Australian GP Practice

Posted on Friday 27 Mar 2009 and tagged with australia.

Practice 1, 1230 – 1400hrs
12.58: After a period of inactivity, Buemi completes the season’s first flying lap, a 1m 1.493s.
13.03: Buemi sets a 1m 33.622s.
13.04: Räikkönen completes his first flying lap in 1m 32.121s.
13.07: Räikkönen laps in 1m 28.718s.
13.09: Räikkönen runs wide at turn 2.
13.09: Felipe Massa slithers down the escape road at the first chicane.
13.13: Vettel pulls off at turn 7.
13.18: Kovalainen moves to the top of the times with 1m 27.982s
13.21: Barrichello posts a 1m 27.743s.
13.29: Räikkönen laps in 1m 26.750s.
13.38: Kazuki Nakajima’s car has a right rear puncture.
13.40: Nelson Piquet spins at turn 1, then rejoins.
13.44: Nico Rosberg (1m 27.293s) goes 2nd fastest.
13.49: Barrichello runs across the grass at turn 1.
13.59: Rosberg is now fastest, 1m 26.687s.
14.00: Chequered flag.
14.01: Nakajima posts a 1m 26.736s to complete a Williams 1-2, 0.049s adrift of team-mate Rosberg.

Practice 2, 1630 – 1800hrs
16.30: Trulli’s Toyota is the first car onto the circuit.
16:38: Alonso spins at turn 4
16.41: Sutil’s Force India is P1 with a 1m28.111s.
16:50: The track is clearly improving as Trulli improves to 1m26.925s.
16.55: Glock makes it a Toyota 1-2 at the top of the times with a lap in 1m26.689s
16:57: Kovalainen locks up his right front tyre and goes across the grass at turn 2.
16:58: Rosberg records the best time of the day, a 1m26.293s in his Williams-Toyota
17:01: Button’s Brawn goes off the circuit at turn 3 but continues.
17.10: Rosberg goes quicker still, lapping in 1m26.053s.
17:15: Halfway point in the session and Rosberg is quickest from Trulli, Barrichello, Glock, Button, Nakajima, Vettel, Sutil, Massa and Webber.
17:23: Kubica sets his best time of the session so far and is 12th in the first of the BMWs.
17:28: Vettel, with personal bests in sectors 1 and 3, spins at turn 3, ending his session.
17.30: Massa is 10th quickest (1m27.064s)
17:58: Barrichello does a 1m 26.157 to go second, a tenth slower than Rosberg.
18:00: As the flag falls on the season’s opening day, Rosberg and Williams are quickest (1:26.053), from Barrichello’s Brawn (1m26.157s), Trulli’s Toyota (1m26.350s) & Nakajima is 7th (1m26.560s).
 
Sectors:
Nico Rosberg: In both sessions sector two was working particularly well. There are only two ‘real’ corners in the sector, but it’s really interesting and it feels good in the car. The FW31 is well balanced all round the track, but seems even more so there than in any other places. After a winter of testing, it’s good to get out on a new, fresh track and we seem to be in a better position than we thought.

Kazuki Nakajima: Sector two is my favourite here at Albert Park. It includes a complete variety of corners, from the medium speed in turn 6 to the slow speed corners like 9, while 11 and 12 are the quickest. It makes it hard to establish a rhythm, but sector two certainly keeps your attention!

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