Korean GP: Williams drivers outside the top ten after FP2


Bruno Senna

By Andrew Hooper
October 12 2012

The second Friday practice session for the 2012 Korean GP would see both Williams F1 drivers outside the top ten with Bruno Senna 12th and Pastor Maldonado 18th. Not the result that the team was hoping for but they were confident that there is more pace to come from their cars.

 
 Korean GP Friday 2nd Practice
 
Senna
 
With Valtteri Bottas completing testing for the Williams F1 team in the first Friday practice for the Korean Grand Prix regular Bruno Senna would replace him for the second session. With the start of the session both Bruno and Pastor Maldonado would head out on the soft tyre, with both drivers aiming to use the super soft tyre later in the session. Having not run in the first session Bruno would have to get use to the Korean circuit. Hamilton would be first out in the session and after ten minutes it would be Schumacher fastest, 1m:39.911, followed by Alonso and Di Resta. But shortly after Vettel would go fastest with a time of 1m:39.794, with team-mate Webber third behind Schumacher. For Bruno he would spin at Turns 11/12 but he was able to get his car back onto the track and would continue.

As the session progressed Bruno would continue with the soft tyre and after forty minutes he would be eleventh with a time of 1m:40.464. After spending time in their pits talking to their engineers and with thirty minutes of the session remaining both Bruno and Pastor would take to the track using the super soft tyres. Pastor would try longer runs using this tyre and as the session drew to a close Bruno was in twelfth with a time of 1m:40.089 and Pastor eighteenth with a 1m:41.200. But with the end of the session their positions would remain the same with neither driver truly showing their potential. It was later confirmed that Pastor had an issue with his car that the team were looking into.

With both Williams drivers outside the top ten there would be a lot of work to do overnight for the Williams team. But the team was confident that there was more pace to come from their cars. Fastest in the session was Vettel with a 1m:38.832 followed by Webber, Alonso, Button, Schumacher, Massa, Rosberg, Hamilton, Hulkenberg, and Raikkonen.
 
Maldonado
  
Pos  Driver         	 Team		       Time      Laps
 1.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault      1m38.832s 33
 2.  Mark Webber         Red Bull-Renault      1m38.864s 33
 3.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari               1m39.160s 28
 4.  Jenson Button       McLaren-Mercedes      1m39.219s 29
 5.  Michael Schumacher  Mercedes              1m39.330s 31
 6.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari               1m39.422s 30
 7.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes              1m39.584s 36
 8.  Lewis Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes      1m39.717s 25
 9.  Nico Hulkenberg     Force India-Mercedes  1m39.739s 33
10.  Kimi Raikkonen      Lotus-Renault         1m39.839s 26
11.  Romain Grosjean     Lotus-Renault         1m39.957s 28
12.  Bruno Senna         Williams-Renault      1m40.089s 32
13.  Paul di Resta       Force India-Mercedes  1m40.112s 34
14.  Kamui Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari        1m40.445s 28
15.  Sergio Perez        Sauber-Ferrari        1m40.745s 11
16.  Jean-Eric Vergne    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m40.789s 31
17.  Daniel Ricciardo    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m40.997s 32
18.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Renault      1m41.200s 33
19.  Heikki Kovalainen   Caterham-Renault      1m41.602s 23
20.  Timo Glock          Marussia-Cosworth     1m42.596s 28
21.  Vitaly Petrov       Caterham-Renault      1m43.067s 21
23.  Charles Pic         Marussia-Cosworth     1m43.636s 22
22.  Narain Karthikeyan  HRT-Cosworth          1m43.869s 36
24.  Pedro de la Rosa    HRT-Cosworth          1m44.533s 24
 

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