Spanish GP: Difficult time for Williams Martini in FP2
By Andrew Hooper
May 13 2016
The second Friday practiice session for the 2016 Spanish GP would see both Williams Martini drivers have a difficult time with the pair only finishing in 11th and 16th. Valtteri Bottas would lead home his team-mate Felipe Massa. Both drivers would focus on what appeared to be longer runs on both the soft and medium tyre. For the Williams team there is a large amount of time that has to be found come Saturday''s practice and qualifying.
Williams
Martini Spanish GP Friday 2nd Practice
Team Summary:
The second Friday practice session would see Raikkonen set the quickest
early time with a 1m:26.525, running on the medium tyre. The first run from
Williams would see Valtteri Bottas second. Vettel would go quickest with a
1m:26.306 also on the medium tyre. The session would be stopped when Palmer
would suffer a tyre failure on the main straight leaving tyre debris that
needed to be removed. The session would restart with Raikkonen moving to the
top of the times with a 1m:24.176. Sainz was second followed by Hamilton and
Verstappen. For Williams Valtteri would go fourth after his soft tyre run.
Felipe was only thirteenth after his run on the soft tyre.
Ricciardo would move up to third after a soft tyre run. Vettel was now
second with a 1m:25.017 followed by Sainz and Ricciardo. Rosberg was out on
soft tyres and he would finish with a 1m:23.922 to go quickest, followed by
Raikkonen and Vettel. Hamilton was out on the soft tyre. For Williams
Valtteri and Felipe were in eleventh and fifteenth positions. Hamilton would
move up to third, 1m:24.641. Both Williams drivers were back out with both
pitting briefly having completed live pit stops. They would complete longer
runs on the soft tyre prior to pitting taking on medium tyres for their next
runs. Valtteri and Felipe were currently eleventh and sixteenth. With nine
minutes remaining and both Williams drivers had completed ten laps on the
medium tyre. Both drivers were lapping in the low 1m:30s which was
comparable with other drivers.
With the end of the session the top ten would be Rosberg from Raikkonen,
Hamilton, Vettel, Sainz, Ricciardo, Alonso, Verstappen, Perez, and
Hulkenberg. Valtteri would finish in eleventh and Felipe sixteenth. It was a
difficult day for the Williams team with both drivers dropping off the pace
with a large amount of time to be found overnight to get the Williams
drivers back into the top ten come Saturday.
Felipe Massa:
With ten minutes completed Felipe would come out for his first run also on
medium tyres. After the red flag Felipe was quick to return back out as he
had yet to set a time. It was reported that Felipe's delay in coming out was
due to changing his seat padding. His first lap time was a 1m:27.173 seeing
him currently ninth. Felipe would pit after his first run. He would drop to
eleventh then twelfth. Felipe would also come back out with just over an
hour remaining, also on the soft tyre. Felipe would run wide at Turn nine
while on his first run on the soft tyre. This would see him fail to improve
his time. But he would continue and would set a 1m:26.491 which was an
improvement but he was only thirteenth. He would pit having completed five
laps. With forty minutes remaining Felipe would return running on his used
set of soft tyres. Felipe would also complete a longer run on the soft tyres
also pitting to return on a set of medium tyres. Thirteenth would become
fifteenth as other drivers went faster. Felipe would finish in sixteenth
having completed sixteen laps on his medium tyre run.
Valtteri Bottas:
Valtteri would be first out for the Williams team again on the medium tyre.
Valtteri's first timed lap was good enough for second, 1m:26.924, having
gone fastest in the final sector. Valtteri would drop to seventh as others
went faster. This would become tenth as Valtteri returned this time on the
soft tyre. Valtteri was on a quicker lap and would finish with a 1m:25.708
to now be fourth. Valtteri would pit after having set his soft tyre time,
having completed just three laps. Valtteri had dropped to eighth with just
under fifty minutes remaining. This would become ninth with forty three
minutes remaining. Valtteri would also follow his team-mate out also on his
used set of soft tyres. Valtteri would complete a long run on the soft tyres
prior to pitting to take on a set of medium tyres. Having completed fifteen
laps Valtteri would pit with the end of the session.
Pos Driver Team Gap Laps
1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m23.922s 35
2 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 0.254s 31
3 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 0.719s 27
4 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1.095s 35
5 Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1.209s 39
6 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault 1.272s 37
7 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Honda 1.420s 31
8 Max Verstappen Red Bull-Renault 1.453s 31
9 Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 1.515s 32
10 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1.531s 35
11 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 1.786s 30
12 Jenson Button McLaren-Honda 1.971s 20
13 Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 1.977s 33
14 Kevin Magnussen Renault 2.322s 40
15 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2.453s 44
16 Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 2.569s 36
17 Jolyon Palmer Renault 2.848s 16
18 Pascal Wehrlein Manor-Mercedes 3.038s 40
19 Rio Haryanto Manor-Mercedes 3.330s 39
20 Felipe Nasr Sauber-Ferrari 3.890s 40
21 Esteban Gutierrez Haas-Ferrari 4.283s 9
22 Marcus Ericsson Sauber-Ferrari 4.579s 42
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