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The second Friday practice for
the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix would see the cars go out in sunshine, a big
change from the opening session. For the Williams F1 team they would
continue with their updates in this session. Several drivers would use a new
prototype tyre that Pirelli had supplied, including both Williams drivers
Valtteri Bottas and Pastor Maldonado. After their first runs the Williams
pair would be in seventeenth and eighteenth with Valtteri leading Pastor. With fifteen
minutes of the session completed Rosberg was fastest, 1m:23.801, from
Hamilton, Raikkonen, Alonso, Ricciardo, Vergne, Webber, Massa, Gutierrez,
and Vettel tenth.
After completing five laps both Williams drivers would pit but after a short
break they would return to the track. They were both again on the hard tyre
but this time it was the standard tyre. Vergne would go out on the medium
tyre as Valtteri started a quicker lap. He would finish his lap with a
1m:25.401 to be sixth but was 1.6 seconds off the quickest time of Rosberg.
Pastor would also improve with a 1m:25.570 to be seventh. The Williams team
was conducting front wing comparisons as Webber went fastest with a
1m:23.112 with Vettel second. Vergne was now fifth, 1m:24.058, on his medium
tyre. Pastor had improved with a 1m:25.321 to move ahead of Valtteri. Pastor and Valtteri were tenth and eleventh with the
track now very busy.
Alonso would go fastest with a 1m:23.030 with Massa now third. Pastor and
Valtteri had dropped to fourteenth and fifteenth and had both pitted. Just
under an hour remaining and the track was fairly empty as Webber took to the
track on the medium tyre. He would set a 1m:22.891 to go quickest. Pastor
was also on the track on the medium tyre joined shortly after by Valtteri. Vettel was also out on
the medium tyre and would go fastest with a 1m:22.808. Valtteri would find
time with his medium tyres setting a 1m:24.888 to be twelfth. Pastor was
down in fifteenth as Massa moved up to fourth, 1m:23.110. Ferrari team-mate
Alonso would go second fastest with a 1m:22.825 while Sutil would move up to
seventh with a time of 1m:23.840.
Hamilton and Rosberg were fifth and sixth as both Williams drivers pitted.
Raikkonen was now fourth, 1m:23.030, with forty minutes remaining in the
session. Valtteri had dropped to fourteenth with Pastor sixteenth. Drivers
were now out doing longer runs on the medium tyre. Valtteri would return to
the track again on the medium tyre. With thirty minutes remaining Vettel was
still fastest from Alonso, Webber, Raikkonen, Massa, Hamilton, Rosberg, Sutil, Vergne, and Di Resta tenth.
Pastor would join his team-mate out on the track with Pastor on the hard
tyre. There were only the Sauber's in the pits with twenty minutes
remaining. Vettel would pit while Di Resta would stop out on the track with
his left rear tyre looking very damaged as the tread had came off the
carcass of the tyre.
Valtteri would pit briefly with fifteen minutes remaining. Both Williams
drivers were out on longer runs as the final minutes of the session started.
Valtteri had completed thirty four laps with Pastor thirty two. Pastor had
also come in for a practice pit stop but he would pit with a few minutes
remaining. The session would come to an end with Valtteri and Pastor's
position unchanged. Both Williams drivers would finish the session over two
seconds off the quickest time with the team again having a lot of work to
assess the data from the Friday sessions to see if they can find more pace
from the FW35. |