Germany’s Nico Rosberg, who has yet to transform his practice pace into anything higher than sixth place in a race this season, put Williams on top of the timesheets at the Bahrain Grand Prix today.
Rosberg, son of 1982 champion Keke, lapped the Sakhir circuit in a time of one minute 33.339 seconds. The German has now been quickest in seven of the 11 practice sessions this year.
Renault’s double world champion Fernando Alonso was second fastest in the afternoon.
Current champion Lewis Hamilton had earlier shrugged off the troubles surrounding his McLaren team to clock the quickest time in the morning. Independent
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Italian Jarno Trulli was third fastest ahead of German Sebastian Vettel, last Sunday’s winner for Red Bull in Shanghai, his Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber and Briton Jenson Button, the world championship leader in a Brawn GP car.
German Adrian Sutil was seventh for Force India ahead of German Timo Glock in the second Toyota and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello in the second Brawn as most of the teams used the session for data-gathering rather than outright performance. AFP
Lewis Hamilton was 11th for McLaren, running more new aero parts for a best lap of 1m 33.994s, then came Force India’s Giancarlo Fisichella on 1m 34.025s, the Toro Rossos of Sebastiens Buemi and Bourdais (1m 34.127s and 1m 34.366s respectively) and Renault’s Nelson Piquet on 1m 34.411s for 15th.
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The two Ferrari drivers focused on race running, as did the BMW Sauber pilots and McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen. Felipe Massa was 16th on 1m 34.564s, ahead of Robert Kubica on 1m 34.605s, Kimi Raikkonen on 1m 34.670s, Kovalainen on 1m 34.764s and Nick Heidfeld on 1m 34.790s.
Again it was a relatively undramatic session. Piquet needed a new front wing after damaging the right-hand side of his original in a spin; and Sutil, Hamilton, Glock and trulli all had off-course moments. Formula 1
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