The second Friday practice session for the 2013 Australian GP would see the Williams F1 team focus on tyre evaluation with both Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas running both the medium and super soft tyre. Pastor would finish in 16th and Valtteri 18th. Early days for the Williams team!
Australian GP Friday 2nd
Practice
The second Friday practice
session for the 2013 Australian Grand Prix would commence with Raikkonen out
first. Valtteri Bottas would be first out for the Williams F1 team followed
by Pastor Maldonado. A 1m32.967 from Raikkonen with the track now very busy.
Raikkonen sets a 1m:29.012 still running on the medium tyre.
Valtteri's first lap was a 1m:37.777 as Hamilton went fastest with a
1m:27.882. Pastor would set a 1m:30.670 with the order changing rapidly with
only Webber and the two Ferrari's yet to come out. Valtteri would improve
with a 1m:30.306 to be tenth but he would quickly drop to twelfth. Vettel
was now fastest with a 1m:26.604 on the medium tyre.
Pastor would move into the 1m:29s with a 1m:29.741 to be tenth while
Valtteri had pitted. Pastor would follow him in to the pits. A 1m:26.274
from Vettel to increase his lead at the front. Rosberg was now second with
Webber third. The track was now fairly quite but both Ferrari's were out.
Webber was now second making it a Red Bull one-two. Hamilton was now second
but 0.5 seconds off Vettel's time. With twenty minutes of the session
completed Valtteri would come back out this time on the supersoft tyre.
Pastor would also come out following Valtteri in using the super soft tyre.
Valtteri would set a 1m:29.386 while Massa would move up to third. A
1m:28.852 from Pastor would see both drivers a second faster but still well
down the times being set on the medium tyre by other teams. With an hour
remaining Valtteri had pitted from his run on the softer tyre. Pastor would
also pit with the pair fourteenth and seventeenth.
Valtteri was back out for his next run back running on the medium tyre.
Pastor would also return to the track running again on the super soft tyre.
Vettel was still fastest from Alonso and Hamilton. On the super soft tyre
Webber would go fastest with a 1m:26.172. Vettel was now second with
Raikkonen third. Vettel was also on the super soft tyre and would have to
back off. Rosberg was now third on the super softs, 1m:26.322. Vettel would
go fastest with a 1m:25.908. Pastor and Valtteri would now sixteenth and
eighteenth. Both drivers were on longer runs with thirty minutes remaining
in the session. Pastor would pit first followed by Valtteri. After a short
break both Williams drivers would return to what was now a very busy track
with twenty minutes remaining.
The Williams team would explain that their focus is on tyres in this
session. For this run Valtteri was now on the super softs and Pastor the
medium tyre. Vettel was still leading from Webber, Rosberg, Raikkonen,
Grosjean, Alonso, Hamilton, Massa, Sutil, and Hulkenberg tenth. With under
ten minutes remaining both Williams drivers continued their longer runs with
Pastor having completed thirty three laps and Valtteri thirty five. With the
end of the session both Pastor and Valtteri had added a few laps to their
totals as they completed their programme for the Friday sessions. Pastor and
Valtteri would finish in sixteenth and eighteenth but it was very early days
for the Williams team.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m25.908 33
2. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m26.172s 31
3. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m26.322s 26
4. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m26.361s 37
5. Romain Grosjean Lotus Renault 1m26.680s 30
6. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m26.748s 35
7. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m26.772s 28
8. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m26.855s 32
9. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1m27.435s 34
10. Nico Hulkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 1m28.187s 34
11. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m28.294s 30
12. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m28.311s 37
13. Sergio Perez McLaren-Mercedes 1m28.566s 32
14. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m28.627s 31
15. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 1m28.772s 33
16. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m28.852s 36
17. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m28.968s 35
18. Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 1m29.386s 38
19. Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 1m29.696s 30
20. Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 1m30.165s 37
21. Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 1m30.600s 34
22. Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 1m32.450s 11
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