Alonso Shows Early Pace


By Sam Cooper
March 16 2007

Double world champion Fernando Alonso finished first at the Albert Park circuit, his nearest competitor was a huge 1.5 seconds away from Fernando, with rookie Lewis Hamilton impressing the world by finishing 4th in his first ever grand prix practice session and this session wasn’t easy to complete.

Even Ferrari’s Kimi Räikkönen struggled to complete a time, he did but his time was far from fast, his best time throughout the session only reached 1.39.242 some 10 seconds behind pace setter Fernando Alonso.

The track was wet at the start of the session which didn’t help teams to tune their cars to the right set up ahead of qualifying, to the end of the session the track dried out and conditions were easier to drive in.

Practice one times are shown below

Position
 Driver Constuctor Time

Laps

1 Fernando Alonso McLaren 1:29.214 23
2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:30.707 7
3 Sebastian Vettel BMW 1:30.857 22
4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:30.878 14
5 Jenson Button Honda 1:31.162 15
6 Kazuki Nakajima Williams 1:31.401 21
7 David Coulthard Red Bull 1:31.528 9
8 Hekki Kovalainen Renault 1:31.571 20
9 Mark Webber Red Bull 1:31.661 16
10 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:31.737 12
11 Takuma Sato Super Aguri 1:31.782 7
12 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:32.011 14
13 Alexander Wurz Williams 1:32.194 18
14 Adrian Sutil Spyker 1:34.043 26
15 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR 1:34.627 8
16 Christian Albers Spyker 1.35.055 10
17 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:37.249 12
18 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri 1:39.221 6
19 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:39.221 7
20 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:39.550 9
21 Scott Speed STR 1:41.763 9
22 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:44.130 11

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