Italian F1 Grand Prix 2016 Qualifying: Results, Times from Friday’s Practice

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Published: September 2, 2016

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Mercedes continued to dominate at the Italian Grand Prix on Friday, with Lewis Hamilton finishing ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg in second practice.

Hamilton posted a time of one minute, 22.801 seconds in his qualifying simulation to pip Rosberg in the afternoon runs. Sebastian Vettel gave the Italian fans something to cheer, coming home third for Ferrari.

The two Silver Arrows were comfortably quickest in the morning Monza, with Rosberg snatching top spot with a time of 1:22.959. Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was the third-quickest in FP1.

Here’s a look at the standings following the two practice sessions and a recap of how the action panned out in Italy.

 

FP2 Recap The Formula One Twitter feed provided the standings from the afternoon session, as Mercedes preserved their stranglehold at Monza:



First practice painted an ominous picture for the rest of the field on Friday morning, with the Mercedes drivers comfortably ahead of the chasers. It’s a trend that continued in FP2, with Hamilton and Rosberg again standing out as the dominant forces.

Encouragingly for the Italian fans, Ferrari are set to be their closest contenders, and they did at least chop down the gap to the Silver Arrows in second practice.

After Raikkonen was third-fastest in the morning, the afternoon saw Vettel flex his muscles around this iconic circuit. As we can see here, via F1, the German had time to give his thanks to the assembled mass of Ferrari fans too:



He also posted an impressive time to usurp his team-mate and temporarily split the Mercedes pairing.

In what was an otherwise incident-free session, Manor’s Esteban Ocon, who made his full F1 debut at Spa last weekend, suffered a mechanical problem, grinding to a halt. As this snap from F1 shows, he didn’t stop in the most ideal of places, triggering a virtual safety car ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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