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Monaco GP: FP2 sees little improvement for Williams Martini


By Andrew Hooper
May 26 2016

The results of the second Thursday practice session for the 2016 Monaco GP would see the Williams Martini produce 14th and 16th positions on the time sheets. Valtteri Bottas would finish in 14th and Felipe Massa 16th. Both drivers would set their quickest times on the ultrasoft tyre and then would focus on longer runs on this tyre as well as the superosft. The Williams team would say that the day was one of preparing for the race and that perormance runs will come on Saturday. Having said that both drivers are still a considerable margin behind the times of the drivers at the front.

 
  Williams Martini Monaco GP Thursday 2nd Practice
 
Bottas
 

Team Summary:
As the drivers came out with the start of the second period of Thursday practice would see a mix of tyre types being used. The first time was a 1m:18.459 from Gutierrez. He would improve with a 1m:17.102 running on the ultrasoft tyre. After his first timed lap Valtteri would move into fourth while Felipe was waiting on his car to have the repairs completed. Rosberg would go quickest with a 1m:16.694 set on the supersoft tyre. Valtteri would drop down to eighth as others went quicker. Hamilton would go quickest with a 1m:15.489 running on the supersoft tyre with Sainz second. Rosberg was now third with Hulkenberg fourth.

Kvyat was now fourth running on the soft tyre with Alonso fifth. On the ultrasoft tyre Ricciardo would go quickest with a 1m:15.315, from Hamilton, Sainz, and Verstappen. A 1m:15.015 from Ricciardo with twenty minutes of the session completed. Haryanto would crash his car braking at the chicane seeing his car hit the barrier. The Virtual Safety car would be used seeing the majority of the field pitting. The track would be cleared and the session restarted. Verstappen would move into third while Valtteri's first ultrasoft tyre run would see him ninth. Felipe was down in seventeenth after his first timed lap.

Kvyat and Sainz were fourth and fifth with just under an hour remaining. Raikkonen would move up to sixth seeing Valtteri drop to tenth. Rosberg would move up to third with a 1m:15.537 running on the ultrasoft tyre. Hamilton was also out on the same tyre. With just under fifty minutes remaining Valtteri and Felipe were down in thirteenth and fourteenth. Ricciardo was back out on the ultrasoft tyre and would set a 1m:14.607 to extend his margin at the top. Vettel would spin at Mirabeau and would hit the barrier with his rear wing. As drivers worked on longer runs Magnussen would crash into the barriers at the final corner.

Raikkonen and Vettel were seventh and ninth while for Williams Valtteri and Felipe were fourteenth and sixteenth with fifteen minutes remaining. Both Williams drivers would continue long runs on the supersoft tyre as the session drew to a close. The session would end with both Williams drivers still well down the times. But the team would say that today was all about race setup and Saturday would be about performance.

Valtteri Bottas:
Valtteri would be first out for Williams running on new supersoft tyres. Valtteri would get caught behind one of the Manor cars seeing him having to slow to find space but again he would find himself stuck in traffic. Valtteri would set a 1m:18.572 to be fourth dropping to eighth. Valtteri would set a 1m:17.972 currently ninth. Valtteri would pit currently twelfth having completed eight laps. Having dropped to fifteenth Valtteri would come back out this time on the ultrasoft tyre. He would pit as a result of a crash out on the circuit. He would return still on the ultrasoft tyre. He would set a 1m:16.849 to be ninth. Valtteri would drop to eleventh as he continued his run on the supersoft tyre. He would pit after eight laps. he would drop to thirteenth having been in his pit for some time.

Valtteri would return to the track continuing his run on the ultrasoft tyre. Thirty minutes remaining and Valtteri had completed fifteen laps on his ultrasoft tyre. Having completed eighteen laps Valtteri would pit. He would come back out this time on the used supersoft tyres. Valtteri was still out having put twenty two laps on his supersoft tyre with five minutes remaining. With the end of the session Valtteri would complete twenty six laps on his supersoft tyre.

Felipe Massa:
Felipe would be seen walking around his car as his mechanics completed the repair work on his car after crashing in the first Thursday practice. Twenty minutes into the session and Felipe was yet to come out. Felipe would finally come out running on the supersoft tyre. His first timed lap was a 1m:18.040 to be seventeenth. Felipe would improve with a 1m:17.898 still on the supersoft tyre. He would pit currently fifteenth. He would change to the ultrasoft tyre returning to the track. Felipe would set a 1m:17.286 to be fourteenth. Felipe would pit having dropped to sixteenth. Felipe would return and like Valtteri would continue his run on the ultrasoft tyre. Like his team-mate Felipe was on a long run on the softer tyre. Felipe would pit taking on the supersoft tyre matching his team-mate. Felipe would complete eighteen laps on this set of tyres.

 
Massa
 

Pos  Driver         	Team		      Gap       Laps
1  Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	1m14.607s  40
2  Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes		1m15.213s  36
3  Nico Rosberg		Mercedes		1m15.506s  48
4  Max Verstappen	Red Bull-Renault	1m15.571s  42
5  Daniil Kvyat		Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m15.815s  53
6  Carlos Sainz		Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m15.981s  54
7  Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari			1m16.040s  38
8  Sergio Perez		Force India-Mercedes	1m16.120s  48
9  Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari			1m16.269s  40
10 Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda		1m16.325s  46
11 Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m16.487s  49
12 Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda		1m16.723s  43
13 Esteban Gutierrez	Haas-Ferrari		1m16.782s  40
14 Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1m16.849s  47
15 Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari		1m16.874s  23
16 Felipe Massa		Williams-Mercedes	1m17.286s  42
17 Kevin Magnussen	Renault			1m17.530s  29
18 Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari		1m17.562s  39
19 Jolyon Palmer	Renault			1m17.761s  24
20 Felipe Nasr		Sauber-Ferrari		1m17.999s  49
21 Rio Haryanto		Manor-Mercedes		1m18.647s  10
22 Pascal Wehrlein	Manor-Mercedes		1m18.814s  46
 
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