipe moving ahead Valtteri would drop to twelfth. Valtteri would improve with a 1m:45.603 to be eleventh. Valtteri would come into the pit lane as the session drew to a close but he was quickly back out.

Pos  Driver         	Team		        Gap      Laps
1  Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes		1m43.754s 27
2  Nico Rosberg		Mercedes		1m43.895s 31
3  Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari			1m44.500s 26
4  Daniil Kvyat		Red Bull-Renault	1m44.702s 23
5  Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari			1m44.742s 22
6  Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m44.751s 22
7  Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	1m44.893s 25
8  Sergio Perez		Force India-Mercedes	1m44.934s 27
9  Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Mercedes		1m45.314s 28
10 Felipe Massa		Williams-Mercedes	1m45.433s 19
11 Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1m45.603s 22
12 Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso-Renault	1m45.718s 32
13 Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda		1m45.773s 15
14 Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda		1m45.865s 20
15 Felipe Nasr		Sauber-Ferrari		1m46.115s 20
16 Carlos Sainz		Toro Rosso-Renault	1m46.220s 21
17 Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari		1m46.407s 28
18 Jolyon Palmer	Lotus-Mercedes		1m46.501s 8
19 Will Stevens		Marussia-Ferrari	1m48.836s 19
20 Roberto Merhi	Marussia-Ferrari	1m49.888s 20