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Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari SF15-T s/n 312

Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari SF15-T s/n 312

 

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