Posted on 9th May 2015
Yesterday afternoon in Barcelona, Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets at the second practice session in FP2 ahead of Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel and his team mate Nico Rosberg.
Before the start of the session, Nico Rosberg received an official reprimand from the stewards regarding his pit lane infraction during FP1. In a statement from Race Control and the stewards have stated the following about giving Rosberg a reprimand today as follows:-
'The driver crossed the line separating the pit entry from the track and did not stay to the right of the bollard as required in the Race Director's event notes.'
In the first hour of the session, Lotus driver Romain Grosjean suffered an explosion of his engine cover on the start/finish straight that left debris onto the track and the session being red flagged until the debris was taken off the track. Luckily Grosjean wasn't hurt as a result of this. Also at the end of the session, Manor driver Will Stevens went off the circuit and onto the gravel trap but was luckily able to get back to the pits.
But it was Lewis Hamilton who topped the timesheets with a laptime of 1.26.852 ahead of Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel in second place who was 0.408 seconds off his pace but was ahead of his team mate Nico Rosberg in third place who was 0.7 seconds off the pace of Hamilton.
Vettel's team mate Kimi Raikkonen ended the session in fourth place ahead of the Red Bull of Daniil Kvyat in fifth place, Max Verstappen in sixth place and Jenson Button in seventh place. The Williams of Valtteri Bottas finished the session in eighth place ahead of Carlos Sainz Jr in ninth place and his team mate Felipe Massa who rounded off the top ten finishers.
Fernando Alonso ended the session in eleventh place ahead of Romain Grosjean despite everything that happened during the session in twelfth place, Daniel Ricciardo in thirteenth place, Pastor Maldonado in fourteenth place and Felipe Nasr in fifteenth place.
As we head into the latter stages of the grid, Marcus Ericsson ended the session in sixteenth place ahead of the Force India drivers of Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio who finished the session in seventeenth and eighteenth places and the two Manor F1 drivers of Will Stevens and Roberto Merhi who ended the session in nineteenth and twentieth places.
The classification of FP1 for the Spanish GP is as follows:
1. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1.26.852
2. Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari, 0.408s
3. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, 0.764s
4. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 0.928s
5. Daniil Kvyat, Red Bull-Renault, 1.091s
6. Max Verstappen, Toro Rosso, 1.165s
7. Jenson Button, McLaren-Honda, 1.642s
8. Valtteri Bottas, Williams-Mercedes, 1.673s
9. Carlos Sainz Jr, Toro Rosso, 1.822s
10. Felipe Massa, Williams-Mercedes, 1.860s
11. Fernando Alonso, McLaren-Honda, 1.871s
12. Romain Grosjean, Lotus-Mercedes, 2.234s
13. Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull-Renault, 2.246s
14. Pastor Maldonado, Lotus-Mercedes, 2.305s
15. Felipe Nasr, Sauber-Ferrari, 2.481s
16. Marcus Ericsson, Sauber-Ferrari, 2.508s
17. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India-Mercedes, 2.745s
18. Sergio Perez, Force India-Mercedes, 2.855s
19. Will Stevens, Manor-Marussia, 5.077s
20. Roberto Merhi, Manor-Marussia, 5.899s
Sarah Jones- @jonesy_laaa
