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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:14 pm
by Ed
Piquet spins again! The guy looked good but it seems he is pushing to hard. This time he spins backward into the gravel. Luckily for him, he manages to get back on track but he has destroyed another set of soft tyres!
Flavio won't be impressed!!
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:15 pm
by Ed
Button back on the track on the softer compound. He is currently in 8th
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:18 pm
by Ed
Button improves 1 spot to 7th
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:21 pm
by Ed
Apart from Massa's quick times in the morning, Ferrari, McLaren and BMW continue to feature in the lower half of the grid.
Currently Raikkonen is 10th, Kovalainen in 12th, Massa in 13th, Kubica in 14th, Hamilton in 16th and Heidfeld in 17th
Also interesting is that Glock and Trulli are 18th and 19th respectively.
Sutil has yet to go out this session.
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:23 pm
by Ed
Hamilton is up into 12th on the soft compound
Rosberg is flying!
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:25 pm
by Ed
Rosberg improves in 1st with a 1:21.588.
Alonso was on a quick lap until he got held up by Hamilton!
5 minutes remain!
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:27 pm
by Ed
Now Alonso has some clear air!
He moves into 3rd with a 1:21.781
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:29 pm
by Ed
The Williams look like taking the first 2 spots today unless someone goes quicker in the final minute!
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:29 pm
by Ed
Yellow flags, Rosberg is off and out of his car!
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:31 pm
by Ed
Looks like Rosberg just lost drive and parked it.
Those on a flyer have 1 last lap!
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 11:35 pm
by Ed
No improvements.
Session over!
Top 10: Rosberg, Nakajima, Alonso, Barrichello, Webber, Button, Vettel, Piquet, Buemi and Raikkonen (+1.011).
Bourdais, Fisichella, Hamilton, Kovalainen, Massa, Kubica, Heidfeld, Glock, Trulli and Sutil make up the rest of the field.
Sutil did not take part in this session.
Trulli covered the most number of laps with 47. Buemi who had a major brake problem very early in the session covered the least number of laps with 17. Piquet who looked quick but went off twice covered 26 laps.
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 8:12 am
by Julian Mayo
Fuel loads, fuel loads, it all comes down to fuel loads.................???
Webbers times on the hard compund.......damned near as quick as Vettel on the softs........!!!!!.
Piquet just doesn't seem to have the brain speed for F1 at the limits. For those who do everything happens almost in "slow motion".for we mere mortals it is a blur. PK just doesn't seem to be able to relax enough at 10 tenths
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 7:01 pm
by Ed
Saturday practice session underway. Air temperature is 19 degrees while track temperature is 28 degrees.
The cars stream out of the pits on their installation lap
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 7:05 pm
by Ed
Drivers are back in the pits
Only Hamilton and Raikkonen are on the track completing their lap
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 7:07 pm
by Ed
Glock and Webber are back out as Hamilton and Raikkonen pit