AUSTRIA GP – FRIDAY PRACTICE RESULTS

PRACTICE TWO

In the second free practice session for the Austrian Grand Prix, the team concentrated on long runs looking ahead to the race. The weather forecast for Sunday is currently very different to the conditions expected for qualifying and this means it will be very complicated to select the best set-up, but the team acquired a lot of useful data. Come the end of this afternoon’s 90 minute session, Sebastian Vettel was fastest with a 1.09.600. He stopped running 15 minutes before the end so the team could carry out some checks on his car. Behind the German came Nico Rosberg, who did a 1.09.611 in the Mercedes, while in the other SF15-T, Kimi Raikkonen was third with a 1.09.860. [via ferrari.com]

FP2 Times:

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m09.600s	–	28
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m09.611s	0.011s	50
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m09.860s	0.260s	41
4	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m09.914s	0.314s	44
5	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m10.137s	0.537s	49
6	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m10.160s	0.560s	49
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	1m10.267s	0.667s	38
8	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m10.356s	0.756s	48
9	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m10.495s	0.895s	39
10	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m10.585s	0.985s	46
11	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m10.631s	1.031s	50
12	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1m10.686s	1.086s	48
13	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1m10.744s	1.144s	40
14	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m10.746s	1.146s	34
15	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m11.011s	1.411s	42
16	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	1m11.517s	1.917s	17
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m11.676s	2.076s	38
18	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1m11.919s	2.319s	17
19	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	1m12.522s	2.922s	34
20	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m13.094s	3.494s	34

PRACTICE ONE

Mixed fortunes for the Scuderia Ferrari drivers in the first free practice session for the Austrian Grand Prix, eighth round of the World Championship here at the Red Bull Ring.

Kimi Raikkonen had a trouble-free time, finishing third fastest with a 1.11.028, while Sebastian Vettel was sidelined after just four laps, with a transmission problem. Fastest was Nico Rosberg, who posted a 1.10.401 ahead of his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton (1.10.709.) [via ferrari.com]

FP1 Times:

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m10.401s	–	36
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m10.709s	0.308s	28
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m11.028s	0.627s	22
4	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m11.452s	1.051s	26
5	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m11.633s	1.232s	28
6	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1m11.642s	1.241s	31
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m11.724s	1.323s	29
8	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m11.825s	1.424s	38
9	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m11.890s	1.489s	29
10	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m11.905s	1.504s	37
11	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m11.948s	1.547s	32
12	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m12.004s	1.603s	34
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m12.031s	1.630s	36
14	Jolyon Palmer	Lotus/Mercedes	1m12.050s	1.649s	27
15	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1m12.159s	1.758s	30
16	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1m12.920s	2.519s	30
17	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	1m13.272s	2.871s	10
18	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	1m13.937s	3.536s	29
19	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m15.459s	5.058s	11
20	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m15.684s	5.283s	4

QUOTES

From espn.co.uk – Kimi: “We did a normal Friday but then only did one lap on the super-soft. I would have preferred to run it on the long run but I destroyed it myself. We tried to run it on the other car but I don’t think they could run as long as they wanted, so it’s one of those things that didn’t pan out as we wanted. We did the soft long run and more or less everything is OK – still some things to improve and work on but not too bad. We’ll see on Sunday.”

From ferrarif1.com – Kimi: “It has been a good day of work, but it’s only Friday and it’s difficult to know where we are compared to our opponents: because of the layout of the track here all the cars are closer to each other. Unfortunately I could only run one lap with the Supersoft: I was going a bit fast and I ran wide, then I destroyed the right front tire by locking it. It was a pity, I would have preferred to do the long run with this compound. I did it with the Soft compound and even if I was a bit stuck in traffic it was more or less ok. Now we have to wait and see what happens tomorrow. We have to make sure that everything works well, then start from there and do a good job over the weekend.”

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Ferrari’s summary for Raikkonen: “Pace is good, very similar pace to Rosberg. Hamilton is on options [super-softs]. Fuel saving is perfect.”

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