F1 : Australia Practice 1
Written by Ashleigh Charlesworth   
Friday, 14 March 2008

Practice session one showed us a few interesting things.


The first session from Australia has just come to a close, and interesting it was.

The times do not really indicate on the first session, as the fastest driver is 2 seconds shy of the 2004 lap record and a second off Kimi’s qualifying time from last year. No the interest comes from watching what the drivers and teams got up to and struggled with.

Almost all the drivers had moments during the session, even the big guns got the cars out of line, and had big moments over the grass, or on entry to fast corners.

Also we saw the first Red Bull failure, David Coulthard’s car caught fire, and had to be limped back to the pits for it to be put out.

Nick Heidfelds BMW suffered a failure as well on the track, and forced him to make his own way back to the pits.

The two Williams cars only ran 3 laps each and were the last two cars on the timesheets with Niko not even classifying as setting a time, the Super Aguri cars did not do much better with only 7 under their belts sitting 19th and 20th.

Webber ran a decent time to make him 5th fastest 1.8 seconds behind Kimi, Lewis, Filipe and Heikki. (all within a second of each other)

Alonso was only just behind Webber, followed closely by Rober Kubica and Timo Glock, Sebastian Vettel and Jarno Trulli.

Jenson managed to drop in just behind Trulli with a time 2.6 seconds off the front runner, with Giancarlo just behind him in the Force India.

 

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