Spanish GP: FP2 sees Williams Martini in top ten


By Andrew Hooper
May 8 2015

The second Friday practice session for the 2015 Spanish GP would see Williams Martini drivers Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa 8th and 10th. In what was an uneventful session for the team both drivers would work through longer runs on the medium tyre prior to taking on the harder tyre late in the session. 

 
  Williams Martini Spanish GP Friday 2nd Practice
 
Bottas
 

Team Summary:
Vettel would set the first quick time with a 1m:29.294 followed by Hulkenberg and Perez. Both Williams drivers were out for their first run both of hard tyres. Rosberg was now second but Valtteri would go third with a 1m:30.834. Rosberg would go fastest with a 1m:29.075 from Vettel and Raikkonen. Fifteen minutes completed and Hamilton would go fastest with a 1m:27.826. After their first runs the Williams drivers were eighth and twelfth. The session would be red flagged as a result of debris on the main straight. It was the engine cover from Grosjean's Lotus.

The Williams drivers were first to come back out with the restart of the session. They were told that both Felipe and Valtteri would do two laps pushing to check tyre temperatures. The Williams pair were eighth and ninth but they would drop to ninth and tenth. Vettel would go quickest with a 1m:27.260 running on the medium tyre with one hour remaining. Felipe and Valtteri had dropped to eleventh and twelfth. Hamilton would go fastest with a 1m:26.852, to be 0.5 seconds ahead of Vettel. Thirty minutes remaining and Valtteri and Felipe were eighth and tenth. Both Williams drivers were on longer runs on the medium tyre. They would complete the session running on the hard tyre. With the end of the session Valtteri and Felipe were eighth and tenth.

Felipe Massa:
Felipe would follow Valtteri out for his first run and would set a 1m:30.262 to be seventh then eighth. Felipe would pit having completed eight laps. Felipe would return to the track this time on the option medium tyre. His first lap was a 1m:28.712 to be fourth, which is 1.45 seconds off the quickest time. Felipe would pit after his medium tyre run. Felipe had the quickest speed with 330.4kph. Felipe was currently ninth as he returned to the track still on the medium tyre. Felipe was now tenth and after a long run would pit briefly taking on the hard compound tyre.

Valtteri Bottas:
Valtteri would return to his driving duties and would be first out for the Williams team. He would set a 1m:30.834 to be third but would drop to fourth then down to eighth. With the red flag Valtteri had dropped to twelfth. On his second run Valtteri would set a 1m:30.332 to now be ninth. Valtteri would pit currently tenth but would drop to thirteenth as others went faster on the option tyre. Valtteri would also come out for a medium tyre run and would improve with a 1m:28.525 to be sixth which would become seventh. Valtteri was back out on the track currently eighth. Valtteri would complete his long run on the medium tyre pitting to take on the hard tyre.

 
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Pos  Driver         	Team		        Time     Laps
1  Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes		1m26.852s 26
2  Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari			1m27.260s 37
3  Nico Rosberg		Mercedes		1m27.616s 35
4  Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari			1m27.780s 36
5  Daniil Kvyat		Red Bull-Renault	1m27.943s 25
6  Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso-Renault	1m28.017s 32
7  Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda		1m28.494s 31
8  Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1m28.525s 39
9  Carlos Sainz		Toro Rosso-Renault	1m28.674s 31
10 Felipe Massa		Williams-Mercedes	1m28.712s 36
11 Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda		1m28.723s 28
12 Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Mercedes		1m29.086s 14
13 Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	1m29.098s 4
14 Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Mercedes		1m29.217s 34
15 Felipe Nasr		Sauber-Ferrari		1m29.333s 37
16 Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari		1m29.361s 34
17 Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m29.601s 38
18 Sergio Perez		Force India-Mercedes	1m29.707s 35
19 Will Stevens		Marussia-Ferrari	1m31.929s 30
20 Roberto Merhi	Marussia-Ferrari	1m32.751s 23
 
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