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After the
sunshine of Friday Saturday would see the rain fall at the Interlagos
circuit but it would only be light, as the cars took to the track for the final practice
session for the 2010 Brazilian Grand Prix. The track had been declared wet and as the cars came
round for their installation laps there would be plumes of spray coming off the cars. Nico
Hulkenberg would be the first of the AT&T Williams cars to take to the track
shortly after followed by team-mate Rubens Barrichello. The last driver to
come out was Schumacher with the majority of the drivers out on full wets.
Massa was trying the intermediate tyre on his lap as everyone returned to
the pits leaving the track empty.
With ten minutes of the hour long session completed Glock would be the only
driver out on the track. He would be joined by Heidfeld as Glock completed
his lap to set a time of 1m:25.972. Other drivers including Nico, Kubica,
Petrov, and Kovalainen had also left the pits. Glock would improve with a
1m:24.642 while Heidfeld set a slow 1m:31.815. Both Torro Rosso cars were
out on the track joined by Rubens, Kobayashi, Trulli, and Di Grassi.
Heidfeld would go fastest with a 1m:23.897 as Glock pitted. Nico would go
second with a 1m:24.026 followed by Glock, Kovalainen, and Petrov. Heidfeld
would improve with a 1m:23.293. We had yet to see either McLaren, Ferrari,
or Red Bull cars. Rubens had moved up to fourth, 1m:24.649, but he would
drop to sixth as Buemi went fastest with a 1m:23.171. On his next lap
Rubens would go to the top of the times with a 1m:22.612 but Nico, Petrov,
and Buemi would all go faster.
Nico was now fastest with a 1m:21.976 from Petrov and Buemi. Alguersuari was
in fifth as more drivers tried the intermediate tyre. Nico was on of them as
Hamilton left the pit lane also on the intermediate tyre. Rubens was on the
full wet tyre as Nico would improve with a 1m:21.277. Rubens was now third
with a 1m:22.219 as we now had both McLaren's, Ferrari's, and Red Bull cars
out. Massa was up to fifth with a 1m:22.399. Sutil was now in sixth as the
rain started to fall harder while Rubens would pit. Nico would go even
faster with a 1m:20.535 while Webber would move up to second followed by
Hamilton, Button, and Vettel in fifth. Schumacher was now sixth from Petrov
and Rubens.
Hamilton would improve to be second, 1m:20.688, as Nico pitted. Webber and
Alonso would both improve with Alonso going fastest with a 1m:20.200 and
Webber second with a 1m:20.337. Nico was still third from Hamilton, Button,
Vettel, Schumacher, Petrov, Rosberg, and Rubens in tenth. Alguersuari would
move up to sixth while Schumacher had moved up to fifth. Button was now
sixth as Webber pitted. Vettel was back out while Schumacher pitted. Rosberg
was now in eighth seeing Vettel drop to ninth. Alonso would improve with a
1m:19.791 to remain fastest while Hamilton would move up to second,
1m:19.912. Nico was now fourth while Buemi jumped up to fifth. This would
become sixth when Rosberg moved up to fourth, 1m:20.408. Vettel would find some time
moving up to seventh but Massa would take this spot. Nico had dropped to
sixth while Rubens was down in sixteenth and still in the pits.
Kubica, having not set a time, would put in a 1m:20.629 to be seventh. Massa
was now fastest with a 1m:19.735. Alonso and Hamilton had both pitted.
Vettel was now in fourth, 1m:20.11, while Buemi was now fifth. Nico was now
in eighth while Rubens had returned to the track. Webber was now sixth and
Rosberg seventh. Kubica was now in fifth, 1m:20.078, while Button was down
in thirteenth. Kobayashi was up to tenth, 1m:20.572, as Rubens was on an
improved lap while Buemi move dup to fifth, 1m:20.009. There was twenty
three minutes remaining as Vettel went fastest with a 1m:19.550 to be 0.235
ahead of Massa. Rubens had found time to improve to be twelfth, 1m:20.622.
Nico was out of his car and up on the pit wall taking to his engineer.
Vettel would pit while Rubens would find more time jumping from thirteenth
to seventh, 1m:20.320. Nico was now in tenth, 1m:20.535. At McLaren
Hamilton's rear wing was been changed so that the team could try a lower
downforce setup. Seventeenth placed Button was out on the track also coming
out on the intermediate tyre. There was now just five cars on the track with
seventeen minutes remaining. Schumacher was now in tenth, 1m:20.421, while
Button would move up to fifteenth. Button was able to improve to move up to
seventh, 1m:20.164. Rubens was now eighth and Nico twelfth. Kubica was back
out along with Heidfeld. But the track was still very quite as Button
pitted. Ten minutes remaining and Hamilton also came out joined by Buemi, Petrov, Glock, and Klien. Kubica
had pitted while Hamilton would improve to be second, 1m:19.536.
More drivers were starting to come out as the final four minutes commenced.
Both Williams cars were still in their pits along with the two Ferrari's and
Red Bull cars. Kubica was now in fourth, 1m:19.761, while Vettel returned to
the track. Kubica was now fastest with a 1m:19.191. Nico had now left the
pit lane but Rubens remained in the pits. Webber also remained in his pit as
the session came to an end. Nico was now in fourteenth and Rubens tenth. The
top ten was Kubica followed by Vettel, Hamilton, Massa, Alonso, Petrov,
Buemi, Rosberg, Button, and Rubens in tenth. It was somewhat odd as to why
the team waited so long to send Nico back out when he did not complete
another timed lap. The reason why Rubens did not come back out was that he
had a problem with his car that his mechanics were investigating. |