Spanish GP: Low key start to weekend for Williams in FP1
By Andrew Hooper
May 8 2015
It would be a low key start to weekend for Williams Martini team as they completed the first Friday practice session for the 2015 Spanish GP. Suzie Wolff had replaced Valtteri Bottas for this session and joing Felipe Massa they would finish in 8th and 14th. Both drivers would have runs in the first half an hour but it would not be until the final thirty minutes that they would return to the track.
Williams
Martini Spanish GP Friday 1st Practice
Team Summary:
Pirelli would have their medium and hard tyres available for the Williams
team. Both drivers would complete their installation laps while Rosberg
would set the first time with a 1m:31.039 with Hamilton second. Suzie would
set the first time for Williams while Rosberg would set a 1m:28.284 to be
quickest. But Vettel would lower the time with a 1m:28.141. Both Williams
drivers would be running together as Hamilton set a 1m:27.509 to be
quickest. A 1m:27,333 from Rosberg as drivers started to pit to return their
extra set of Pirelli's. Both Williams drivers had completed eight laps.
Felipe and Suzie were currently eighth and seventeenth. With just over
thirty minutes remaining neither of the Williams drivers had returned to the track.
Hamilton would go quickest with a 1m:26.898 with Rosberg second from Vettel. Rosberg would set
a 1m:26.828 to be quickest as both Williams drivers got into their cars for
their next runs. On their next runs Suzie would move to tenth while Felipe
was eighth. Both drivers were setting times in the high 1m:29s. With the end
of the session neither driver would improve on their times with Felipe 2.0
seconds off the pace of the quickest times. Suzie was 2.8 seconds off the
pace with the end of the session. Felipe had complete twelve laps and Suzie
fifteen.
Felipe Massa:
Felipe would be first out for his installation lap running on the hard tyre.
He would complete two laps prior to pitting. Felipe would return to the
track for his first timed runs. His first time was a 1m:30.428 to be
seventh. He would drop to ninth but he would lower his time with a 1m:29.839
to be seventh then eighth. Felipe would pit second in the speed trap with a
329.3kph. Felipe would also get out of his car going over to the pit wall
taking to his engineer Dave Robson. Felipe would drop to tenth. Felipe would
follow Suzie out for his next run. Felipe would set a 1m:28.831 to be
eighth. Felipe would have a big oversteer moment on one of his laps.
Suzie Wolff:
Suzie would replace Valtteri Bottas for the first Friday practice in Spain.
Suzie would take to the track also on the hard tyre pitting after one lap.
With the extra set of hard tyres for the first half hour Suzie would return
told that she would do five timed laps. here first time was a 1m:33.029 to
be currently fourth. She would improve with a 1m:31.374 to be seventh. AS
the times dropped Suzie would drop to thirteenth. A 1m:31.333 would see her
currently seventeenth. She would pit with an hour remaining in the session.
Suzie was fourth quickest in the speeds with a 327.4kph. Suzie would get out
of her car waiting to see conditions improve taking to her engineer Jonathan
Eddolls.
Suzie would return to the track with twenty minutes remaining in the
session. A 1m:30.543 would not see any improvement remaining seventeenth.
But on her next lap she would set a 1m:29.708 to be tenth. She would drop to
fourteenth as she pitted briefly returning to the track pitting just before
the end of the session.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m26.828s 28
2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m26.898s 27
3 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m27.806s 21
4 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m27.832s 16
5 Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso/Renault 1m28.132s 27
6 Max Verstappen Toro Rosso/Renault 1m28.529s 23
7 Daniil Kvyat Red Bull/Renault 1m28.785s 7
8 Felipe Massa Williams/Mercedes 1m28.831s 21
9 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull/Renault 1m29.075s 9
10 Felipe Nasr Sauber/Ferrari 1m29.140s 14
11 Nico Hulkenberg Force India/Mercedes 1m29.409s 20
12 Raffaele Marciello Sauber/Ferrari 1m29.630s 15
13 Jolyon Palmer Lotus/Mercedes 1m29.676s 21
14 Susie Wolff Williams/Mercedes 1m29.708s 22
15 Fernando Alonso McLaren/Honda 1m29.813s 22
16 Jenson Button McLaren/Honda 1m29.817s 22
17 Sergio Perez Force India/Mercedes 1m30.096s 19
18 Pastor Maldonado Lotus/Mercedes 1m30.110s 7
19 Will Stevens Marussia/Ferrari 1m32.471s 22
20 Roberto Merhi Marussia/Ferrari 1m32.647s 20
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