Due to time zone difference at present formula 1 pilots have already managed to place and morning and afternoon session Friday free practice before the opening season, the Australian Grand Prix. If, after uneven results winter tests someone expecting surprises and breakouts, then it must be seriously disappointed: Mercedes spent practice as on notes and not podpustil to imagine nearly any opponent.
Both the final Protocol was headed by Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton backlog did not exceed 0.1 seconds. Moreover, the German improved the last Friday's record by almost one and a half seconds, his best time today amounted to 1:27, 697. The best of the rest — Ferrari, with Sebastian Vettel both times fairly seriously ahead of his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.
The fifth result of the day - Valtteri Bottas (Williams), for the sixth say a big thank you to the Russian Daniil Kvyat, the speaker this year at Red Bull. Also in the top 10 of the best pilots on Friday entered the freshman Carlos Sainz Jr (Toro Rosso), Pastor Maldonado and Roman Grosjean (both Lotus and Nico Hulkenberg at Force India.
Unfortunately, McLaren-Honda was not able to solve all the problems with the new power plant: the first session had to be terminated, the second machine Button lost power, and as a result best result is not up to the leader's time is almost 3.7 seconds. In this scenario, even to get tomorrow need to start 107% of the pole position will not be easy...
Well, two teams not accepted today participate in free practice. Manor (former Marussia) are not ready technically and Sauber can't decide what to do with requiring their rightful place Guido van der garde. Monisha Kaltenborn all day was unavailable for comment, but on the track as a result not left by any one of the three pilots of the team.
So, the Grand Prix of Australia, and with it the 2015 season started. Grab a seat at the TV and have a nice weekend!