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With the
conditions remaining dry in the lead up to the second Friday practice
session the AT&T Williams F1 team would be looking to further evaluate the
updates that they had brought to Germany. With the start of the session it
would be Pastor Maldonado who would take to the track first for the AT&T
Williams F1 team. Team-mate Rubens Barrichello would also come out shortly
after. The first time would be set by Perez with a lap of 1m:42.634, but
quickly other drivers would go faster with Alguersuari, 1m:36.498, and
Kovalainen going faster. Pastor's first time was a 1m:45.249 to see him
ninth. The track was very busy with only a handful of cars in the pits.
Rubens had pitted after one lap while Pastor would improve to be third,
1m:38.227, but he would drop down to fifth as other drivers went faster.
Alonso was now fastest with a 1m:32.990, while Rubens had returned to the
track. Alguersuari was second from Kobayashi, Perez, and Rosberg. But
Hamilton and Vettel would move into second and third, while Heidfeld was now
fourth. Pastor had dropped to ninth while Rubens had yet to set
a time. Ricciardo would pull of the track with his engine smoking. Pastor
was now in eleventh while Rubens first time was a 1m:42.963 to see him
twentieth. For the Williams team this session would see further aero
comparisons as well as longer runs.
Vettel was now second with a 1m:33.951 while Sutil was up to fifth. This
would become sixth as Webber moved up to second with a 1m:33.642. Massa was
up to fourth while for the Williams team Pastor had pitted while Rubens was
twenty second. Rubens would be out on the prime tyre and would improve his
time with a 1m:37.728 to be thirteenth. Di Resta was now in ninth,
1m:36.514, while at the front Alonso, Webber, and Vettel had all pitted.
Rubens would pit with eighteen minutes of the session completed. Kobayashi
would jump up to
sixth, 1m:35.009, as we watched Sutil spin harmlessly at the chicane. Perez
would also improve to be eighth, 1m:35.370, running on the softer tyre as
Alonso returned to the track. Pastor would return to the track, running on
the prime tyre. Rubens and Pastor were now fourteenth and fifteenth with an
hour and five minutes remaining.
Petrov was now in fifth, 1m:34.265, running on the softer tyre followed by
Hamilton and Perez. Pastor would move ahead of Rubens, 1m:37.653, with
Pastor now fifteenth and Rubens sixteenth. Rubens had also left the pits as
Petrov improved to be fourth, 1m:33.956. Second placed Webber was also back
out joined by Vettel. Massa was back out on Pirelli's development soft tyre.
Rubens would improve his time with a 1m:37.386, seeing him now fifteenth.
Pastor had dropped to seventeenth. Massa was on a quick lap setting a
1m:32.772 to be fastest. Rubens had pitted again while Massa continued to
push going even faster with a 1m:32.466. Rubens was now sixteenth and Pastor
seventeenth. Pastor would return to the pits after a big lockup of the left
front tyre at the final chicane. This would see Pastor take to the grass and
return to the pits, joining Massa who had also pitted.
Fifty minutes of the session remaining and Massa was fastest from Alonso,
Webber, Vettel, Petrov, Hamilton, Kobayashi, Perez, Heidfeld, and Sutil in
tenth. Rubens would come back out followed by Alonso who was out on the
option tyre. Alguersuari would move up to seventh, 1m:34.487. Pastor had
joined Rubens out on the track. Rubens would have an off running across the
grass but he was able to continue around to the pits. Rubens was
on the prime tyre while Pastor was on the option tyre. Pastor was on an
improved lap finishing with a 1m:35.002 to now be tenth. At the front Alonso
had moved ahead of team-mate Massa to be fastest, 1m:31.879. Hamilton would
also improve, on the option tyre, moving up to third with a 1m:32.724.
Rubens was now seventeenth and still in his pit.
Massa would set a 1m:32.354 while Alonso would go faster in sector one but
would take to the gravel at the Turn seven hairpin. He would make his way
out as Schumacher moved up to third, 1m:32.411, running on the option tyre.
Pastor had pitted while Rubens was back out with fifty two minutes of the
session completed. On the softer tyre it was now Webber's turn to go fastest
with a lap of 1m:31.770. Di Resta was now sixth, 1m:33.299, also on the soft
tyre. Team-mate Sutil would take this spot with a 1m:33.211 to see the Force
India cars sixth and seventh. Rubens was now in thirteenth, 1m:34.989, while
Pastor had dropped to fourteenth. Webber continued to show pace going faster in the final sector.
Rosberg would also find time on the softer tyre moving up to fifth,
1m:32.557. Vettel was currently in tenth.
Vettel was out on the softer tyre as Heidfeld moved up to eleventh,
1m:33.905. Vettel's first lap on the softer tyre would not see him improve
but he kept on it finishing his next lap with a 1m:32.084 to now be third.
He had set the fastest time in the final sector. Rosberg would have a big
moment taking a high-speed run across the gravel at the Schumacher S. He
would return to the track without any damage and was able to continue.
Button was down in seventeenth but like others would be out on the soft tyre and
would improve to be ninth, 1m:33.225. Rubens and Pastor were now in
fourteenth and seventeenth. Webber had improved his quickest time with a
1m:31.711 prior to pitting. Rubens was now back out with twenty three
minutes remaining. Alonso was also out on the track joined a few minutes
later by Webber.
Button would pit while Hamilton came back out. Pastor would also return to
the track seeing the track now fairly busy with twenty minutes left in the
session. Rubens would complete a pit-lane run through test as we also saw
Massa back out. With fifteen minutes remaining Webber was fastest from
Alonso, Vettel, Massa, Schumacher, Rosberg, Hamilton, Petrov, Sutil, and
Button now in tenth. It was reported that Button had a problem with his car
relating to a new exhaust system that would not see him come back out. Both
Rubens and Pastor were circulating around the track with both drivers having completed
over twenty five laps. There were now only four drivers in the pits, two of
them with car problems. Vettel was back out on the softer tyre running a
longer un evaluation of these tyres. The times were in the 1m:37s as they
carried out their evaluations.
Alonso would pit briefly taking on the prime tyre while Heidfeld was up to
ninth, 1m:33.098. Rubens and Pastor had now both completed over thirty laps
with five minutes remaining. The final minutes would count down with Rubens
and Pastor still in fourteenth and seventeenth. The session would come to an
end with no change in the order. For the Williams team Rubens and Pastor
would remain in fourteenth and seventeenth. It was very much a session that
saw the team continue with their update evaluation. But there is still a
long way to go in terms of getting additional performance from the FW33.
Both Rubens and Pastor continued to be several seconds off the pace but
there was over half a second separating the pair. It would all come down to
how they would fare come Saturday practice as to whether they have any
prospect of achieving a good result in qualifying. |
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