Malaysian GP Practice

Posted on Friday 03 Apr 2009 and tagged with Malaysia, sepang.

Practice 1, 10.00 – 11.30hrs
10.23: Räikkönen completes the weekend’s first flying lap, 1m42.194s.
10.24: Räikkönen bounces wide over the kerbs at Turn 12.
10.30: Räikkönen laps in 1m38.398s, Nakajima in 1m38.354s.
10.31: Räikkönen laps in 1m37.628s.
10.36: Trulli spins at t15.
10.39: Massa laps in 1m37.343s.
10.40: Rosberg goes fastest for Williams, 1m37.265s.
10.41: Fisichella locks up and runs wide at t1.
10.43: Barrichello laps in 1m37.260s, Rosberg in 1m36.879s.
10.49: Glock spins at t11.
10.58: Button posts a 1m36.676s.
11.01: Button ups his pace: 1m36.430s.
11.17: Hamilton skates wide at t15.
11.24: Räikkönen pits with his Ferrari wreathed in smoke.
11.25: Piquet slides off at t6 and stops in the gravel.
11.30: Rosberg and Nakajima lap in 1m36.260s and 1m36.305s respectively to finish the session 1-2 for Williams. Button and Barrichello complete the top four.

Practice 2, 14.00 – 15.30hrs
14.09: Glock spins and continues.
14.21: Webber improves on morning time to go quickest in 1m36.686s.
14.26: Nakajima sets the quickest afternoon session time at 1m36.629s.
14.27: Button goes fastest in 1m36.614s, then improves to 1m36.555s.
14.31: Glock skates across the grass at t6 & rejoins.
14.35: Bourdais goes across the gravel at t13 and carries on.
14.38: Räikkönen laps in 1m36.523s to go fastest.
14.42: Barrichello across the grass at t8 but continues.
14.50: Vettel, just 0.02s behind Rosberg’s morning best, goes quickest in 1m36.289s.
15.01: Massa turns the quickest time of the day, 1m36.191s.
15.03: Barrichello equals Vettel’s second fastest time to the thousandth.
15.02: Alonso sets sector one best but has a brief excursion at t14.
15.05: Sutil goes across the t7 gravel and rejoins.
15.07: Fisichella’s Force India goes into the tyre barrier at t11.
15.08: Massa sets first sub 1m36s lap (1m35.832s) to go fastest, Räikkönen is second 0.19s slower, and Webber’s Red Bull third on 1m36.104s.
15.13: Räikkönen goes quicker again with 1m35.707s.
15.25: Rosberg, fifth (1m36.026s) improves to fourth.
 

Nico Rosberg: We had a very good day and made a lot of set-up changes, and made good progress in finding a way forward. We also completed a good tyre test which is important as I think we now have a good idea of what is going on with the tyres for this circuit. Everything worked out well today and of course we all had our first sessions driving in the heat, but I think my fitness preparation over the winter has helped a lot.

Kazuki Nakajima: Today was a very positive day and we have carried over our competitiveness from the last race. Whether we are as quick relatively as we were in Melbourne remains to be seen, but certainly we are far further ahead than we were here last year and we’ll keep pushing on tomorrow and see what more we can find.

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