Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari SF15-T s/n 312 |
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Sepang, 27 March, 2015
Weather air 35/36 °C track 51/56°C Sunny
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Kimi Raikkonen “Today we did all we were supposed to do. In the morning the feeling with the car was better, in the afternoon was a bit more tricky, we had some handling issues and some problems with the wind and the heat, but the laptime were not so bad. Unluckily we had red flag when we went out with new softer tyres.The car is still not perfect, but I’m sure we can improve for tomorrow. We have some work to do on the set up to make everything easier, but we’ll do our best and we’ll see where we end up in qualifying”.
Sebastian Vettel “All in all it was a decent day. It was quite hot and slippery, which makes it difficult for the cars to work with the tyres. I am not entirely happy with myself, I was pushing too much, but it didn’t work out in the end and I spun. But if you have to choose a day where you want to try things, you choose the Friday. It will be close between us and Williams, and probably Red Bull as well. Mercedes didn’t have a clean day but is still very strong. But we have to look now after ourselves”.
Lewis Hamilton It was an amazing job by the guys to get me back out this afternoon – particularly here in such tough conditions, so I’m very grateful to them. It’s not an easy track and the temperatures also make it difficult with the tyres, so it never helps to lose such a big chunk of a session. But fortunately I got a few laps in at the end on a longer stint. In terms of setup I didn’t have time to make any changes – I just went with what we brought over from the last race. It’s probably quite a bit off where I’ll eventually want it so there’s definitely improvements to be made. We’ll need to work hard too as Ferrari looked great out there. It will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow.
Nico Rosberg I had a good morning session but I didn’t get it right with the option tyres in the afternoon, so I need to find out why that was. In general it was a difficult day for the team as we had reliability issues on Lewis' car and which meant he missed a session. The conditions are really crazy out there. It's so hot, the temperatures are really unbelievable. So us drivers and the cars have to adapt to that which is a big challenge. We also learned that Ferrari is strong again so it will be an interesting weekend.
Toto Wolff A mixed day for us. Nico had a difficult stint on the medium tyres with a lack of grip and his longer run was tricky too. Lewis lost track time with the engine problem, so it’s another reminder for us to keep our feet on the ground and keep working. In this business, winning and losing is decided by fine margins. The team and Lewis did a great job to recover, so we could collect some good data with both cars. Now we need to analyse the performance, ensure reliability and make good choices for tomorrow and Sunday.
Paddy Lowe Not an easy day. On Lewis’ car we had a failure of the inlet system on the Power Unit. We also had a problem with the telemetry on his car that wasn’t solved until just before the end of P2. This made managing the issue on his car doubly difficult – but the team did a fantastic job to repair the car. Nico had a less troublesome day – running through his programme smoothly. We have a lot of work to do overnight to improve the setup of the cars and understand the issues we had and fix them for the race.
1st Free Practice Pos. | Driver | Team | Chassis # | Time | Laps | 1. | N. Rosberg | Mercedes | F1 W06 Hybrid /04 | 01:40.124 | 20 | 2. | K. Raikkonen | Ferrari | 312 | 01:40.497 | 17 | 3. | S. Vettel | Ferrari | 311 | 01:40.985 | 13 | 4. | R. Grosjean | Lotus | | 01:41.543 | 14 | 5. | C. Sainz Jr. | Toro Rosso | | 01:41.596 | 26 | 6. | D. Ricciardo | Red Bull | | 01:41.787 | 15 | 7. | M. Verstappen | Toro Rosso | | 01:41.803 | 23 | 8. | V. Bottas | Williams | | 01:41.882 | 23 | 9. | D. Kvyat | Red Bull | | 01:42.055 | 18 | 10. | M. Ericsson | Sauber | | 01:42.064 | 16 | 11. | F. Massa | Williams | | 01:42.103 | 23 | 12. | P. Maldonado | Lotus | | 01:42.567 | 19 | 13. | R. Marciello | Sauber | | 01:42.621 | 13 | 14. | F. Alonso | McLaren | | 01:42.885 | 20 | 15. | N. Hulkenberg | Force India | | 01:42.893 | 13 | 16. | S. Perez | Force India | | 01:43.054 | 15 | 17. | J. Button | McLaren | | 01:43.100 | 19 | 18. | W. Stevens | Manor | | 01:46.686 | 8 | 19. | R. Merhi | Manor | | 01:47.683 | 8 | 20. | L. Hamilton | Mercedes | F1 W06 Hybrid /01 | no time | 4 |
2nd Free Practice
Pos. | Driver | Team | Chassis # | Time | Laps | 1. | L. Hamilton | Mercedes | F1 W06 Hybrid /01 | 01:39.790 | 16 | 2. | K. Raikkonen | Ferrari | 312 | 01:40.163 | 29 | 3. | N. Rosberg | Mercedes | F1 W06 Hybrid /04 | 01:40.218 | 26 | 4. | D. Kvyat | Red Bull | | 01:40.346 | 17 | 5. | V. Bottas | Williams | | 01:40.450 | 31 | 6. | F. Massa | Williams | | 01:40.560 | 27 | 7. | S. Vettel | Ferrari | 311 | 01:40.652 | 29 | 8. | M. Verstappen | Toro Rosso | | 01:41.220 | 30 | 9. | M. Ericsson | Sauber | | 01:41.261 | 30 | 10. | D. Ricciardo | Red Bull | | 01:41.799 | 8 | 11. | P. Maldonado | Lotus | | 01:41.877 | 15 | 12. | F. Nasr | Sauber | | 01:41.988 | 30 | 13. | S. Perez | Force India | | 01:42.242 | 24 | 14. | C. Sainz Jr. | Toro Rosso | | 01:42.291 | 31 | 15. | N. Hulkenberg | Force India | | 01:42.330 | 28 | 16. | F. Alonso | McLaren | | 01:42.506 | 25 | 17. | J. Button | McLaren | | 01:42.637 | 24 | 18. | R. Grosjean | Lotus | | 01:42.948 | 7 | 19. | W. Stevens | Manor | | 01:45.704 | 12 | 20. | R. Merhi | Manor | | 01:47.229 | 6 |
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