2015 AUSTRALIAN GP: MERCEDES AMG TOO MUCH DOMINANT

Today’s running clearly demonstrated the increase in performance that we had anticipated for the 2015 cars, with the improvement in lap times of about two seconds likely to rise up to three seconds as we go into FP3 and qualifying tomorrow.

FREE PRACTICE ONE

P	DRIVER	TEAM	TIME	LAPS
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:29.557	19
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:29.586	19
3	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	1:30.748	20
4	Carlos Sainz Jr	Toro Rosso	1:31.014	32
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:31.029	13
6	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso	1:31.067	31
7	Felipe Massa	Williams	1:31.188	19
8	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1:31.310	14
9	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	1:31.451	22
10	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	1:31.570	9
11	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull	1:32.073	18
12	Sergio Perez	Force India	1:32.247	22
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1:32.261	19
14	Jenson Button	McLaren	1:34.542	6
15	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren	1:34.785	7
16	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	2:17.782	5

FREE PRACTICE TWO

P	DRIVER	TEAM	TIME	LAPS
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:27.697	29
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:27.797	25
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:28.412	33
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1:28.842	33
5	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	1:29.265	32
6	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull	1:30.016	27
7	Carlos Sainz Jr	Toro Rosso	1:30.071	41
8	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	1:30.104	11
9	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	1:30.205	37
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1:30.473	30
11	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	1:30.755	33
12	Sergio Perez	Force India	1:30.980	32
13	Jenson Button	McLaren	1:31.387	21
14	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso	1:31.395	6
15	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	1:32.303	14
16	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren	1:33.289	4