Monaco GP: Williams Martini continues to struggle in FP3
By Andrew Hooper
May 27 2017
The final practice session for the 2017 Monaco GP was not one where the Williams Martini team would come away with the result they were no doubt hoping for. Both drivers would finish well down the times with Felipe Massa only managing 14th while team-mate Lance Stroll was only 0.6 behind hs team-mate but this would see him 17th. Their lack of pace on the Monaco circuit is going to make qualifying a difficult session for both drivers.
Williams
Martini Monaco GP Saturday Practice
Team Summary:
With the start of the final hour long practice session for the 2017 Monaco
GP there would be a mix of tyres been used. Palmer would set a 1m:16.075
followed by Ericsson. Bottas would set a 1m:15.249 running on the ultra soft
tyre. Palmer would improve with a 1m:15.795 with Hulkenberg now second ahead
of his team-mate. Ocon would move up to second as Raikkonen went quickest
from Bottas, Perez, and Ocon. Hamilton was now fifth with a 1m:14.736.
Raikkonen had set a 1m:13.568 and Bottas a 1m:13.621. Raikkonen would lose
the rear going into the final corner and would almost come to a stop to
avoid hitting the barrier. Hamilton was now third with a 1m:14.065. Vettel
would move up to fourth followed by Perez and Ocon. With forty minutes
remaining Hamilton would go quickest but Raikkonen would go quicker with a
1m:13.013. then it would be Vettel setting the quickest time with a
1m:12.890.
With just under forty minutes remaining the order was Vettel, Raikkonen,
Hamilton, Bottas, Verstappen, Kvyat, Ocon, Perez, Vandoorne and Sainz tenth.
Verstappen would go third and Kvyat fifth both ahead of Bottas. Vandoorne
had moved up to eighth. With sixteen minutes of the session completed the
Williams drivers were sixteenth and seventeenth. A 1m:13.805 from Vandoorne
would see him seventh, followed by Ricciardo and Sainz. Button was now tenth
as Ricciardo went fifth to be behind his team-mate. With under thirty
minutes remaining the Williams drivers were well down the times. Verstappen
would set a 1m:12.940 to move up to second. Vettel was on a quicker using a
new set of ultra soft tyres. Raikkonen would go quickest with a 1m:12.875
but Vettel would set a 1m:12.558 making it a Ferrari 1-2.
Bottas would improve with a 1m:12.987 to be fourth behind Verstappen.
Hamilton would be fifth followed by Ricciardo and Kvyat. Vettel was on an
even quicker lap setting 1m:12.395. As the final ten minutes of the session
commenced the major event in the closing period of the session would be when
Ocon would put his car into the barrier at the exit to the Swimming pool,
see the Virtual Safety Car applied. The session would go green again with
just three minutes remaining. With the end of the session it would be Vettel
ahead of Raikkonen with Bottas third. For the Williams team a fourteenth and
seventeenth was far from the result they would have hoped for prior to
qualifying.
Felipe Massa:
Felipe would be first out in the session for Williams running on used soft
tyres. Felipe would pit after a single installation lap. With fifteen
minutes completed Felipe was still in his pit. Finally he would come out on
new ultra soft tyres. Felipe's first lap would see him behind Lance but he
would set a 1m:15.018 to now be fourteenth. He would drop to sixteenth but a
1m:14.764 would see him move to fourteenth. He would improve with a
1m:14.590 currently fifteenth. Felipe would pit after thirteenth laps
completed. Felipe would follow his team-mate out also on a new set of tyres
with fifteen minutes remaining. On his final run Felipe would only manage a
1m:14.072 seeing him fourteenth.
Lance Stroll:
Like his team-mate Lance would come out on used soft tyres for his
installation lap. Lance would change to a new set of ultra soft tyres and
would return to the track. Lance would set a 1m:23.525 on his first lap. His
next lap would see a 1m:16.478 followed by a 1m:15.941. Lance was currently
ninth behind Palmer. lance was putting in personal bests in sectors but was
not putting it all together. lance had dropped to fourteenth. A 1m:15.940
from Lance with nine laps completed. Lance would drop to fifteenth to be
ahead of Felipe. But his team-mate would move ahead while Lance would set a
1m:15.040 to be seventeenth. Lance would pit after a total of nineteen laps.
With sixteen minutes remaining Lance would come back out on a new set of
ultra soft tyres. Lance would set a 1m:14..675 on what was his qualifying
simulation. This would see him down in seventeenth.
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