Alonso fastest in wet Istanbul practice
Rosberg second fastest, Vettel crashes.
Fernando Alonso clocked the fastest lap in the first free practice ahead of Sunday’s 2011 Turkish Grand Prix at the Istanbul circuit.
The Spaniard clocked a best time of 1:38.670 (13 laps), beating by 1.402 seconds Mercedes GP’s Nico Rosberg (1:40.072, 14 laps) and by 1.462 Michael Schumacher (1:40.132, 18 laps).
Fourth fastest time in the session for Lotus Renault GP’s Nick Heidfeld (1:40.338, 9 laps), fifth for team-mate Vitaly Petrov (1:40.401, 10 laps), sixth for Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi (1:40.421, 16 laps), seventh for Ferrari’s Felipe Massa (1:40.697, 14 laps), eighth for Toro Rosso’s Daniel Ricciardo (1:41.094, 18 laps), ninth for Sebastien Buemi (1:41.178, 22 laps) and tenth for Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg (1:41.347, 16 laps).
The session was red-flagged for about ten minutes when championship leader Sebastian Vettel touched the wet kerb at the exit of turn 8, spun and crashed into the barriers, damaging the RB7.
2011 Turkish Grand Prix, First free Practice results:
Pos. | No | Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 5 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:38.670 | 13 | |
2 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:40.072 | 1.402 | 14 |
3 | 7 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 1:40.132 | 1.462 | 18 |
4 | 9 | Nick Heidfeld | Renault | 1:40.338 | 1.668 | 9 |
5 | 10 | Vitaly Petrov | Renault | 1:40.401 | 1.731 | 10 |
6 | 16 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:40.421 | 1.751 | 16 |
7 | 6 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:40.697 | 2.027 | 14 |
8 | 19 | Daniel Ricciardo | STR-Ferrari | 1:41.094 | 2.424 | 18 |
9 | 18 | Sebastien Buemi | STR-Ferrari | 1:41.178 | 2.508 | 22 |
10 | 14 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 1:41.347 | 2.677 | 16 |
11 | 2 | Mark Webber | RBR-Renault | 1:42.564 | 3.894 | 5 |
12 | 12 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams-Cosworth | 1:42.597 | 3.927 | 7 |
13 | 15 | Paul di Resta | Force India-Mercedes | 1:43.525 | 4.855 | 11 |
14 | 11 | Rubens Barrichello | Williams-Cosworth | 1:43.913 | 5.243 | 5 |
15 | 21 | Jarno Trulli | Lotus-Renault | 1:43.986 | 5.316 | 6 |
16 | 23 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | HRT-Cosworth | 1:44.787 | 6.117 | 20 |
17 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | RBR-Renault | 1:44.954 | 6.284 | 4 |
18 | 24 | Timo Glock | Virgin-Cosworth | 1:45.183 | 6.513 | 15 |
19 | 25 | Jerome d’Ambrosio | Virgin-Cosworth | 1:45.237 | 6.567 | 11 |
20 | 22 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT-Cosworth | 1:48.461 | 9.791 | 8 |
21 | 20 | Karun Chandhok | Lotus-Renault | 1:51.676 | 13.006 | 6 |
22 | 17 | Sergio Perez | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:55.791 | 17.121 | 13 |
23 | 4 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 2:00.666 | 21.996 | 4 |
24 | 3 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | No time | 1 |