The second Thursday practice session for the 2017 Monaco GP would be a difficult one for the Williams Martini team. The session would see Felipe Massa only manage 13th while team-mate Lance Stroll was 16th. It was a difficult session not only in terms of the lack of pace from the FW40 but it was also a session that would see Lance crash heavily damaging his car. No doubt this was not the way Lance would ahve wanted to end his day.
Williams
Martini Monaco GP Thursday 2nd Practice
Team Summary:
With the start of the second Thursday practice session the opening quickest
time would go to Grosjean but Raikkonen would go quicker with a 1m:15.704.
Magnussen and Grosjean would both go quicker with Magnussen's time been a
1m:14.796. The top three were all on the super soft as Vandoorne went
quickest with a 1m:14.642 running on the ultra soft tyre. There was a mix of
drivers on the super soft and ultra soft tyre as Kvyat went fastest with a
1m:14.031 on the ultra soft. Sainz was now quickest with a 1m:13.926 on the
ultra soft but Kvyat would go quicker with a 1m:13.758. Palmer would be told
to stop ending his session.
On there first laps both Williams drivers would set slow laps at the bottom
of the times. Both Mercedes cars were out on the super soft tyres. Kvyat
would improve with a 1m:13.331 to set the quickest time so far during the
Thursday. Verstappen was now third as Ericsson would hit the barrier at
Casino Square seeing him pit. Both Torro Rosso's would pit as Verstappen
went second and Hamilton fourth. Verstappen would improve his time,
1m:13.486, but would remain second. Both Williams drivers were on a longer
run on the ultra soft tyre. Bottas had moved up to fourth with Hamilton
fifth both on the super soft tyre. Ricciardo would move ahead of the
Mercedes going fourth but Vettel would take this spot running on the super
soft tyre. Ricciardo would again go fourth with Bottas and Hamilton sixth
and seventh. Ricciardo would now be quickest with a 1m:13.280 seeing Kvyat
now second.
With fifty five minutes remaining the Williams drivers were now twelfth and
thirteenth with Felipe leading Lance. Raikkonen would go third using the
ultra soft tyre with Vettel now fifth but his time was on the super soft
tyre. Sainz would move up to third, 1m:13.400, as Bottas set a 1m:13.908 to
be eighth. Raikkonen would come close to going quickest with a
1m:13.283. At the front Vettel would go quickest with a 1m:12.759 to be 0.5s
ahead of Ricciardo. Vettel would improve his lap time with a 1m:12.720. In
second Ricciardo would improve with a 1m:13.207. With the crash from Lance
the session would be red flagged. The Williams would be cleared by the crane
and after short delay the session would be restarted. Of the drivers it
would only be Raikkonen who was on a longer run on the super soft tyre all
the rest were using the ultra soft tyre. There was little change in the
order as drivers focused on longer runs.
The session
would end with Vettel quickest from Ricciardo, Raikkonen, Kvyat, Sainz,
Verstappen, Perez, Hamilton, Magnussen, and Bottas tenth. For Williams their
drivers would finish in thirteenth and sixteenth. The drivers would again be
allowed to do practice starts from the grid.
Felipe Massa:
Felipe would be first out for Williams again running on the ultra soft tyre.
Felipe's first lap was a slow one with a 1m:25.504. Felipe would improve to
set a 1m:15.082 to be eighth. He would drop to tenth but would find time
setting a 1m:14.580 to be seventh. He would drop to eighth and would pit
after a eleven lap run. This position would become ninth with Vandoorne
ahead of him. While in his pit he would drop to fourteenth and with just
over fifty minutes remaining he would return on a new set of ultra soft
tyres. Felipe would set a 1m:14.238 to now be eleventh. Again he would drop
down the order to be thirteenth. Felipe would gain places with a 1m:14.003
to now be eleventh. He would drop to twelfth behind Vandoorne. With the
restart of the session Felipe would return doing what looked like a longer
run. Fifteen minutes remaining and Felipe had completed seven laps on this
run. Felipe was still in thirteenth as the session came to an end.
Lance Stroll:
Lance would join his team-mate out on the track also on the super soft tyre.
Lance would set a 1m:28.018. Lance's next lap was a 1m:16.052 to be twelfth.
Lance would also drop down the order now fourteenth. Lance had improved his
lap time with a 1m:15.791 but remained fourteenth. He would set a 1m:15.399
to now be twelfth. Lance would drop to fifteenth but would move ahead one
place with a 1m:14.965. Lance would continue to lap on the ultra soft tyre
he would find further time setting a 1m:14.474 to now be eleventh but just
places behind his team-mate. Lance would pit after an eighteen laps run.
With forty eight minutes remaining Lance would return running on a new set
of ultra soft tyres. Lance was now only 1.1s off the quickest times.
Lance would say on his radio that he was lacking general grip. He was told
that it would come to him. He would drop to sixteenth to be behind Button.
Lance would crash his car up at Casino Square doing major damage to his car
with a damaged front wing and suspension. Lance lost the rear of his car
through Massenet and crashed into the barrier eventually stopping on the
approach to Casino. This was the end to his session.
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