April 10, 2015

Today, in Free Practice 2...

Today in Shanghai, during the second Free Practice session for the 2015 Chines GP...

A man ran across the track.



Kimi had problems with brakes,



Massa crashed, just a little,





Vettel found the limit of grip.



Mercedes were back in dominant form.



Check out the awesome interactive graphic from Giroveloce.it.   Y is time, X is lap,  you can deselect drivers by clicking on their name at the bottom.

While the author warns tire compound data may not be entirely correct (the F1 app, as usual, did not work properly)  you can get a sense of who managed to to do long runs and their relative pace.
Keep in mind there were interruptions due to the loony tunes crossing the track and Massa and Kvyat going off.

So Hamilton was able to to an 8 lap stint on options with a 1 second delta while Rosberg did 13 laps on primes with the same delta, start to finish.



In the Ferrari camp, looks like Vettel was not able to complete any long runs while Raikkonen was able to do 19 laps on primes.





PosDriverCarTimeGapLaps
1Lewis HamiltonMercedes1m37.219s-32
2Kimi RaikkonenFerrari1m37.662s0.443s35
3Daniel RicciardoRed Bull/Renault1m38.311s1.092s24
4Sebastian VettelFerrari1m38.339s1.120s30
5Nico RosbergMercedes1m38.399s1.180s35
6Daniil KvyatRed Bull/Renault1m38.737s1.518s10
7Valtteri BottasWilliams/Mercedes1m38.850s1.631s27
8Felipe NasrSauber/Ferrari1m39.032s1.813s26
9Romain GrosjeanLotus/Mercedes1m39.142s1.923s32
10Jenson ButtonMcLaren/Honda1m39.275s2.056s29
11Pastor MaldonadoLotus/Mercedes1m39.444s2.225s30
12Fernando AlonsoMcLaren/Honda1m39.743s2.524s27
13Marcus EricssonSauber/Ferrari1m39.751s2.532s33
14Max VerstappenToro Rosso/Renault1m39.894s2.675s32
15Carlos SainzToro Rosso/Renault1m39.971s2.752s28
16Nico HulkenbergForce India/Mercedes1m40.151s2.932s28
17Felipe MassaWilliams/Mercedes1m40.423s3.204s7
18Sergio PerezForce India/Mercedes1m40.868s3.649s24
19Roberto MerhiMarussia/Ferrari1m42.973s5.754s27
20Will StevensMarussia/Ferrari1m44.564s7.345s8

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