Indian GP: Senna in top ten after FP2


Bruno Senna

By Andrew Hooper
October 26 2012

Despite having to set out the opening Friday practice for the 2012 Indian GP Williams F1 driver Bruno Senna would finish in an encouraging tenth. Team-mate Pastor Maldonado was down the order in seventeenth.

 
 Indian GP Friday 2nd Practice
 
Senna
 
Haven seen Valtteri Bottas run in the opening Friday practice session Bruno Senna would return for the second session for the Williams F1 team. With the start of the session the Williams pair of Bruno and Pastor Maldonado would take to track early with Pastor out first. Both Williams drivers would start to set times very early in the session with Pastor setting a 1m:31.240 to go fastest. Bruno was third with a 1m:31.951. The early running would see Ricciardo go fastest with a 1m:29.503 while Bruno would improve to move into second with a 1m:29.772. As more drivers set times Webber would go fastest with a 1m:28.847 as Bruno moves ahead of Ricciardo to be second, 1m:28.996.

Button would be the next to go fastest with a 1m:28.548. But Vettel would take this spot with a 1m:28.064 with Webber now second. With fifteen minutes of the session Bruno had dropped to be sixth as Hamilton set the new benchmark time of 1m:27.762. But quickly Alonso would move ahead with a 1m:27.402 running on the hard tyre. Pastor was completing tyre runs in the afternoon session with both drivers pitting after their first runs. Bruno would return to the track, currently in eighth. Several drivers had already had off-track moments including Bruno, Massa, and Grosjean. Bruno would have a moment at Turn three but was able to continue. He would set a 1m:27.946 to be fourth. The first driver to switch to the option tyre would be Petrov with Bruno now fifth. Vettel was leading with a 1m:27.256 followed by Alonso, Raikkonen, and Hamilton. More drivers were trialling the soft tyre with Raikkonen setting a 1m:27.507.

With fifty five minutes of the session run Alonso would go fastest with a 1m:26.964 running on the soft tyre. But Vettel would move past him with a 1m:26.921. Webber was able to set a 1m:26.339, having been stuck in his garage for a big part of the session, to be fastest but team-mate Vettel would improve with a 1m:26.221. With twenty minutes of the session remaining both Williams drivers were on longer runs and with the end of the session Bruno would finish in tenth with a 1m:27.738 while Pastor was down in seventeenth with a 1m:28.956. Pastor had been completing high fuel runs late in the session. An encouraging sign of pace from Bruno after having sat out the first session.
 
Maldonado
  
Pos  Driver         	 Team		       Time      Laps
 1.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault      1m26.221  35
 2.  Mark Webber         Red Bull-Renault      1m26.339s 33
 3.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari               1m26.820s 34
 4.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes              1m27.022s 38
 5.  Kimi Raikkonen      Lotus-Renault         1m27.030s 40
 6.  Lewis Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes      1m27.131s 38
 7.  Jenson Button       McLaren-Mercedes      1m27.182s 24
 8.  Nico Hulkenberg     Force India-Mercedes  1m27.233s 37
 9.  Romain Grosjean     Lotus-Renault         1m27.397s 36
10.  Bruno Senna         Williams-Renault      1m27.738s 36
11.  Paul di Resta       Force India-Mercedes  1m28.004s 32
12.  Sergio Perez        Sauber-Ferrari        1m28.178s 39
13.  Michael Schumacher  Mercedes              1m28.222s 37
14.  Daniel Ricciardo    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m28.239s 37
15.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari               1m28.296s 23
16.  Kamui Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari        1m28.455s 40
17.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Renault      1m28.596s 38
18.  Jean-Eric Vergne    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m29.167s 35
19.  Heikki Kovalainen   Caterham-Renault      1m29.320s 43
20.  Vitaly Petrov       Caterham-Renault      1m29.606s 22
21.  Pedro de la Rosa    HRT-Cosworth          1m30.950s 37
22.  Timo Glock          Marussia-Cosworth     1m31.113s 35
23.  Narain Karthikeyan  HRT-Cosworth          1m31.372s 20
24.  Charles Pic         Marussia-Cosworth     1m31.493s 31
 

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