Malaysian GP 2014 Friday and Saturday practice thread

[EL_NANDO]

After all the various rumours since Melbourne, let's see what we can do!

Wasn't so long ago people were suggesting (or praying) we were using different timing points in Bahrain testing to disguise our incredible pace.

[Kyss4k]

I was just making one as well

Here are times (UK) and streams:

Fri:
FP1 - 1:45
FP2 - 5:45

Sat:
FP3 - 4:45

Sky Sports:
http://www.vipboxeu.co/motorsports/2...am-online.html

BBC:
http://www.vipboxeu.co/motorsports/2...am-online.html

[shamim179]

Malaysia should be more revealing. Too many rumors and reports flying around with conflicting views.

I believe we are in better shape than we look. Hopefully, we'll be bringing in some updates. Now's the time to do that with these two upcoming back to back races.

[EL_NANDO]

Malaysia should be more revealing. Too many rumors and reports flying around with conflicting reports.

I believe we are in better shape than we look. Hopefully, we'll be bringing in some updates. Now's the time to do that with these two upcoming back to back races.

I agree, from the team it sounds as though they can get the car working better and are optimistic of having better performance this weekend. I don't really believe the rumours about still having 18kg of fuel at the end or whatever it was, or our ERS not working for some laps. However I'm pretty sure there are some areas like braking and ERS the team can improve. Pretty much for the same reason McLaren are hoping for this half-second improvement, just because a lot of the car systems aren't optimised that well.

I also don't buy into the whole "Melbourne isn't a good gauge of performance", yes the track is a street track and a bit unique, but the order will likely be the same this weekend.

It sounds negative, but I'm hoping we can just keep scoring decent points up until Barcelona through reliability and decent pace, and hoping one team/driver doesn't dominate. Then if by that point we're not up there with the leaders (likely Mercedes) in terms of pace, it's hard to see we can win either title without consistent mechanical DNF's from them.

Good aim for this weekend would be being the 2nd fastest team behind Mercedes, I'm a bit concerned as at the first race Kimi was being legitimately attacked by Toro Rosso's during the race.

[ferrari4life]

Man I feel like complaining just to get some people riled up on here. LOL...
At least it keeps the pill manufacturing company in business.

Anyway Forza Ferrari hope this is a turning of the page.

[anialonso]

Both Ferrari's out quite early..
Seems they have a busy schedule..!!

[FerrariFanBoii]

Apparently McLaren have a new nose? According to the radio, looks like the Force India's,

[RedPassion]

any good streams?

[tohellandback]

Alonso - 1.42.930 quickest so far.... Kimi still to do a lap


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[anialonso]

Alonso fastest but the car looks quite a handful..

[tohellandback]

Now 1.41.923 but ferrari looking twitchy at corners... Kimi 9th so far.... Lotus again stalled on the track hydraulic issues


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[radosav]

rosberg looks fast

[radosav]

A ha ha ha , Alonso looks so confident... ...confident that car isn't good!

[bondilad]

1 Button, 315km/h
2 Massa, 314km/h
3 Bottas, 313km/h
4 Magnussen, 311km/h
5 Hulkenberg, 310km/h

EDD STRAW: "Interesting to note that Alonso has set the fastest time in sector two - 34.291s. No long straights in that part of the lap, which is mostly corners including the spectacular Turn 5/6 left/right sweep. Rosberg is fastest in the first and last sector."

We are still lacking to speed??

[tohellandback]

Alonso relaxed in pit without driving grears... Are we super confident....???

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[FF1]

speed trap shows mercedes power around 315/kmh and ferrari only 304/km/h and alonso still fastest. any light on this

[ALO]

are teams taking it easy on engines with reduced number of laps? so many P's on the leader board

[ALO]

at least our engine sounds the best

[Hermann]

speed trap shows mercedes power around 315/kmh and ferrari only 304/km/h and alonso still fastest. any light on this

Better driver

[FF1]

Better driver

+1000

but i hope this race we see a more power full ferrari and a podium finsih for both drivers

[bondilad]

Better driver

Couldn't have asked for a better reply.

[ALO]

nice save by kimi

[varun]

Kimi up into 3rd

[ALO]

nice to be at the top ...I know its just FP1 tho

[fronaldo]

I think our straight line speed is improving..Kimi just lost 0.2 s in the last sector after lost 0.5 s in 2nd sector during his 2nd best time..

[tohellandback]

So less running due to restrictions on engine.... Its killing the fun...

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[vcs316]

Prac One: Hamilton edges Raikkonen

Hamilton retired from the season-opening Australian GP with an engine issue but it proved to be a quick fix for Mercedes and the Brit was back in his W05 with the exact same engine at Sepang.

Putting in the laps, 19 in total, the Mercedes driver clocked a 1:40.691 to beat Raikkonen by 0.152.

It was a much improved session for the Ferrari driver, who revealed he was happier with his F14T's balance on Friday morning.

Nico Rosberg was third for Mercedes, finishing ahead of the McLarens of Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen.

The latter had a minor issue that led to him switching off his engine, however, with the marshals help he was pushed back into the pits and was soon back in the action.

Jean-Eric Vergne continued Toro Rosso's early season form, finishing sixth quickest, 0.711s down, while Sebastian Vettel was a further 0.121s down.

Nico Hulkenberg and Felipe Massa were the final two drivers to get within a second of Hamilton's P1 time while Valtteri Bottas completed the top ten.

There were more issues at Lotus, who covered just six laps between both drivers.

Romain Grosjean stopped out on track with a battery issue but did make it back out in the final five minutes while Pastor Maldonado, after a lengthy period in the pits following his installation lap, pulled his E22 into the pits with smoke coming out the back of the car.

Meanwhile, Sergio Perez also managed just two laps in his Force India while Kamui Kobayashi covered five before Caterham "found a problem with his energy store so it's floor off to change it so he can run again in FP2."

Times
01 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:40.691 19 laps
02 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1:40.843 +0.152 20 laps
03 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:41.028 +0.337 19 laps
04 Jenson Button McLaren 1:41.111 +0.420 20 laps
05 Kevin Magnussen McLaren 1:41.274 +0.583 18 laps
06 Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 1:41.402 +0.711 15 laps
07 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:41.523 +0.832 9 laps
08 Nico Hulkenberg Force India 1:41.642 +0.951 19 laps
09 Felipe Massa Williams 1:41.686 +0.995 23 laps
10 Valtteri Bottas Williams 1:41.830 +1.139 22 laps
11 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:41.923 +1.232 14 laps
12 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull 1:42.117 +1.426 20 laps
13 Adrian Sutil Sauber 1:42.365 +1.674 21 laps
14 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso 1:42.869 +2.178 21 laps
15 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber 1:42.904 +2.213 23 laps
16 Jules Bianchi Marussia 1:43.825 +3.134 18 laps
17 Marcus Ericsson Caterham 1:45.775 +5.084 24 laps
18 Max Chilton Marussia 1:46.911 +6.220 10 laps
19 Kamui Kobayashi Caterham 1:51.180 +10.489 5 laps
20 Romain Grosjean Lotus No time 4 laps
21 Sergio Perez Force India No time 2 laps
22 Pastor Maldonado Lotus No time 2 laps

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[Stormsearcher]

Errr... what the heck happened?

I woke up to see Alonso topping the time sheets. Put off the Tv to get to work.. here i am checking online and he is 11th??????? Are we facing a problem with his car? different tyres? different programme? something...??

[roddick_andy]

Errr... what the heck happened?

I woke up to see Alonso topping the time sheets. Put off the Tv to get to work.. here i am checking online and he is 11th??????? Are we facing a problem with his car? different tyres? different programme? something...??

Kimi was just better mate.