BRITISH GP – FRIDAY PRACTICE RESULTS

PRACTICE TWO

The Ferrari duo of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel were front runners this Friday at Silverstone, come the end of the first two free practice sessions, which marked the start of the ninth round of the Formula 1 World Championship. Raikkonen was second this afternoon with a 1.34.502 on his qualifying simulation using the Medium tyres, just ahead of Vettel who did a 1.34.522, both men running the softer of the two compounds brought to England by Pirelli. Having been quickest this morning, Nico Rosberg was again fastest for Mercedes with a 1.34.155 [via ferrarif1.com]

FP2 Times:

1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m34.155s	–	34
2	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m34.502s	0.347s	29
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m34.522s	0.367s	27
4	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m34.621s	0.466s	23
5	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1m35.009s	0.854s	25
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m35.153s	0.998s	22
7	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m35.300s	1.145s	36
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m35.387s	1.232s	34
9	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m35.866s	1.711s	37
10	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m36.147s	1.992s	33
11	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m36.164s	2.009s	32
12	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m36.183s	2.028s	33
13	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m36.351s	2.196s	29
14	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	1m36.728s	2.573s	21
15	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	1m36.731s	2.576s	19
16	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m36.822s	2.667s	23
17	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1m37.196s	3.041s	16
18	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1m37.327s	3.172s	37
19	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	1m38.279s	4.124s	21
20	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m39.878s	5.723s	21

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PRACTICE ONE

The Ferraris were fourth and sixth fastest in the first free practice session at Silverstone, the historic home of the British Grand Prix. The Finn posted a 1.35.588, to end up behind the lead trio of the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg (1.34.274) his team-mate Lewis Hamilton (1.34.344,) and Max Verstappen in the Toro Rosso (1.35.530.) In the other SF15-T, Sebastian Vettel was sixth with a 1.35.739. Apart from the usual tyre programme, running two sets of Hard tyres each, the two Ferrari men shared the tasks of aerodynamic testing and set-up work [via ferrarif1.com]

FP1 Times:

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m34.274s	–	12
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m34.344s	0.070s	26
3	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m35.530s	1.256s	18
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m35.588s	1.314s	21
5	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m35.669s	1.395s	33
6	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m35.739s	1.465s	17
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m35.818s	1.544s	26
8	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1m35.876s	1.602s	22
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m36.157s	1.883s	28
10	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m36.469s	2.195s	23
11	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m36.855s	2.581s	20
12	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m36.889s	2.615s	26
13	Susie Wolff	Williams/Mercedes	1m37.242s	2.968s	19
14	Jolyon Palmer	Lotus/Mercedes	1m37.262s	2.988s	26
15	Raffaele Marciello	Sauber/Ferrari	1m37.372s	3.098s	17
16	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m38.080s	3.806s	8
17	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	1m38.222s	3.948s	12
18	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1m38.860s	4.586s	10
19	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	1m38.981s	4.707s	23
20	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m40.477s	6.203s	23

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QUOTES

From crash.net – Kimi: “It’s only practice. It looks good but who knows what happens over the weekend? It’s only Friday… We try to do the maximum in a practice as any Friday. Some days it goes a bit better and that depends on the circuit. It was not an easy day but I think we learned a bit. We still have to improve things and try to make it a bit more straightforward. On the hard tyre I had a hard time for whatever reason – if it’s just the one set or if it’s the hard tyre that is tricky here. But on the medium it seems to be pretty OK for one lap. We obviously we have work to do but it was a messy session because of the issues with the hard tyre.”

From f1i.com – Kimi: “I think we [Sebastian Vettel] are working well together and have a similar idea of things and what we want. Obviously that helps for the team and we can work in a normal way.”

From espn.co.uk – Raikkonen was then asked whether his strong finishes in both sessions was one for his critics, with his future at Ferrari still hanging in the balance, to which he replied: “No, it’s a normal Friday so I don’t know. I’ve answered your questions about next year maybe 20 times and it hasn’t yesterday or the day before.”

From ferrarif1.com – Kimi: “Today we tried to do the maximum in the practice and it looks good, but it’s only Friday. It was not an easy day, anyway we learned something. We still have to improve and try to make it a bit more straightforward. We have no idea what the others were doing in the long run, we were focused on our session. The medium compound seems to be pretty ok, while the hard one is more difficult. For some reason I struggled a bit with that, but I don’t know if it was down to that set in particular or if the compound itself is more tricky here.”

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OTHER STUFF

Raikkonen: “Very loose still on the rear and no grip. Something is not right.” #F1 #BritishGP

— F1 Fanatic Live (@f1fanaticlive) July 3, 2015

Working on Kimi’s car. He asked for a different setting (something on the antiroll bar) pic.twitter.com/NRmW8iU2jC — Gianlu D’Alessandro (@Gianlu_DAle) July 3, 2015

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