Abu Dhabi GP: Little improvement for Williams Martini in FP2
By Andrew Hooper
November 24 2017
The second Friday practice session for the Williams Martini team saw little improvement from either driver with both finishing outside the top ten. Felipe Massa would finish in 11th and Lance Stroll 14th. It was still a productive session with both drivers able to complete longer runs on both the super and ultra soft tyre. Now it will come down to whether they can achieve any improvement overnight.
Williams
Martini Abu Dhabi GP Friday 2nd Practice
Team Summary:
The start of the second Friday practice session would see the majority of
drivers coming out on the super soft tyre. After the first runs it would be
Hamilton fastest with a 1m:38.912 followed by Bottas and Ricciardo. Vettel
was fourth followed by Raikkonen and Vandoorne. Verstappen was seventh
followed by Perez, Alonso, and Sainz tenth. Vandoorne was on the ultra soft
tyre but would spin near the last corner and would pit. Ricciardo was now
second with a 1m:39.346. With just over an hour remaining the Williams
drivers were eleventh and sixteenth. Bottas was now out on the ultra soft
tyre and would go quickest with a 1m:38.609. Hamilton was also out on this
tyre with many others following suit.
On the ultra soft tyre Hulkenberg would move up to fourth followed now by
Vandoorne and Vettel. Hamilton would go fastest with a 1m:37.877 to lead
Bottas by 0.149 from now Vettel who was in second. Vettel had been quickest
but Hamilton had moved ahead with Raikkonen now third. Verstappen was now in
sixth after a run on the ultra soft tyre. After their first ultra soft tyres
runs the Williams drivers were now in tenth and twelfth. Ricciardo would
improve with a 1m:38.180 to remain in third. Thirty eight minutes remaining
and the top ten was Hamilton, Vettel, Ricciardo, Raikkonen, Bottas,
Verstappen, Ocon, Hulkenberg, and Alonso tenth.
Perez would move up to seventh with Ocon now eighth followed by Hulkenberg
and Alonso in tenth. Drivers were on long runs with Hamilton on the ultra
soft tyre and Vettel the super soft. But Hamilton would move to the super
soft tyre for further longer runs. Both Williams drivers would continue to
lap the circuit while Lance would swap his front wing during his run with
just over ten minutes remaining in the session. The majority of the field
were on the super soft tyres for their longer runs. The session would come
to an end with no changes in terms of the order as the drivers used the
opportunity to do practice starts on the grid. Both Williams drivers would
finish outside the top ten with Felipe eleventh and Lance fourteenth.
Felipe Massa:
Felipe would be the last driver to set a time coming out on the super soft
tyre. He would set a slow 1m:48.354 after been hampered by a yellow flag
with Vandoorne's spun McLaren. Felipe would continue to run and would set a
1m:41.665 to be sixteenth. He would pit after a seven lap run. Felipe was
back out on the ultra soft tyre and would set a 1m:40.011 to now be ninth
dropping to tenth. A 1m:39.635 would see Felipe now ninth as he pitted after
a six lap run. He would drop to tenth to be behind Alonso. This would become
eleventh as Felipe returned still on used ultra soft tyres, most likely on a
longer run on this tyre. With twenty five minutes remaining Felipe had
completed thirteen laps in total on the ultra soft tyre. Felipe would pit
late in the session to change to used super soft tyres which he would run to
the finish of the session.
Lance Stroll:
Lance's first run would be on the ultra soft tyre and would see him set a
best of 1m:41.534 to be thirteenth with fifteen minutes of the session
completed. Lance would pit after a five lap run. For his second run Lance
would again come back out on a set of ultra soft tyres. Lance would seta
1m:40.864 to be eleventh but all those around him were still on the super
soft tyre. Lance was able to find pace setting a 1m:40.532 to now be ninth.
Lance would pit now in tenth. He would drop to twelfth while in his pit.
With just over forty five minutes remaining Lance would return again on a
new set of ultra soft tyres A 1m:40.329 from Lance but this would only see
him thirteenth having dropped behind Sainz. This would become fourteenth as
Lance sat in his pit. Lance would also come back out on used ultra soft
tyres. During his run Lance would pit to have his front wing swapped over
most likely with some back to back work. Lance would also practice coming
into the pit lane and then the exit which goes under the track. Lance would
continue on the ultra soft tyre to the end of the session.
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