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Friday, September 9, 2011

2011 ITALIAN GP: McLaren unreachable on FP1

McLaren fastest team in Monza!!!

McLaren had a perfect start to the Italian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of the first free training at Monza and was nearly a second faster than team-mate Jenson Button, who was second fastest car this morning with the second McLaren. Vettel was third fastest with almost 1.5 seconds behind Hamilton and two tenths faster than team-mate Mark Webber who drove the fourth fastest time.

Sutil with Force India and Petrov with Renault on 5th and 6th position. Next on timesheets were Ferrari cars, unusually weak and had a relatively quiet training and Fernando Alonso sat out last 15 minutes of training i his garage. It is rumored that his engine will be changed. The Ferrari drivers compared two types of front wings during the session, so may have a different level of fuel acording much faster McLaren and Red Bull cars. But time will tell where they are now. 

Pos     Driver                  Team              Time        Gap    Laps
 1.  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes      1m23.865s            18
 2.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes      1m24.786s  + 0.921   19
 3.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault      1m25.231s  + 1.366   25
 4.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault      1m25.459s  + 1.594   24
 5.  Adrian Sutil          Force India-Mercedes  1m26.550s  + 2.685   23
 6.  Vitaly Petrov         Renault               1m26.625s  + 2.760   20
 7.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari               1m26.647s  + 2.782   20
 8.  Felipe Massa          Ferrari               1m26.676s  + 2.811   24
 9.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari        1m26.694s  + 2.829   28
10.  Jaime Alguersuari     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m26.696s  + 2.831   15
11.  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes              1m26.699s  + 2.834   21
12.  Nico Hulkenberg       Force India-Mercedes  1m26.826s  + 2.961   21
13.  Rubens Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth     1m26.836s  + 2.971   25
14.  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari        1m26.996s  + 3.131   29
15.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Cosworth     1m27.365s  + 3.500   25
16.  Bruno Senna           Renault               1m27.385s  + 3.520   23
17.  Sebastien Buemi       Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m27.433s  + 3.568   25
18.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes              1m27.492s  + 3.627   24
19.  Heikki Kovalainen     Lotus-Renault         1m29.539s  + 5.674   10
20.  Karun Chandhok        Lotus-Renault         1m30.148s  + 6.283   19
21.  Daniel Ricciardo      HRT-Cosworth          1m30.609s  + 6.744   27
22.  Tonio Liuzzi          HRT-Cosworth          1m30.619s  + 6.754   24
23.  Timo Glock            Virgin-Cosworth       1m31.052s  + 7.187   12
24.  Jerome D'Ambrosio     Virgin-Cosworth       1m31.899s  + 8.034   22