Vettel quickest in first Monaco practice
Alonso second fastest, Rosberg third.
Sebastian Vettel clocked the fastest lap in the first free practice ahead of Sunday’s 2011 Monaco Grand Prix at the Monte-Carlo street circuit.
The German clocked a best time of 1:16.619 (25 laps), beating by 0.113 seconds Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso (1:16.732, 24 laps) and by 0.520 Mercedes GP’s Nico Rosberg (1:17.139, 20 laps).
Fourth fastest time in the session for Felipe Massa in the other Ferrari (1:17.316), fifth and sixth respectively for Lewis Hamilton (1:17.350) and Jenson Button in the McLaren (1:17.534), seventh for William’s Pastor Maldonado (1:18.527), eighth for Force India’s Adrian Sutil (1:18.578), ninth for Lotus Renault’s Vitaly Petrov (1:18.733) and tenth for Michael Schumacher (1:18.805) who had a crash at the Ste Devote run-off area in the final minutes.
Last place with no time set for Mark Webber in the other Red Bull after a gearbox failure during the first half of the session.
The session was red-flagged for about five minutes when repairs had to be made on the pit straight due to a water leak coming from a pipe under the track.
2011 Monaco Grand Prix, First free Practice results:
Pos. | No | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
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1 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | RBR-Renault | 1:16.619 | 25 | |
2 | 5 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:16.732 | 0.113 | 24 |
3 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:17.139 | 0.520 | 20 |
4 | 6 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:17.316 | 0.697 | 24 |
5 | 3 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:17.350 | 0.731 | 23 |
6 | 4 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:17.534 | 0.915 | 24 |
7 | 12 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams-Cosworth | 1:18.527 | 1.908 | 30 |
8 | 14 | Adrian Sutil | Force India-Mercedes | 1:18.578 | 1.959 | 24 |
9 | 10 | Vitaly Petrov | Renault | 1:18.733 | 2.114 | 16 |
10 | 7 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 1:18.805 | 2.186 | 14 |
11 | 9 | Nick Heidfeld | Renault | 1:18.928 | 2.309 | 19 |
12 | 18 | Sebastien Buemi | STR-Ferrari | 1:19.234 | 2.615 | 24 |
13 | 11 | Rubens Barrichello | Williams-Cosworth | 1:19.395 | 2.776 | 24 |
14 | 19 | Daniel Ricciardo | STR-Ferrari | 1:19.463 | 2.844 | 25 |
15 | 16 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:19.768 | 3.149 | 25 |
16 | 17 | Sergio Perez | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:19.792 | 3.173 | 26 |
17 | 20 | Heikki Kovalainen | Lotus-Renault | 1:20.083 | 3.464 | 23 |
18 | 21 | Jarno Trulli | Lotus-Renault | 1:21.116 | 4.497 | 27 |
19 | 15 | Paul di Resta | Force India-Mercedes | 1:21.548 | 4.929 | 32 |
20 | 25 | Jerome d’Ambrosio | Virgin-Cosworth | 1:21.758 | 5.139 | 31 |
21 | 24 | Timo Glock | Virgin-Cosworth | 1:21.815 | 5.196 | 17 |
22 | 23 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | HRT-Cosworth | 1:22.840 | 6.221 | 13 |
23 | 22 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT-Cosworth | 1:23.885 | 7.266 | 37 |
24 | 2 | Mark Webber | RBR-Renault | No time | 3 |