Singapore GP: Free Practice 1 - Re-Cap & Results

Free Practice 1 - Re-Cap & Results:

We are now officially one session into the Singapore Grand Prix weekend. The session started out with a beautiful sunset before turning into night event that it is. There were a few interesting things going on, including Rosberg grabbing his loose right mirror from the frame, and throwing the piece of glass on to the circuit. Not sure if that will be investegated later on.

Esteban Gutierrez sat out all but 20 minutes of this session unwillingly, due to a Control Unit issue, which Sauber luckily and promptly fixed, allowing the young driver to complete enough laps to land him the 16th slot on the time-sheets.

3 more unlucky drivers were Kimi Raikkonen, who endured a brake fire late in the session, Jean-Eric Vergne who had some brake problems as well and then Sebastian Vettel who had to pull his car off at the pit-lane entry after his last lap with what he reported was an Engine Failure.

Fernando Alonso broke a streak of Mercedes being 1-2 for 7 consecutive FP1 sessions in a row.

Here are the times from the session.

TIMES:

1. Fernando Alonso - 1:49.056 / Ferrari-Ferrari

2. Lewis Hamilton - 1:49.178 / Mercedes-Mercedes

3. Nico Rosberg - 1:49.205 / Mercedes-Mercedes

4. Sebastian Vettel - 1:49.874 / Red Bull-Renault

5. Daniel Ricciardo - 1:50.122 / Red Bull-Renault

6. Jean-Eric Vergne - 1:50.539 / Toro Rosso-Renault

7. Kimi Raikkonen - 1:50.783 / Ferrari-Ferrari

8. Jenson Button - 1:50.922 / McLaren-Mercedes

9. Daniil Kvyat - 1:50.990 / Toro Rosso-Renault

10. Sergio Perez - 1:51.131 / Force India-Mercedes

11. Kevin Magnussen - 1:51.217 / McLaren-Mercedes

12. Nico Hulkenberg - 1:51.604 / Force India-Mercedes

13. Felipe Massa - 1:51.953 / Williams-Mercedes

14. Pastor Maldonado - 1:52.125 / Lotus-Renault

15. Valtteri Bottas - 1:52.146 / Williams-Mercedes

16. Esteban Gutierrez - 1:52.171 / Sauber-Ferrari

17. Adrian Sutil - 1:52.237 / Sauber-Ferrari

18. Romain Grosjean - 1:52.906 / Lotus-Renault

19. Jules Bianchi - 1:54.113 / Marussia-Ferrari

20. Marcus Ericsson - 1:54.475 / Caterham-Renault

21. Kamui Kobayashi - 1:54.607 / Caterham-Renault

22. Max Chilton - 1:55.170 / Marussia-Ferrari

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Article Written By: Amy Hawk.

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