Chinese GP Practice

Posted on Friday 17 Apr 2009 and tagged with china, shanghai.

Practice 1, 10.00 - 11.30hrs
10.21: Buemi completes the weekend’s first flying lap, 1m41.316s.
10.22: Buemi posts a 1m39.959s.
10.26: Räikkönen runs wide at T14.
10.27: Buemi posts a 1m39.395s.
10.28: Trulli laps in 1m39.269s.
10.30: Räikkönen laps in 1m38.530s, Trulli in 1m37.945s.
10.31: Trulli improves to 1m37.797s.
10.33: Trulli slows to a crawl and returns to the pits.
10.35: Rosberg goes second, 1m38.174s.
10.43: Hamilton laps in 1m37.603s, Webber in 1m37.752s.
10.44: Glock runs off the circuit at T11.
10.46: Glock skates wide again, at T2.
10.47: Button laps in 1m37.450s.
11.01: Hamilton sets a 1m37.334s.
11.03: Piquet runs onto the grass at T11.
11.07: Massa spins at T14.
11.11: Alonso runs wide at T14.
11.13: Nakajima slides wide at T2.
11.15: Rosberg runs wide at T14…
11.16: ...as does Nakajima.
11.22: Heidfeld slithers wide at T14.
11.30: Session ends with Hamilton fastest from Button, Barrichello and Kovalainen.
Rosberg is 7th, Nakajima 19th.

Practice 2, 14.00 - 15.30hrs
14.07: Alonso goes off at Turn 14 but rejoins.
14.16: Nakajima sets quickest time, lm37.690s.
14.18: Rosberg laps in 1m37.464s.
14.22: Trulli posts 1m36.686s, then improves to 1m36.361s.
14.24: Glock makes it a Toyota 1-2 with 1m36.361s.
14.26: Webber quickest for Red Bull, 1m36.179s.
14.27: Vettel goes a hundredth quicker in the second Red Bull.
14.27: Alonso goes off at 16 and rejoins.
14.46: Fisichella goes off at Turn 14 and resumes…
14.47: As does Sutil at Turn 1.
14.54: Barrichello sets fastest lap, 1m35.995s, then 1m35.881s.
14.57: Button makes it a Brawn 1-2 with 1m36.059s.
15.02: Massa goes off at Turn 10 and rejoins.
15.14: Fisichella goes off at Turn 2 and rejoins.
15.18: Raikkonen runs wide at Turn 11 and rejoins.
15.21: Button sets fastest time with 1m35.679s.
15.27: Rosberg splits Brawns with 1m35.704s.
15.28: Nakajima seventh with 1m36.377s.
15.30: Sutil spins at Turn 2.
15.30: Session ends with Button quickest from Rosberg, Barrichello, Webber, Vettel, Trulli and Nakajima.

Nico Rosberg: It’s been an interesting day for us. We’ve learnt a lot, particularly about the tyres and how to get the best out of them here. The one major thing for us at the moment though is that this season we have consistency from one track to another. We’re now going to a race and not getting any big surprises as we seem to have learnt from our mistakes from last year.

Kazuki Nakajima: It was a bit difficult out there for me today. The tyres were behaving strangely this morning but they did improve a little this afternoon. I was also struggling to find a good balance. I now need to see where I can improve for qualifying tomorrow.  We’ll see how we go.

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