Friday Free Practice

[Mark Webber]

Originally posted by devil racer nz
Davidson and Zonta did pretty well. Best of the rest

While there times are good there very misleading when you put their times against their regular GP team mates which shows a clearer picture of where they are

[Trevor P]

Check out who has done only a few laps (expect blow-ups in Sunday), and who may be running light fuel (Zonta, Davidson, who did 21 laps - not worried about engine life are they?).
My guess is that Zonta and Davidson did the light fuel tests and Button the heavy fuel test. About 1 sec difference.
McLarens both only ran few laps - blow up on Sunday again for at elast one of them (whoever is leading the other at half way - if the slow McLaren is many seconds behind he may finish the race, but probably in tenth place again).
Jaguars again did only a few laps. Webber did a great job, but I think he wants the performance clause in his contract to come into play so he'll thrash the Jag.
Williams again are their own worst enemies with no team orders and equal speeds - I guess both cars ran similar fuel loads and tyre specs. Doesn't seem smart to me to send both cars out the same at the same time.
BAR covered a few laps, likely at race spec, but Sato is a dead loss and no help to the car.
Renault sent their cars out in race trim, but their test cars must have had similar specs.
Who else matters?

[Mark Webber]

button did less laps then Webber ?

[Sato san]

Davidson has really impressed again i think ...In Melbourne he was quick in the 1st session on a track he didnt know , and now again in Sepang ....I hope the right people take notice of this young guy , If Jenson was to leave BAR , Davidson more than deserves a race seat .

[Led ZeppF1]

Free Practice II was begin.

Alonso is quickest: 1'35"341

[Led ZeppF1]

Williams now is quickest:

1. 4 R.SCHUMACHER Williams BMW M 1'34"693 210.732 Km/h 9
2. 3 MONTOYA Williams BMW M 1'35"100 + 0'00"407

[Mark Webber]

Kimmi's on a charge 1.35.023

[Mark Webber]

2 cars down DaMatta & Davdson

[Mark Webber]

GO WEBBER into 3rd 1.35.054

[twig]

R Schumacher is 2 tenths off Michaels "blisteringly fast lap" which "smashed" the lap record earlier.

[Led ZeppF1]

I just wondering is Ferrari just slow, or they dont push the car?:confused:

[Red]

1  1  Michael Schumacher Ferrari    1:34.437    
2  2  Rubens Barrichello Ferrari    1:35.380    
3  35  Anthony Davidson BAR-Honda    1:35.970    
4  38  Ricardo Zonta Toyota    1:36.147    
5  4  Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW    1:36.229    
6  6  Kimi Räikkönen  McLaren-Mercedes    1:36.314    
7  14  Mark Webber Jaguar-Cosworth    1:36.478    
8  3  Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW    1:36.606    
9  9  Jenson Button BAR-Honda    1:37.018    
10  8  Fernando Alonso  Renault    1:37.119    
11  5  David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes    1:37.438    
12  17  Olivier Panis Toyota    1:37.590    
13  7  Jarno Trulli Renault    1:37.816    
14  11  Giancarlo Fisichella Sauber-Petronas    1:37.995    
15  10  Takuma Sato BAR-Honda    1:38.023    
17  15  Christian Klien Jaguar-Cosworth    1:38.554    
18  16  Cristiano da Matta Toyota    1:38.734    
19  39  Bjorn Wirdheim Jaguar-Cosworth    1:38.788    
20  18  Nick Heidfeld Jordan-Ford    1:38.831    
21  19  Giorgio Pantano Jordan-Ford    1:39.860    
22  20  Gianmaria Bruni Minardi-Cosworth    1:41.149    
23  21  Zsolt Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth    1:42.556    
24  12  Felipe Massa Sauber-Petronas    1:42.718    
25  40  Bas Leinders Minardi-Cosworth    1:43.424

Yeah, they can do better

PS: Yay for Honda!!

[Led ZeppF1]

Or, MS/RB is sandbaging with a boatload of fuel?:confused:

[Mark Webber]

track temp is climbing alot now 51deg and the times are showing it

[Led ZeppF1]

Woohooo KIMI. He did 1'34"395.

[twig]

Well, end of the session, finally, Raikkonen on top with a new lap record.

[Led ZeppF1]

Well done, MICHELIN.

[Adam43]

Thread closed. As this was more of a chatty type while the session was running. The new thread has been started with Led's session times, for more discussion and to allow people to get into it. Thanks
http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=51774