Malaysian Grand Prix: Practice 1 Round Up


By Luke Marc Carlile-Stanton
April 6 2007

The First Pratice Session of the 2007 Malaysian Grand Prix produced a good result for the Toyota Formula 1 Team with Jarno Trulli finishing 7th and Ralf Schumacher 9th.

Ferrari's Felipe Massa finished the Session in First Position with a time of 1:34.972 ahead of the Mclaren-Mercedes duo of Reigning World Champion Fernando Alonso and his rookie sensation Team-Mate Lewis Hamilton.

Australian Grand Prix Winner and Title Favourite Kimi Raikkonen was 4th in the second Ferrari just ahead of Nico Rosberg in the Toyota powered Williams and Aussi Mark Webber in the Red Bull Renault.

Jarno was 7th ahead of Williams test driver Kazuki Nakajima who drove in place of Williams Race Driver Alex Wurz who sat out the First Session.

Ralf was 9th ahead of BMW-Sauber's Robert Kubica who rounded out the top 10 in this first session.

Reigning World Champion Team Renault paced themselves in the first session with Finnish Rookie Heikki Kovalainen 14th and his team mate Italian Giancarlo Fisichella one place behind in 15th.

Honda continued to struggle, with both race drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello in the bottom 4. Barrichello finishing 19th and Button 20th. Both were behind Super Aguri-Honda's Takuma Sato, but ahead of his team mate Anthony Davidson. But once again Super Aguri look the better of the Honda powered teams.

Sypker's Dutch Star Christijan Albers finished 22nd and bottom of the time sheets.

Friday, first free practice

Pos. Driver   Team Tires Time Laps
1 F. Massa Ferrari 1:34.972 17
2 F. Alonso McLaren 1:35.220 24
3 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:35.712 22
4 K. Räikkönen Ferrari 1:35.779 20
5 N. Rosberg Williams 1:36.308 21
6 M. Webber Red Bull 1:36.522 20
7 J. Trulli Toyota 1:36.597 25
8 K. Nakajima Williams 1:36.885 15
9 R. Schumacher Toyota 1:37.052 22
10 R. Kubica BMW 1:37.121 12
11 D. Coulthard Red Bull 1:37.484 7
12 S. Vettel BMW 1:37.837 39
13 V. Liuzzi Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:37.882 20
14 H. Kovalainen Renault 1:38.143 24
15 G. Fisichella Renault 1:38.300 26
16 A. Sutil Spyker F1 1:38.720 29
17 T. Sato Super Aguri 1:38.966 10
18 S. Speed Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:39.130 9
19 R. Barrichello Honda 1:39.234 21
20 J. Button Honda 1:39.331 17
21 A. Davidson Super Aguri 1:39.357 9
22 C. Albers Spyker F1 1:40.074 25

 

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