After a difficult opening Friday practice session for the 2014 British GP the Williams Martini team would see both their cars return to the track in the seciond session. Valtteri Bottas would finish the session in an encouraging 6th while Felipe massa was down in 11th. Felipe would not return t the track until mid session as his mechanics had a lot of work to do to complete the repairs after his earlier accident.
British GP Friday 2nd
Practice
With the mechanics still hard at
work to complete the repairs of Felipe Massa's car the Williams Martini team
would start the second Friday practice session for the 2014 British Grand
Prix by sending out Valtteri Bottas. Valtteri's car had stopped in the first
session with Suzie Wolff at the wheel. This car had suffered from an engine
related issue but the team had been able to fix this. Valtteri would be the
first driver to set a time in the session with a 1m:39.032. But Valtteri's
time would be quickly passed with Valtteri dropping to fifth. Button was
fastest, 1m:37.608, from Kvyat and Vergne. It was at this time the Williams team would say that all
the corners of Felipe's car were repaired and that they expected to see him
out soon.
Button would lower the quickest time with a 1m:37.414 but Valtteri would
also improve moving to the top of the times with a 1m:37.363. With nearly
twenty minutes of the session complete it would be Rosberg fastest with a
1m:35.645 with Alonso second. But Hamilton would again make it a Merced
one-two by setting a new quickest time with a 1m:35.424. Ricciardo would
move up to fourth while Vettel was seventh, but he would improve to be fifth. Valtteri had dropped to
seventh while Felipe was still in his pit. But with just under thirty
minutes of the session Felipe was back out on the track. We also had the
first of the drivers out on the medium tyre, Ericsson and Gutierrez. Felipe
was now in seventh to be ahead of Valtteri being down in ninth.
Felipe would improve to be sixth as other drivers took to the medium tyre
including Alonso, Magnussen and both Force India cars. Rosberg would also
come out on the softer tyre setting a 1m:34.736 to be fastest by seven
tenths. But Hamilton would pass his team-mate with a 1m:34.508. Alonso was
down in fourth but on the medium tyre would move up to third. With forty
minutes left in the session the order was Hamilton, Rosberg, Alonso,
Ricciardo, Vettel, and Valtteri sixth. Felipe was now down in eleventh while
at the front we would have the sight of Hamilton stopping out on the track
with and engine issue. Hamilton would lose some valuable time out on the
track. Valtteri would be forced to pit with parts missing from his engine
cover having lost it while going down the Hangar straight.
The session would come to an end with Valtteri sixth and Felipe eleventh. A
great effort from the Williams team to get both cars out on the track
collecting valuable data in the lead-up to Saturday. The top ten would be
Hamilton, Rosberg, Alonso, Ricciardo, Vettel, Valtteri, Button, Magnussen,
Raikkonen and Vergne.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m34.508s 14
2. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m34.736s 35
3. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m35.244s 32
4. Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault 1m35.511s 11
5. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m35.627s 27
6. Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 1m36.016s 33
7. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m36.228s 34
8. Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes 1m36.299s 35
9. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m36.554s 29
10. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault 1m36.583s 26
11. Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 1m36.671s 29
12. Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault 1m36.778s 31
13. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 1m36.951s 35
14. Pastor Maldonado Lotus-Renault 1m37.064s 35
15. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m37.097s 33
16. Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 1m37.236s 37
17. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m37.449s 27
18. Adrian Sutil Sauber-Ferrari 1m37.520s 25
19. Jules Bianchi Marussia-Ferrari 1m38.658s 11
20. Kamui Kobayashi Caterham-Renault 1m39.068s 31
21. Max Chilton Marussia-Ferrari 1m39.224s 28
22. Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault 1m39.762s 21
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