Wet Australian GP Practice Sessions Limit Conclusions About Relative Performance

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Published: March 18, 2016

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The 2016 Formula One season started off with a splash—literally—on Friday in Melbourne, Australia. Rain throughout both free practice sessions severely limited the amount of running by all teams, building the suspense for qualifying on Saturday.

After weeks of cautioning that we couldn't really tell much about the running order from pre-season testing, everyone was hoping Friday practice would start to answer some questions. The wet weather put paid to most of those hopes.

Any Ferrari fans (or just fans pining for a championship not decided by the summer break) hoping to see the Italian team close the gap to Mercedes at the front of the grid will be discouraged by the practice times we did see, though.



On a drying track in the first session, Lewis Hamilton managed a time of one minute, 29.725 seconds, the only sub-1:30 lap of the day. Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat was the only driver within one second of Hamilton's best time, at 1:30.146.

By comparison, Mercedes' Nico Rosberg set the fastest time a year ago in the first free practice session at 1:29.557 in dry conditions.

Despite the limited running, Hamilton seemed pleased with his performance. Afterward, per a team press release, he said:

That was a good day. The car performed well and although we didn’t get a huge number of laps in, they were still quite constructive sessions. I was lucky to get a couple of dry laps to get a tiny feeling for what the balance is like around here, which was down to some good work from the team to time my runs right. 

Neither Ferrari driver set a competitive time in FP1, and McLaren's Jenson Button managed the most laps, with just 16. Twelve drivers, including Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, completed fewer than 10 laps in the early session.

The weather for the second practice session was even worse, with everyone remaining on intermediate tyres for the duratio...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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