2014 Formula 1 season has just started on Albert Park circuit in Melbourne. In first two sessions the fastest were Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton. Red Bull managed to make quite good number of laps and the biggest problems had Lotus.
During the first session Lotus made only 2 laps – both by Pastor Maldonado. Lewis Hamilton has done only one lap after his Mercedes failure same as Kamui Kobayashi and Marcus Ericsson (both Caterham).
Red Bull drivers – Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel have done 36 laps and scored 5th and 7th place. The fastest was Alonso with 1:31.840s and then we had Jenson Button, Valtteri Bottas nad Felipe Massa.
Here are the results of FP1:
1. Fernando Alonso – Ferrari 1:31.840s. (20)
2. Jenson Button – McLaren 1:32.357s. (23)
3. Valtteri Bottas – Williams 1:32.403s. (27)
4. Felipe Massa – Williams 1:32.431s. (19)
5. Daniel Ricciardo – Red Bull 1:32.599s. (26)
6. Nico Rosberg – Mercedes 1:32.604s. (17)
7. Sebastian Vettel – Red Bull 1:32.793s. (10)
8. Kevin Magnussen – McLaren 1:32.847s. (28)
9. Kimi Raikkonen – Ferrari 1:32.977s. (18)
10. Jean-Eric Vergne – Toro Rosso 1:33.446s. (30)
11. Nico Hulkenberg – Force India 1:33.533s. (23)
12. Sergio Perez – Force India 1:33.855s. (24)
13. Daniil Kvyat – Toro Rosso 1:34.272s. (27)
14. Esteban Gutierrez – Sauber 1:35.578s. (7)
15. Adrian Sutil – Sauber 1:36.445s. (13)
16. Jules Bianchi – Marussia 1:40.859s. (6)
17. Max Chilton – Marussia 1:46.922s. (4)
18. Marcus Ericsson – Caterham (1)
19. Lewis Hamilton – Mercedes (1)
20. Kamui Kobayashi – Caterham (1)
21. Pastor Maldonado – Lotus (2)
22. Romain Grosjean – Lotus (0)
In second FP times were much better than in FP1 and the fastest was Lewis Hamilton who had 1:29,625. On the second place was Nico Rosberg and then was Alonso. Sebastian Vettel was a driver with highest number of laps in this session – 41. Another problems had Lotus – Maldonado didn`t make any lap and Grosjean did only 12.
Here are the results of FP2:
1. Lewis Hamilton – Mercedes 1:29.625s. (37)
2. Nico Rosberg – Mercedes 1:29.782s. (31)
3. Fernando Alonso – Ferrari 1:30.132s. (28)
4. Sebastian Vettel – Red Bull 1:30.381s. (41)
5. Jenson Button – McLaren 1:30.510s. (33)
6. Daniel Ricciardo – Red Bull 1:30.538s. (38)
7. Kimi Raikkonen – Ferrari 1:30.898s. (32)
8. Valtteri Bottas – Williams 1:30.920s. (38)
9. Kevin Magnussen – McLaren 1:31.031s. (34)
10. Nico Hulkenberg – Force India 1:31.054s. (33)
11. Jean-Eric Vergne – Toro Rosso 1:31.060s. (35)
12. Felipe Massa – Williams 1:31.119s. (31)
13. Sergio Perez – Force India 1:31.283s. (6)
14. Adrian Sutil – Sauber 1:32.355s. (36)
15. Esteban Gutierrez – Sauber 1:32.468s. (26)
16. Daniil Kvyat – Toro Rosso 1:32.495s. (36)
17. Jules Bianchi – Marussia 1:33.486s. (29)
18. Romain Grosjean – Lotus 1:33.646s. (12)
19. Max Chilton – Marussia 1:34.757s. (29)
20. Marcus Ericsson – Caterham (1)
21. Pastor Maldonado – Lotus (0)
22. Kamui Kobayashi – Caterham (0)
