Saturday, May 13, 2006
# posted by Rich @ 4:33 AM
Spain Friday second practice: report
Yaaaaaaawn. Yeah, and not just because it is on at 8am my time. The session was really boring frankly (as was the first practice session, which is untelevised). In the case of first practice it was because so few people ran (9), although Massa set an astonishingly fast time of 1:15.796.
Second practice saw everyone do at least one lap. As expected, the Friday drivers were fastest, with Davidson top of the time sheets again. Behind him, in a rather unexpected second place, was Robert Doornbos in the Red Bull. The fastest race driver was Alonso in third place, who ended up 3 tenths faster than Michael who was 6th fastest overall.
The only notable things were that several drivers got "slideways", as they say over here, in the tight turn 7 chicane, and that Kimi Raikkonen ran almost no laps at all. Indeed, the general paucity of laps can be atribuited to the fact that the teams test at Barcelona quite frequently, and thus probably don't need that much practice.
One moderately amusing incident came towards the end of the session when, somehow, the left rear view mirror of Montoya's McLaren came loose and fell in his cockpit. His solution to this problem was to throw the offending item out on the main straight! Speaking of McLaren, Steve Matchett seemed taken aback by the team's attire: "What's up with the McLaren team's trousers, they look like they are made out of bubble wrap". I didn't see what he was getting at myself...
So yeah, that was Friday practice. Let's hope qualifying is more interesting!
Second practice saw everyone do at least one lap. As expected, the Friday drivers were fastest, with Davidson top of the time sheets again. Behind him, in a rather unexpected second place, was Robert Doornbos in the Red Bull. The fastest race driver was Alonso in third place, who ended up 3 tenths faster than Michael who was 6th fastest overall.
The only notable things were that several drivers got "slideways", as they say over here, in the tight turn 7 chicane, and that Kimi Raikkonen ran almost no laps at all. Indeed, the general paucity of laps can be atribuited to the fact that the teams test at Barcelona quite frequently, and thus probably don't need that much practice.
One moderately amusing incident came towards the end of the session when, somehow, the left rear view mirror of Montoya's McLaren came loose and fell in his cockpit. His solution to this problem was to throw the offending item out on the main straight! Speaking of McLaren, Steve Matchett seemed taken aback by the team's attire: "What's up with the McLaren team's trousers, they look like they are made out of bubble wrap". I didn't see what he was getting at myself...
So yeah, that was Friday practice. Let's hope qualifying is more interesting!
Labels: Formula 1, Grand Prix, Spain
If the fonts on this page look blocky and naff, it's probably because you are using Internet Explorer, which currently does not display antialiased (cleartype) fonts consistently when alpha transparency is used. I suggest you upgrade to Safari, Camino, Opera, or Firefox. While you're at it, get a Mac.
