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The weather was nice and dry for this session but was halted only 30-ish minutes in due to Felipe Massa losing control of the car at Stowe and smashing into the wall. Although unhurt, his session was ended there. He also had a similar incident last year at the same spot.
Susie Wolff who drove in place of Valtteri Bottas for this session was eager to show her talent. But her run was ended after only 4 laps due to a "Oil Pressure" issue. Basically.. The engine was failing. She is not too disappointed as she will get to run again in FP1 for the German GP in a few weeks.
Car troubles also halted Pastor Maldonado who was told to turn his car off after heading down pit-lane. He was pushed back into the garages and never came back out. He was the only driver to not set a time. But Pastor wasn't the only one with car troubles as Robin Frijns who was taking the place of Kamui Kobayashi this session in the Caterham, had issues as well and was in the garage for most of the session. Luckily, the Caterham team got the car up and running with 14 minutes left in the session.
Both Marcus Ericsson and Sebastian Vettel took turns ending up in the grass throughout the session, while Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez had some steering issues. One man who had no troubles was Daniel Juncadella who was in for Nico Hulkenberg. He racked up a huge amount of laps and managed to do fairly well. So, lets get on to the times.
TIME SHEET:
1. Nico Rosberg - 1:35.424 / Mercedes-Mercedes
2. Lewis Hamilton - 1:36.155 / Mercedes-Mercedes
3. Fernando Alonso - 1:36.263 / Ferrari-Ferrari
4. Daniel Ricciardo - 1:36.623 / Red Bull-Renault
5. Kimi Raikkonen - 1:36.703 / Ferrari-Ferrari
6. Sebastian Vettel - 1:36.921 / Red Bull-Renault
7. Jenson Button - 1:36.963 / McLaren-Mercedes
8. Daniil Kvyat - 1:37.175 / Toro Rosso-Renault
9. Jean-Eric Vergne - 1:37.227 / Toro Rosso-Renault
10. Kevin Magnussen - 1:37.231 / McLaren-Mercedes
11. Sergio Perez - 1:37.720 / Force India-Mercedes
12. Romain Grosjean - 1:37.910 / Lotus-Renault
13. Esteban Gutierrez - 1:38.056 / Sauber-Ferrari
14. Daniel Juncadella (R) - 1:38.083 / Force India-Mercedes
15. Giedo Van Der Garde (R) - 1:38.328 / Sauber-Ferrari
16. Jules Bianchi - 1:38.917 / Marussia-Ferrari
17. Felipe Massa - 1:39.461 / Williams-Mercedes
18. Max Chilton - 1:39.814 / Marussia-Ferrari
19. Marcus Ericsson - 1:40.597 / Caterham-Renault
20. Robin Frijns (R) - 1:42.261 / Caterham-Renault
21. Susie Wolff (R) - 1:44.212 / Williams-Mercedes
22. Pastor Maldonado - No Time Set / Lotus-Renault
(R) = Driver is a reserve and took part in the respective session.
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