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Here are the times of the 2nd free practice session :
1. Sebastian Vettel : Red Bull Racing : 1:39.334 - laps 32 2. Nico Hulkenberg : Force India : 1:39.465 + 0.131 laps 32 3. Kamui Kobayashi : Sauber : 1:39.595 + 0.261 laps 20 4. Michael Schumacher : Mercedes GP : 1:39.601 + 0.267 laps 27 5. Bruno Senna : Williams : 1:39.644 + 0.310 laps 34 6. Paul di Resta : Force India : 1:39.700 + 0.366 laps 32 7. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari : 1:39.733 + 0.399 laps 34 8. Romain Grosjean : Lotus : 1:39.868 + 0.534 laps 33 9. Mark Webber : Red Bull Racing : 1:39.901 + 0.567 laps 30 10. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP : 1:39.926 + 0.592 laps 32 11. Kimi Räikkönen : Lotus : 1:39.945 + 0.611 laps 34 12. Jenson Button : McLaren : 1:39.990 + 0.656 laps 33 13. Pastor Maldonado : Williams : 1:40.075 + 0.741 laps 29 14. Lewis Hamilton : McLaren : 1:40.147 + 0.813 laps 25 15. Felipe Massa : Ferrari : 1:40.244 + 0.910 laps 35 16. Sergio Perez : Sauber : 1:40.511 + 1.177 laps 29 17. Vitaly Petrov : Caterham : 1:40.963 + 1.629 laps 20 18. Daniel Ricciardo : Toro Rosso : 1:41.121 + 1.787 laps 32 19. Heikki Kovalainen : Caterham : 1:41.197 + 1.863 laps 38 20. Jean-Eric Vergne : Toro Rosso : 1:41.263 + 1.929 laps 29 21. Timo Glock : Marussia F1 Team : 1:42.424 + 3.090 laps 21 22. Charles Pic : Marussia F1 Team : 1:42.958 + 3.624 laps 30 23. Narain Karthikeyan : HRT F1 Team : 1:44.201 + 4.867 laps 33 24. Pedro de la Rosa : HRT F1 Team : 1:44.260 + 4.926 laps 12 Comment of the 2nd practice sesion : World champion Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time of the day in the second free practice session for the European Grand Prix in Valencia. The Red Bull driver, running an upgraded rear-end package on the RB8 that featured re-sculpted sidepods and new rear wing endplates, made the most of the new additions to go quickest with a 1m39.335s, 0.131 seconds ahead of Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi. Session one pacesetter Pastor Maldonado (Williams) began the bidding six minutes into the session with a 1m41.133s, but that time was never likely to last long and within a minute Kobayashi had moved ahead in the Sauber. Jenson Button's McLaren then went top with a 1m40.744s before improving that to a 1m40.522s just before the quarter hour mark. Lewis Hamilton quickly moved ahead with a 1m40.397s and that stood for nearly 10 minutes before the rapid-looking Mercedes of Michael Schumacher emerged from the pits and recorded a 1m40.169s. Having set that time, Schumacher was straight on the radio complaining of 'drive' issues. It was not a big problem though, as he was back on track within 10 minutes. As the session crept towards the halfway mark, Button slapped on a set of soft Pirellis and became the first man to dip below 1m40s with a 1m39.990s. That though was put into context when Nico Rosberg eclipsed the time on the eighth lap of his own prime medium tyre run. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso had just moved to the top of the times (1m39.733s), again on softs, when Pedro de la Rosa hit the barriers hard. Having clattered the kerbs at Turn 13, the front-left of the HRT was significantly damaged as it went in front on into the tyres. There was a brief lull as the circuit was cleared before Schumacher emerged from the pits and set a time of 1m39.601s. It was then, finally, that Vettel produced his 1m39.334s flyer, which settled the matter, as teams switched to long-run modes and gathered degradation data. Behind Vettel, Hulkenberg and Kobayashi snuck ahead of Schumacher with two very impressive laps that hinted at the potential for another mixed up grid on Saturday. Bruno Senna was fifth fastest, to further enhance the view that Williams is a contender in Valencia ahead of Hulkenberg's Force India team-mate Paul di Resta. Romain Grosjean was the fastest Lotus driver in seventh ahead of Mark Webber and Rosberg. That meant that both McLaren drivers, Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa all loitered outside the top 10 and the top 15 runners were covered by 0.910s. Tommorrow ( saturday ) will be the 3rd free practice session at 11.00u CET - 12.00u CET , followed at 14.00u CET with the qaulification Kind Regards Shaky-Schumi |
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gp europe practice1
1 18 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:40.890 22 2 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:40.973 0.083 21 3 2 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:40.984 0.094 19 4 3 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:40.994 0.104 19 5 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:41.065 0.175 26 6 11 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:41.105 0.215 15 7 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:41.117 0.227 22 8 4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:41.158 0.268 18 9 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:41.182 0.292 21 10 9 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:41.620 0.730 22 11 10 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:41.784 0.894 15 12 14 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:41.838 0.948 19 13 15 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1:41.861 0.971 16 14 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:42.109 1.219 20 15 12 Jules Bianchi Force India-Mercedes 1:42.175 1.285 21 16 19 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 1:42.299 1.409 24 17 20 Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1:42.442 1.552 26 18 17 Jean-Eric Vergne STR-Ferrari 1:42.758 1.868 27 19 16 Daniel Ricciardo STR-Ferrari 1:42.777 1.887 28 20 21 Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1:43.209 2.319 19 21 25 Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1:44.173 3.283 19 22 22 Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1:44.996 4.106 15 23 23 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1:45.120 4.230 23 24 24 Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1:45.338 4.448 7 |
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tomorrow gp europe free practice timing
Fri 22 June 2012 Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30 Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30 |
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GP Europa - Valencia (street circuit). it will be the 5th edition on this circuit.
Since 2008, the Grand Prix of Europe is held in Valencia. Good place, spectacular location but the track layout designed by Tilke is quite boring. Valencia Street Circuit is a mix of straights, low speed chicanes and hairpins. It is particularly demanding on the brakes with several heavy braking zones; the track is very wide along its entire length. There are 25 corners in total and the circuit passes across a swing bridge which is kept closed during the whole the Grand Prix weekend. As a street circuit, initially the grip will be minimal. However the track will gradually evolve, becoming faster day by day. It's one of the fastest street circuits of the season, but overtakings are very difficult and probably the only chance will be using the DRS. I do not like the DRS because I think it's an unsportsmanlike system, but unfortunately with these cars is necessary. The overtakings on the DRS zone are artificial and often do not leave any chance to the opponent. Moreover this system could become even dangerous, in case of failure. Now aerodynamics (downforce) and tyres are too important, and above all in this season, Pirelli tyres are the key to win or lose the races. In Canada, the Ferrari team did a wrong strategy. When Hamilton did his second pit stop, they took a risk, but only in the following laps, it became clear that was a mistake. Alonso changed his tires on lap 19 (from supersoft-red to sotf-yellow) and did not stop again until the finish line. Instead the same strategy(only one pit stop) was right for Grossjean (he changed from supersoft to soft tires on lap 21). Probably a different tire wear between Ferrari and Lotus, or perhaps the Lotus was able to keep the tyres in the right temperature(a narrow window of a few degrees), while in the final laps Alonso had a great tyre degradation. DRS: unlike last year, next Sunday there will be only one zone between turns 11 and 12. Soft (option, yellow) and medium(prime, white) will be the tyres used in Valencia Podium 2010: Vettel – Hamilton – Button –fastest lap on race: Button – pole position : Vettel 1'37''587 Podium 2011: Vettel – Alonso – Webber – fastest lap on race: Vettel – pole position : Vettel 1'36'975 in the previous four editions Hamilton arrived in second place, three times(2008-2009-2010) in the last two editions always Vettel pole position and win. |
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pepeg wrote:maryna1234 wrote:But I can not congratulate Lewis Hamilton with the victory! I write later! I cannot but congratulate Lewis Hamilton with the victory! And it is especially pleasant Sergio Perez (difficulties with translation) 
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maryna1234 wrote:But I can not congratulate Lewis Hamilton with the victory! Why not? Lewis was the fair winner |
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I am writing to late! But I can not congratulate Lewis Hamilton with the victory! And particularly pleased Sergio Perez!
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wolf1 wrote:pepeg wrote:and again... 7 of 7!!! one time massa also 
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pepeg wrote:and again... 7 of 7!!! Next Schumi PLEASE!!! |
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and again... 7 of 7!!!
Next, please.. Grosjean? Perez? Schumi? Raikkonen? Anyway, I like this game
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wolf1 wrote:And again Schumis Car thats not fair! and what about the strategy of Ferrari? |
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next f1 race
FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE [hidden link - please register] Fri 22 June 2012 Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30 Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30 Sat 23 June 2012 Practice 3 11:00 - 12:00 Qualifying 14:00 Sun 24 June 2012 Race 14:00 |
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And again Schumis Car thats not fair!
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