CANADA GP – FRIDAY PRACTICE RESULTS – KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN SPACE

PRACTICE TWO

The action on the Montreal circuit in the second free practice session for the Canadian Grand Prix only lasted a little over 20 minutes, as a storm arrived exactly as predicted by the forecasters.

Sebastian Vettel managed 19 laps in the brief dry period, setting a time of 1.16.304, the second fastest of the session, in his SF15-T, fitted with the Supersoft compound. In the other Ferrari his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen finished right behind him in third spot with a 1.16.310, completing 20 laps running first on the softest compound before switching to a new set of Softs. 1.15.988 was the fastest time of the session, set by Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes. [via ferrari.com]

FP2 Times:

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m15.988s	–	22
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m16.304s	0.316s	19
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m16.310s	0.322s	20
4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m16.440s	0.452s	22
5	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m16.600s	0.612s	15
6	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m16.849s	0.861s	18
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	1m16.864s	0.876s	15
8	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m17.041s	1.053s	19
9	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1m17.092s	1.104s	10
10	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m17.111s	1.123s	16
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m17.120s	1.132s	15
12	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1m17.261s	1.273s	17
13	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m17.318s	1.330s	23
14	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m17.367s	1.379s	20
15	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	1m17.627s	1.639s	21
16	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m17.657s	1.669s	23
17	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m17.751s	1.763s	21
18	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1m18.135s	2.147s	20
19	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m19.531s	3.543s	15
20	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	1m19.734s	3.746s	13

PRACTICE ONE

Sebastian Vettel took his Ferrari to fifth fastest with a 1.17.905 and team-mate Kimi Raikkonen was twelfth in 1.18.439 at the end of the first free practice session for the Canadian Grand Prix, the seventh round of the Formula 1 World Championship. On the Montreal circuit named in memory of Gilles Villeneuve, on the Ile Notre Dame, the two Mercedes were quickest, Lewis Hamilton lapping in 1.16.212, ahead of Nico Rosberg (1.16.627.) Romain Grosjean was third for Lotus with a 1.17.721. Set-up work and long runs were on the day’s menu for the two Ferrari men, who did three runs using two sets of the Soft tyres. [via ferrari.com]

FP1 Times:

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m16.212s	–	34
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m16.627s	0.415s	38
3	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	1m17.721s	1.509s	35
4	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m17.871s	1.659s	34
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m17.905s	1.693s	25
6	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m17.985s	1.773s	28
7	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1m18.021s	1.809s	30
8	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m18.026s	1.814s	41
9	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	1m18.128s	1.916s	34
10	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m18.257s	2.045s	24
11	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m18.325s	2.113s	40
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m18.439s	2.227s	26
13	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m18.503s	2.291s	28
14	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m18.775s	2.563s	24
15	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1m18.786s	2.574s	25
16	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m18.948s	2.736s	30
17	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m19.065s	2.853s	23
18	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1m19.165s	2.953s	32
19	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m20.616s	4.404s	33
20	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	1m20.624s	4.412s	27

QUOTES

From espn.co.uk – Kimi: “It was all like we expected, absolutely fine. Today was a bit disturbed by weather but it was the same for everybody. I don’t think we got enough running done but I think we are more or less there. There’s still work to be done but it’s Friday so we have to wait and see. The weather is what it is and we expected rain. It meant we had to get certain things done this morning differently because of the rain in the afternoon. We had to shuffle the programme up a little bit.”

Ferrari’s lap times were much more favourable in FP2, especially when compared to Mercedes, but when asked whether a genuine challenge is possible on Sunday the Finn replied: “It’s hard to say, we lost a lot of running today because of the weather issues. We try to improve things and see where we are tomorrow and do the best we can.”

From ferrari.com – Kimi: “Today everything worked as we expected, we went on with our program trying as always to improve and we are quite happy with the way things worked. The weather was a bit tricky: the rain was expected in the afternoon, then we had to change a bit our program and decided certain things to be done in the morning. It’s hard to say where we are, because we did not get enough running, but it was all fine. It’s only Friday and we have to wait and see. There’s still a lot of work to be done to do well in qualifying, for sure here is easier compared to Monaco, but it will depend on many things, the weather conditions first of all. Tomorrow we’ll see where we are and then we’ll do the best over the weekend.”

From autosport.com – James Allison: “With Kimi, very small things can distract a driver in qualifying. They need absolute focus in those very important laps. We just have to make sure we remove all the tiny operation defects on our side to give him a clear path to focus on a clean lap. It’s all we can do.”

OTHER STUFF

Canadian GP 2015 – Kimi radio FP2 https://t.co/8uLRpBdKos confused Kimi at the end 😊😂

— Verena (@miezicat1) June 5, 2015

SPEED TRAP: The Ferraris were really showing their power before the rains came… #CanadianGP #BonjourF1 #FP2 pic.twitter.com/6OXQyZ5LAl — Formula 1 (@F1) June 5, 2015