Turkish GP: Hulkenberg improves in second practice
Improvement from Nico
By Andrew Hooper
May 28 2010
AT&T Williams driver Nico Hulkenberg would improve his time in the second Friday practice session for the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix. He would finish in twelfth. The same could not be said of team-mate Rubens Barrichello who would remain down the order in seventeenth. Nico would suffer a hydraulic leak on his FW32 seeing him stuck in his pit for a great part of the session.
Turkish GP Friday 2nd
Practice
After a troubled
first Friday practice the AT&T Williams team would be hoping for an improved
second Friday practice session for the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix. Both
Williams drivers were somewhat off the pace, struggling with the older front
wing that they have been forced to run. For Nico Hulkenberg his second
session would have a technical problem with a hydraulic leak on his FW32.
The problem would be repaired but it would see not return to the track until
well into the last half hour of the session. At the time he was in
sixteenth.
Nico
would improve his time with 1m:29.987 to move up to eleventh as his second
run of the afternoon continues. He would finish the session in twelfth
without improving on his time. As for team-mate Rubens Barrichello his
session would see set an early time of 1m:31.517.
As was the case
with most drivers in the later part of the session he would run on the
softer tyre setting a time of 1m:30.766 to be fourteenth. By the end of the
session he had dropped to a disappointing seventeenth, five places behind
Nico and some eight tenths of a second behind Nico.
Despite the improvement from Nico the Williams team again seems to find
getting pace from the FW32 a difficult exercise. But having said that Nico's
time was a big step forward. Now it comes down to whether Rubens can also
show signs of improvement come Saturday's practice.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.280 30
2. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:28.378 24
3. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:28.590 26
4. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.672 32
5. Alonso Ferrari 1:28.725 30
6. Rosberg Mercedes 1:28.914 22
7. Schumacher Mercedes 1:28.974 22
8. Kubica Renault 1:29.225 34
9. Petrov Renault 1:29.501 36
10. Massa Ferrari 1:29.620 26
11. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:29.629 16
12. Hulkenberg AT&T Williams-Cosworth 1:29.987 17
13. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:30.053 34
14. de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:30.176 34
15. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:30.386 32
16. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:30.627 28
17. Barrichello AT&T Williams-Cosworth 1:30.766 32
18. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:30.933 37
19. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:31.610 37
20. di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:33.013 28
21. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:33.081 11
22. Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:33.312 29
23. Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:33.420 35
24. Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:33.740 25
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