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A troublesome day for Kimi, struggling with set-up and a few errors including a spin and a “completely done” front tyre. The Iceman also didn’t have a low-fuel run in the first session.
FP2 Times:
Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m25.722s 35
2. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m26.011s +0.289s 38
3. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m26.220s +0.498s 36
4. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m26.399s +0.677s 36
5. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m26.430s +0.708s 39
6. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m26.582s +0.860s 40
7. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m26.601s +0.879s 41
8. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m26.632s +0.910s 32
9. Sergio Perez McLaren-Mercedes 1m26.857s +1.135s 40
10. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m26.972s +1.250s 39
11. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m27.304s +1.582s 17
12. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1m27.375s +1.653s 36
13. Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 1m27.429s +1.707s 31
14. Nico Hulkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 1m27.491s +1.769s 40
15. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m27.608s +1.886s 38
16. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m27.720s +1.998s 23
17. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 1m27.949s +2.227s 34
18. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m28.431s +2.709s 30
19. Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 1m28.692s +2.970s 39
20. Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 1m28.799s +3.077s 32
21. Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 1m29.366s +3.644s 37
22. Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 1m30.164s +4.442s 27
Kimi Raikkonen – 17th/8th: “The car feels pretty okay now, but we can still make it better. We made quite a few changes in the morning as it didn’t feel so good then, but it’s much better now and we should be able to make more progress for tomorrow. The track is quite slippery, but that improves with time and the car gets better too.”
Romain Grosjean – 4th/3rd: “That was a good start to the weekend. The car feels good and we made progress through the day to make it better. It’s still a struggle to find grip here which can make things interesting as you find the limits, but the pace of our car relative to our rivals looks quite good. I’m hopeful of another solid day tomorrow which should give us another strong qualifying position if the evidence of today is anything to go by. We’ll do everything we can to take the fight to Red Bull.”
Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director: “It was a difficult morning for Kimi who wasn’t happy with the balance of his car so his engineers made a reasonable amount of changes to the set-up over lunch, meaning the car was much more to his liking in the afternoon. Romain was generally happy with his car and just made minor changes to the set-up to get it 100% to his liking. We completed a good number of laps on low and high fuel with both tyres and we’re looking in strong shape. The Red Bulls are unfortunately looking incredibly quick, but we’re leading the charge behind them.”
Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps
1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m26.683s 24
2. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m26.871s +0.188s 17
3. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m26.899s +0.216s 23
4. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m26.990s +0.307s 20
5. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m27.227s +0.544s 21
6. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m27.335s +0.652s 23
7. Sergio Perez McLaren-Mercedes 1m27.416s +0.733s 23
8. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m27.692s +1.009s 21
9. Nico Hulkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 1m27.770s +1.087s 19
10. Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 1m27.800s +1.117s 23
11. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m28.035s +1.352s 25
12. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m28.214s +1.531s 6
13. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m28.336s +1.653s 18
14. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m28.342s +1.659s 21
15. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1m28.468s +1.785s 20
16. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 1m28.538s +1.855s 18
17. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m28.730s +2.047s 18
18. James Calado Force India-Mercedes 1m29.197s +2.514s 22
19. Giedgo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 1m29.413s +2.730s 24
20. Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 1m29.560s +2.877s 20
21. Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 1m30.026s +3.343s 23
22. Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 1m30.471s +3.788s 17
On Twitter:
“OK, Kimi, we want to push the tyres” until they’re gone. Kimi, “Yeah, but I want to make 1 lap on the other tyre” Re:”Yeah, understood”
Raikkonen says the troublesome left front tyre is “completely done” on his car. #F1
Raikkonen spoils his lap as he goes wide in turn ten and has to fight to get the car back under control. #F1
Kimi Raikkonen loses the back of the Lotus at turn three and spins
Kimi Raikkonen has been fined €400 for pitlane speeding. Don’t think he will be too worried
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